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Writers' Theatre releases seasonal casting
Writers Theatre in Glecoe has announced some of its seasonal casting for 2013-14. - "Port Authority" will feature Patrick Clear, Rob Fenton and John Hoogenakker. - "Hedda Gabler" will star Kate Fry and feature Scott Parkinson, Chaon Cross, Sean... -
Pennsylvania House debates mass transit funding, which one lawmaker likens to 'welfare'
HARRISBURG — In the last 16 years, the number of people riding a LANTA bus has risen 60 percent to 6 million. That number is expected to keep going up if the Lehigh Valley's population climbs more than 10 percent over the next seven years as...Tags: Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Interior Policy, Mike Turzai, Politics, Easton (Northampton, Pennsylvania)
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United flight disrupted after passenger screams, 'You've all been poisoned'
Tribune staff and wire reportsNEWARK, N.J. -- The FBI and law enforcement officials met a plane at Newark Liberty International Airport Monday after a passenger became disruptive during a nearly 15-hour flight, yelling that everyone on board had been poisoned. "We're all being...Tags: Tina Susman, Justice System, Police Investigations, Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Accidents
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Pocono charter school founder admits tax evasion
SCRANTON — The Rev. Dennis Bloom, the embattled founder of a Pocono charter school, admitted Thursday in federal court he failed to report a $180,000 transfer of property from his Coolbaugh Township church into his own name. Bloom, a former police...Tags: Justice System, Religion and Belief, Legal Services, Services and Shopping, U.S. Department of Education
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Port authority paid surcharge for federal lobbyist
Daily PressEvery time the Virginia Port Authority paid its $10,000-a-month federal lobbying bills, $1,500 charges went to a middleman. New details about the lobbying arrangement, including the monthly rate and a 15-percent surcharge, emerged in documents made...Tags: U.S. Congress, Justice System, Science and Technology, Freedom of Information Laws, Technology
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Ports to close for 4 hours Wednesday
State-run ports will shut down for four hours Wednesday morning as management speaks to rank-and-file union workers. The meeting is in Portsmouth at Willett Hall, 8 a.m. to noon. According to a news release issued by the Virginia Port Authority, pier-...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), International Longshoremen's Association, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia)
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Toll increases for Susquehanna crossing hard to swallow [Editorial]
Get ready to help pay for road construction elsewhere in Maryland. The tolls are going up at the state Transportation Authority's two Susquehanna River bridges – I-95 and Route 40 – and it's pretty clear the money will be used to subsidize...Tags: Commuting, Washington, DC, Travel, Hudson River, Trips and Vacations
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No. Virginia airports authority says lobbying ban doesn't apply to it
Bob Calhoun, a former state lawmaker said last week the Virginia Port Authority violated the spirit of a lobbying ban he helped craft in 1994. Calhoun for seven years worked as the state lobbyist for another Virginia-based transportation authority,...Tags: U.S. Congress, Washington, DC, Freedom of Information Laws, Politics, Lobbying
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Legislators say port lobbying work violated spirit of state law
Daily PressA current and a former state lawmaker said the Virginia Port Authority's decade-long federal lobbying activity runs afoul of a 1994 bill barring agencies in the commonwealth from hiring lobbyists. The law states employing an outside lobbyist "by an...Tags: Laws, Judges, Politics, James City County, Lobbying
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Port Authority board was in the dark on federal lobbyist
Virginia Port Authority officials said Thursday that the agency's governing board was unaware until last week of a relationship the agency has had with a federal lobbyist. A contract between lobbying shop Federal Advocates Inc., and a port authority...
Tags: U.S. Congress, National Government, Government, Regional Authority, Norfolk Southern Corporation
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Port Authority's No. 2 official steps down
Daily PressJ.J. "Jeff" Keever, the second in command at the Virginia Port Authority, left the agency this week after almost a decade of work. Keever, who handled government relations in Washington and Richmond for the port authority as its deputy executive...Tags: Science and Technology, Regional Authority, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Politics, Lobbying
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Walter E. Woodford Jr., highway engineer
Walter E. Woodford Jr., a state highway engineer and executive who supervised road construction projects from Ocean City to Garrett County and headed the building of the second span of the Bay Bridge in 1973, died of congestive heart failure May 22 at the...
Tags: Ocean City, Science and Technology, Travel, Garrett County, Anglicanism
Jun 17, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jun 17, 2013
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
Jun 18, 2013
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Jun 13, 2013
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Jun 13, 2013
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Jun 11, 2013
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Jun 11, 2013
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Jun 9, 2013
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May 30, 2013
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Jun 1, 2013
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May 31, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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