BOSTON – Late-night bus and subway service likely will be ended early next year, as members of the Fiscal and Management Control Board look for ways to cut costs at the deficit-ridden Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
The $14-per-passenger cost was a chief reason cited for curtailing the service by members of the oversight panel. A solid majority of the control board agreed with chairman Joseph Aiello that there should be a "discontinuance." The service provided a way for weekend theater, concert, restaurant and bar goers to get home or to a hotel or their cars after a night on the town.
(JNS.org) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that the ongoing wave of Palestinian terror attacks in Israel is a "justified popular uprising."
The violence has come due to "the despair of young Palestinians over the lack of a political horizon for the two-state solution, the [Israeli] invasion of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the continuation of settlement building and military checkpoint deployment," Abbas said in a speech in Ramallah on Monday.
