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Future, hopefully, is east side access. With additional tracks, which the railroads planning to install the governor announced, youre going to have the capacity to move equipment if there is a delay to another portion of the railroad. Tom pender fast, chair and ceo of the mta, had to say when asked about the dissatisfaction of riders. The first half of this year the performance was relatively well,ing but in a relatively short period of time, five or six weeks, its had a repetitive series of inc...

Forecasters say well see the worst of it tonight into tomorrow. We have Team Coverage for you. Lets first go out to Rick Leventhal live on long island. Rick . Gretchen we can tell you the conditions have been deteriorating pretty rapidly. When we got here at 7 30 this morning, the snow was already falling but the l. I. E. Was completely clear. In the last hour or so, it has become covered. Traffic obviously very slow at this hour, seeing a lot of brakelights. A lot of people hopefully headed hom...

By Suzanne Pender CHAMPION ploughmen proved their skill and expertise are down to so much more than machinery as they turned the clock back to compete using…

Highlighting the diverse, talented faculty members who serve the University of Central Missouri, performing artists representing the UCM academic areas of Music, Theatre and Dance return to Hart Recital Hall for their annual season opener, the Provost’s Faculty Showcase, at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 28.

AUTUMN leaves on the quiet back roads around Ardattin were rustled when more than 40 tractors took to the highways and byways to raise funds for a local cause.

mysteriously appears at his ranch from new jersey. and also there are denials. its a very complex story, lies, and the money is laundered to, i think, the publisher of one of the washington papers, i think "the washington post," actually. so it unravels. this is -- its difficult to know what harding knew about this, whether he knew this was one of the scandals that was a problem and which weighed his mind down and caused him to die. this all gets dumped in coolidges lap. he had nothing...

election committee write books about them? >> it all starts one ste a just about presidents and presidential elections, and i looked at that one, and i started calculating the math. i was like, 1964, you had one president involved, lyndon johnson. mostly you would get three. youd get kennedy and nixon in 1960 and 1968, and you would get reagan, so you might get threw, usually get two. the 1920s, you have six. you have six in contention in one way or another. several people have said, b...

>> host: david pietrusza. what was it about the presidential elections that made you write books about them? >> guest: it all starts one step at a time, and the 1920 election, i had been playing around with factoids and just about presidents, and presidential elections, and i looked at that one, and i started calculating the math and it was like 1961, you had really -- or 64, you had one president, lyndon johnson, and mostly you would get three. you would get kennedy and nixon in 1960,...

and i started calculating amount. 1961 or 1964 -- you had one president, lyndon johnson, you get kennedy, nixon in 1960, in 1968 we did nixon. you would get reagan. you might get three, usually get to. in 1920, you have six. >> six u.s. presidents? >> six in contention in one way or another. as several people have sent. yes, i know that. but if he is not dead, he is the nominee and the president of the united states. he sends his secretary of state to the convention to stampede the con...