May 26 2012 - Occupy Little Rock takes to the streets
BUSTED: Greg Deckelman of Occupy Little Rock gets ticketed for obstructing traffic. Occupy Little Rock marched from its camp at Fourth and Ferry to City Hall on Clinton Avenue/Markham Street this afternoon. Some civil disobedience was promised. David Koon is following along and so I don't have full details yet, but it would appear the disobedience was walking in the street rather than on the ... |
May 26 2012 - Big East Baseball Tournament | Louisville hoping for another 'dog pile'
The University of Louisville baseball team had its chance to celebrate winning a share of its third Big East Conference title in four years on Sunday. The Cardinals have a tradition of doing a 'dog pile' to celebrate a conference championship, and they did that on the bus trip home from Pittsburgh when they heard St.John's had lost to Seton Hall, giving UofL a first-place tie with the Red Storm. |
May 26 2012 - Normal OKs parking deck fees
NORMAL — Some Amtrak passengers could get free long-term parking, uptown business owners and employees will continue receiving a discounted parking deck rate and patrons of the new City Hall offices will get a free first-hour of parking under parking policies approved Monday night by the City Council. |
May 26 2012 - Columbia Mayor Bob McDavid to Reveal New Transit Initiative
COLUMBIA - Mayor Bob McDavid plans to reveal a new transit initiative for the city of Columbia Thursday morning at city hall. The initiative, named "FastCAT," follows multiple public forums about reforming Columbia's current bus system. |
May 25 2012 - Fired bus driver challenging Pa. school drugs law
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A fired school bus driver has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn a Pennsylvania law that bans people with drug convictions from working for public school districts or their contractors. |
May 24 2012 - Slash's unfinished business
Guns N' Roses' former guitarist talks Rock Hall of Fame induction, his new solo album, 'Apocalyptic Love,' and chances of a GNR reunion (none). There are things that Slash just doesn't want to talk about. And the timing was definitely not right a few weeks ago as the guitarist was preparing for a trip to Cleveland for his induction with Guns N' Roses into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. |
May 19 2012 - School board honors model bus students
Riding a school bus can be challenging for students sometimes, and one of the toughest jobs in the school system is that of a bus driver, say officials who run the system. |
May 18 2012 - New synthetic drug in Virginia
A new synthetic drug is being used and abused by kids right here in Virginia. Experts told NBC12 Amped is a stimulant and a hallucinogen. But here's the thing: Right now, the white powder legal. |
May 18 2012 - John Hall: A historian of bush league baseball
On the first night of July 1951, the Carthage Cubs shuffled onto rickety buses that would take them from Jaycee Park to the YMCA in Pittsburg, Kan. Their manager barked at them for losing both games of a doubleheader to the Pittsburg Browns. |
May 17 2012 - Nashua eighth-grader wins national recognition from C-SPAN at City Hall
NASHUA – A colorful campaign bus from C-SPAN took up two parking spaces in front of City Hall Wednesday morning, as the network rolled into Nashua from Washington, D.C., to recognize Nashua eighth-grade student Deepika Kurup. Kurup, a student at Fairgrounds Middle School, was named an honorable mention in C-SPAN’s 2012 StudentCam competition for her brief documentary, “The Bill of Rights in ... |
May 16 2012 - Way To Go! Commuter Challenge kicks off Monday in Vermont
Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger unloads a bicycle from a bus rack Thursday morning on North Winooski Avenue. The mayor engaged in a “multi-modal tour” of the city in honor of Vermont Way to Go! Commuter Challenge. |
May 15 2012 - TOWN HALL: Kill FREX, but not too fast (poll)
The Front Range Express is almost certainly doomed. It has survived the budgetary guillotine for years and further stays of execution seem unlikely, at best. Still, the most compassionate advocates for saving the life of this bus service between Colorado Springs and Denver will not give up. Among... |
May 15 2012 - No students hurt in bus accident
LULA - No one on a Hall County school bus suffered injuries in a traffic accident in Lula Thursday afternoon. According to Hall County Transportation Director Jewell Armour, only one student and the bus driver were on board when the accident happened. |
May 15 2012 - Broward County vows to help communities without a city
Unincorporated areas languish years after failed annexation deadline You could call it Broward's 32nd city -- the one with no city hall, the one whose officials are usually busy doing something else. The one without much money. |
May 13 2012 - Union challenges defeat of election for Waukegan bus service workers
Union officials say they will challenge what appears to be a narrow defeat of a campaign to organize Waukegan school bus drivers and aides under Teamsters Local 777. A push to unionize employees of Illinois Central School Bus lost 90 to 86 on Thursday. But Teamsters representative Elizabeth Gonzalez said nine “challenged” ballots, which contained unspecified discrepancies, could change the ... |
May 13 2012 - Walk or bike for a cause
WALK, BIKE, carpool or ride the bus - and do it 4,000 times between Monday and the end of the year. That's Commute Green New Hampshire's statewide challenge, which began registering participants this week. Participants in the program, now in its second year, can register as part of a team or individually and log their trips online. The goal, organizers say, is to replace 4,000 single-occupant ... |
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