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Local Voices: Naperville, Lisle and Aurora
Letters to the editor from Naperville, Lisle and Aurora residents. Speed risks The proposed change in Illinois' speed limit from 65 to 70 miles per hour on tollways and interstate highways increases the risk of damage. The approximately 8 percent...
Tags: Elections, American Academy of Pediatrics, Wireless Technology, Crime, Law and Justice, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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After flight delays, will cancer move Congress to act?
Reuters* Fiscal needs pile up but few seen as acute as flight delays * Congress may find it difficult to say no to cancer patients By David Lawder WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - As Congress sifts through a growing number of requests for targeted relief from...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Renee Ellmers, University of Alabama at Birmingham, National Parks, Head Start
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Five questions for Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee cut his teeth on public-private partnerships 26 years ago as a Lehman Brothers executive in charge of financing projects in Asia. He put together a consortium of local investors to build a $1.8 billion, 12-mile toll road in Bangkok....
Tags: Government, Maryland Department of Transportation, Regional Authority, Labor Legislation, Chesapeake Bay Bridge
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FAA won't close air traffic control towers at small airports
The 149 air traffic control towers that were slated to close this summer because of the federal sequestration will remain open until at least September, federal officials said Friday. The Federal Aviation Administration said legislation approved by...
Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Air Transportation Delays, Transportation Security Administration, Layoffs and Downsizing, Budget Control Act of 2011
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Federal budget cuts put hurt on South Florida's feeding programs
Looming federal budget cuts are putting a big squeeze on programs in South Florida that feed seniors. In Palm Beach County, about 240 daily breakfasts served to the elderly were cut about two weeks ago after $147,000 was lopped off a county program's...
Tags: National Weather Service, Broward County, U.S. Congress, Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting
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Kansas control towers to stay open
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsControl towers at five airfields in Kansas will stay open now that the Federal Aviation Administration has cancelled plans to close 149 similar towers across the country. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that control towers at airfields in Topeka,...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Manhattan (New York City)
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FAA Moves to Wind Down Contract Weather Observers
Channel 2 NewsMore than 100 contract weather observers working for the Federal Aviation Administration could be out of a job in September 2013. The FAA says it's looking at transferring the observers' duties to certified air traffic controllers at the end of the fiscal...Tags: Weather Reports, Air Transportation Industry, Weather
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Boeing CEO says 787 grounding didn't have big financial impact
Tribune reporterJust days after Boeing's 787 Dreamliner was officially cleared to fly by U.S. regulators, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney said the plane's 100-day grounding did not and will not have a significant financial impact on the Chicago-based aircraft maker. McNerney,...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Boeing Co., Japan, Field Museum of Natural History, Manufacturing and Engineering
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FAA grounds flights at Houston's Bush airport after shots -media
ReutersHOUSTON, May 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a ground stop for all flights from Bush Intercontinental Airport after shots were fired in Terminal B, KTRK-TV reported on Thursday. Police and airport security closed the...Tags: Air Transportation Industry
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Md. airport towers appear safe from federal cuts
Five air traffic control towers in Maryland that had been scheduled to shut down in June as a result of federal budget cuts are now expected to remain open, lawmakers said Wednesday — easing fears that the closures could back up flights at BWI...
Tags: Barbara A. Mikulski, Salisbury (Wicomico, Maryland), Budget Control Act of 2011, Air Transportation Industry, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport
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Obama quietly signs bill easing air travel delays
ReutersBy Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) - Without comment or fanfare, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed legislation sparing U.S. air travel from the effects of across-the-board spending cuts that had caused delays and stirred public ire....Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Washington, DC, U.S. Congress, Travel, Barack Obama
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Congress passes bill to reduce flight delays; Obama will sign it
WASHINGTON -- Seeking to end flight delays that jammed airports nationwide, the House approved legislation Friday that will stop the furlough of air-traffic controllers, sending the bill to President Obama. Final passage of the quickly arranged...Tags: U.S. Congress, Steny Hoyer, Air Transportation Delays, Labor Legislation, Jay Carney
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