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Last night the MTA said a fare hike by January is a near certainty. This will be the third fare hike since 2008, raising the monthly unlimited pass from $89 to $104. Meanwhile, the MTA continues to pass major service cuts. But what's really appalling here is how much transit workers get paid. We're republishing data from SeeThroughNY showing that 8,074 MTA employees earned $100,000 last year. Fifty MTA employees earned more than $200,000 last year. And salaries are rising.

Meet Edward G. Rendell, former Democratic National Committee chairman and a tax-and-spend liberal clone of Hillary Clinton. Is the governor of Pennsylvania subject to random drug testing? I'm beginning to worry about Ed Rendell. I think he's on something. How else do you explain his recent end-of-the-year news conference where he proclaimed a successful 2005 for his administration? I'm not sure Rendell is living on the same planet as 12 million other Pennsylvanians. Rendell appears to be the governor of the state of dementia. Rendell, the former Philadelphia mayor, Democratic National Committee chairman and supporter of Hillary Clinton, has completed...