Earlier this month, the U.S. government announced it will extradite three Tren de Aragua members to Chile for their involvement in the case.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed ato help fund New York City’s subway and buses. She also opened a major new source of transit revenue by implementing
for drivers in Manhattan, but it remains to be seen whether the new tolls will survive threats from President Donald Trump’s administration to shut them down.., and numerous other transit-dependent cities have also been scrambling to avert major cuts.“No funding without reform” has been a common mantra among Illinois legislators working to hash out a solution for Chicago’s transit crisis before leaving Springfield on Saturday at the end of their
Technically, the money doesn’t run out until the end of the year, and there will likely be a veto session that could provide another shot at an 11th-hour rescue. But transportation officials say they’ll have to start laying out the specific cuts next week if the funding doesn’t come through by then.“It’s not a light switch we can just turn on or off,” said Leanne Redden, executive director of the Regional Transportation Authority, which oversees planning and funding for the area’s transit agencies. “Even if we find funding at a future point, it’s a slow process to kind of unwind the unwinding.”
So far, there have been no major breakthroughs on funding, although a compromise surfaced this week to create a new umbrella organization that, among other things, would ensure the various agencies work in unison rather than as competitors for the same customers.
“They should just be able to get on and go where they want to go, and that has not been happening with the governance that we’ve had up to now,”Entertainment and politics collided through the summer and fall after Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee, culminating in the vice president
in her campaign’s closing days.Rudolph playing Harris on “SNL” wasn’t the year’s only throwback —
returned to red carpets with passion projects (one a modern Roman parable and the other about cereal), while Heidi Klum and her husbandfor her Halloween extravaganza.