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MTA failed to achieve cost-saving reforms, audit alleges

Years after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced reforms intended to cut down on purchasing costs, the famously high-spending agency has little to show for them, according to a new audit by the state comptroller. The “Transformation plan” approved by the MTA board in 2019 called for consolidating its procurement practices in hopes of slimming the

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Charles Dolan, HBO founder who built Cablevision, dies at 98

Charles Dolan, the pay-television pioneer who won the first cable-TV franchise in Manhattan, founded HBO and later built Cablevision Systems into the fifth-largest U.S. cable company, has died. He was 98. Dolan died Saturday of natural causes, surrounded by his loved ones, Newsday reported, citing a statement from his family shared by a spokesperson. Dolan

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