Taxi medallion owners facing a new deadline for making their vehicles wheelchair accessible by next March say conversion costs could take cabbies off the road. Drivers and taxi industry workers pushed back at a Taxi & Limousine Commission hearing on Thursday following a federal judge’s August order that all new yellow taxis must be wheelchair […]
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Equipment malfunctioned inside the mine in Cripple Creek, west of Colorado Springs, but it did not collapse, according to the Teller County Sheriff’s Office
Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system.A group of students from across New Jersey is pushing to lower the voting age to 16 in school board elections. Now, top officials including Gov. Phil Murphy …
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley said he would seek to have King suspended from office.
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Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system.Two months in, Philadelphia’s year-round school program is blossoming, officials say. But so far, the effort seems focused on giving more families acce…
NC county elections directors have been seeing high turnover. But some have started the job only weeks before Election Day 2024.
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ITHACA, N.Y. — A bus carrying six people crashed into a tree on West Lake Road in the town of Dryden on Wednesday afternoon, killing one of its passengers. Tompkins […]
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The Free Land Holder Committee says historic treaties and deeds give it ownership of the land in the San Juan National Forest north of Mancos
Dreena Reed has Medicare coverage, so she wasn’t personally affected when Textron Aviation cut off striking workers’ health insurance. But she’s worried about her daughter’s family. Her son-in-law is also on strike, and the company-sponsored health insurance covers him, Reed’s daughter and their kids. “That just goes to show that they’re not caring about their […]
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ITHACA, N.Y. — Workers at GreenStar Food Co+op’s Collegetown and Dewitt Mall locations voted on Monday to unionize with Workers United. Of the 26 eligible voters, 12 votes were cast […]
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