The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is scrambling to address acute safety and operational challenges while anticipating a long-term funding crisis. What happens in Boston could have lessons for other big-city transit systems.
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If approved, residents would vote on their fourth bond program in less than two decades. The $1 billion program would help pay for better streets and city infrastructure, including $150 million for housing.
Five unions representing hundreds of thousands of health-care workers across California are attacking a legislative deal that would delay expansions on seismic safety standards to increase workers’ minimum wage.
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The Transgender Advisory Council of Equality Utah’s Sue Robbins, regarding the Utah High School Activities Association’s secretive investigation into a female athlete after questions arose about whether the girl was transgender. The UHSAA and the girl’s high school determined that she was, indeed, female after reviewing her records dating back to kindergarten. The questions were raised by the parents of two girls that the investigated athlete had defeated in competition. (Associated Press — Aug. 19, 2022)
