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Learning to use pepper spray would be a good first step toward safety for Milwaukee County bus drivers, say drivers union officials. But if that doesn’t work, officials say they’re ready to talk about something more powerful — even firearms. Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. offered pepper-spray training last week in response to a videotaped attack on a bus driver for which Brandon T. Jackson, 24, of Milwaukee was charged over the weekend. Clarke also supports driver enclosures on buses. But allowing drivers to carry guns would be a huge leap, Clarke said. He was thinking more along...

Lately I have heard from some of you, asking about the Corridor. Most folks believe it is over, dead, gone from our beautiful East Texas. I have been watching our government's actions on this subject. Did you know that in TxDOT's cover letter to the federal government it states they will only use existing highways to build their corridor? Did you know that TxDOT also stated that it may need to build in non-existing paths also, some time in the future. Citizens, I write you today to make sure you understand that the corridor issue in Trinity County has not...

The bus strike was quiet on all fronts Friday -- until the Minnesota Taxpayers League lobbed a grenade into the battlefield. "Transit just isn't that important to the smooth functioning of the Twin Cities transportation system," said league President David Strom. "That's the obvious conclusion to be drawn from the lack of chaos engendered by the bus-system strike." In a community already debating the bus strike and the issue of health-care costs, the comment added a new political dimension to the strike by the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 against Metro Transit, operated by the Metropolitan Council. Strom, whose organization...