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The National Carriers Conference Committee (NCCC) announced Dec. 30 that members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) have ratified a national collective bargaining agreement covering more than 12,000 freight rail employees. With this ratification, approximately 95% of the union-represented freight rail employees at railroads participating in...Transit Briefs: NYMTA, SMART, HART, CTA, Santa Clara VTA
NYMTA Both MTA Metro-North Railroad and MTA Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) have broken post-pandemic ridership records in December, according to MTA. The week of Dec. 15 was the highest post-pandemic ridership recovery week for Metro-North, with 827,015 total riders representing a record 88% of an average pre-pandemic week in December 2019, the agency reported. The weekend of...
Illegal streaming grew into an organized, profitable, and dangerous industry
Rising streaming prices are pushing more viewers toward illegal options. Movies, TV shows, and live sports are now spread across multiple platforms, and keeping up with all of them is expensive. When something is easy to access, works smoothly, and feels low risk, people adopt it. Over time, it stops feeling like an exception and starts feeling normal. Understanding the...
What consumers expect from data security
Security teams spend years building controls around data protection, then a survey asks consumers a simple question about responsibility and the answer lands close to home. Most people believe they are in charge of their own data privacy, and they want systems that support that belief, according to the 2025 Data Privacy Research from the Software & Information Industry...
Duplicati: Free, open-source backup client
Duplicati is an open source backup client that creates encrypted, incremental, compressed backup sets and sends them to cloud storage services or remote file servers. What the project is and where it runs Duplicati operates as a client side application designed to back up files and folders from endpoints and servers. It runs locally, collects selected data, packages it into...![<![CDATA[JP Morgan 2026 Preview: AstraZeneca Building Its Pipeline]]>](https://theindustryexpert.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/e91121823df2bacdd1a0403310f34284ac223139-1280x720-2-800x450.png)
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Q&A: Outgoing Cal State Dominguez Hills President Thomas A. Parham
Thomas A. Parham’s seven-year stint as president of California State University, Dominguez Hills, is coming to an end. During his tenure, the campus made progress in graduating and retaining students, though it fell short of some goals and remained below the average across Cal State. Dominguez Hills established a place on national college rankings for social mobility and...
11 new laws that will impact California schools in 2026
California students are likely to see fewer cell phones and more gender-neutral bathrooms next year as new state education laws go into effect. Protecting students from immigration raids was a priority for state legislators this year, resulting in several new laws, including one prohibiting school staff from allowing immigration officers to enter campuses or providing...
