Expected Federal Relief For MTA Will Avert Drastic Service Cuts
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With Democrats’ passage of the $2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill in the Senate over the weekend, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ensured that it included $6.5 billion for the MTA. While that sum is still short of the $8 billion the MTA projected it would need to get through 2024, the agency expects it’s enough to stave off the worst doomsday scenarios it had been projecting as recently as December.
“We will avoid drastic service cuts on subways, buses, Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road as a result of this federal funding in President Biden s American Rescue Plan, and we also will avoid layoffs and furloughs of thousands of our colleagues,” MTA Chairman Pat Foye said Monday morning, speaking on WCBS. “It s great news for MTA customers and employees.”
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Inside the mad dash for New York mayoral endorsements
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Andrew Yang was mulling a run for New York City mayor last fall when he reached out to a labor union with proven political clout to introduce himself.
During the chat the president of the Hotel Trades Council, Rich Maroko, let slip that his daughters supported Yang’s unconventional presidential bid, so the mayoral hopeful decided to surprise them in December with a brief video extolling their father and wishing them a happy holiday, according to someone familiar with the recording.
Election filings have started for village and school boards for the 2021 election.
Lindsay Light, chief deputy county clerk and supervisor of elections with the Vermilion County Clerkâs Office, which only accepts school board and regional board filings, reported an âaverage, as expectedâ Monday morning kick-off to election filings for candidates running for board seats.
Those who filed early Monday included: Westville: Michael Acord, Darren White, LeAnn Gallion and Shawn Bennett; Salt Fork; Jared Fritz and Seth Smoot; Potomac: Lucas Esteppe and Kristi Hawker; Oakwood: Mark Janesky and Bob Linn; Hoopeston: Sharon Zorns and Deborah Klaber; and Georgetown-Ridge Farm: Hilah OâNeal, Greg Emmert and Cassidy Spesard.