Tag: MTA

REAL STORY OF OSAMA RAID SLOW TO EMERGE

webadmin | May 8, 2011 | 0 Comments
REAL STORY OF OSAMA RAID SLOW TO EMERGE

“Early reports on SEAL raid also incorrect”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday,May 8, 2011 The Fog of War, the Prussian military analyst Carl von Clausewitz famously called it. And that was a pretty good term. The idea was that, in the heat of battle, the details of what just happened could get awfully confused. Who shot [...]

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LIRR FIRST COMMAND: DON’T CATCH FIRE

Ellis | August 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
LIRR FIRST COMMAND: DON’T CATCH FIRE

“LIRR’s command upgrade will make ‘rail’ difference” , Newsday, August 29, 2010  How ’bout this for Command No. 1 at the LIRR’s new state-of-the-art Command and Control Center? Don’t. Catch. Fire. Unplanned conflagrations like the one that knocked out a 1913 switching room at Jamaica station can be truly catastrophic. Nearly a week after Monday’s cable [...]

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TAKE MY SEAT, PLEASE! POLITE IN THE SUBWAY

Zo-Edit | June 25, 2009 | 0 Comments
TAKE MY SEAT, PLEASE! POLITE IN THE SUBWAY

“Etiquette Enforcement,” Ellis Henican Blog, “The Huffington Post,” June 24, 2009 The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has officially decided we’re not polite enough. They should know, right? These are the people who have done so much to coarsen the local language with expressions like “The train will be moving shortly” (yeah, right!) and “I have no [...]

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