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Hired Actors, Paid Media: Big Tech Has Already Dumped $8M Into Hochul’s Car Insurance Ploy
Buckets of cash and ads with professional actors are boosting Uber and Hochul's cause.
MTA Demands Albany Deal With Toll Evasion Already
A new analysis of toll evasion found that the amount of money owed by drivers who don't pay paper toll invoices has more than doubled since 2022, from $147 million in unpaid tolls to nearly $350 million.
Hochul’s Car Insurance Plan Blows Fraud Way Out Of Proportion: Stats
Gov. Hochul's proposal to lower car insurance premiums is built on suspected fraud. But a body of evidence reveals that there really is very little.
New MTA Accessibility Advisory Panel Guidelines Bar Members from ADA Lawsuits
Disability justice advocates the Advisory Committee for Transit Accessibility accused the MTA of marginalizing the panel, which ex-transit boss Andy Byford created in 2019.
Thursday Headlines: Train Meets Canal Edition
Upstate New York needs high speed rail. And more news.
Trump’s Funding Freeze Has Derailed Transit, Undermining Growth and Economic Opportunity For All Americans: Report
American cities used to have some of the longest per-capita rail networks in the world. Not anymore.
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