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	Massport's unsure wall - The Boston Globe
		Massport boss Craig Coy is headed back to the dreaded private sector with well-earned praise for a job well done.
		The contract to handle Massport's checking accounts was considered a prized plum when the authority put the deal out for bid in 2004 for the first time in years.
		Betsy Taylor, Massport's finance director, says she is confident the bidding was fair, and there was a ``clear firewall" between Wachovia's consulting and banking businesses.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2006/06/02/massports_unsure_wall (590 words)

	USCA1 Opinion 00-2398
		As to the sidewalks adjacent to Northern Avenue, we hold that Massport's permit requirement is valid on its face: the neoteric regulations sufficiently limit official discretion and the restrictions imposed are both content-neutral and narrowly tailored.
		In this instance, it is possible, as Massport argues, to construe the regulations to limit Massport's discretion to revoke permits to cases of substantial safety and access concerns.
		Massport contends that the information supplied in the notice allows it to allocate security resources appropriately and to accommodate competing requests for the use of limited space.
	www.ca1.uscourts.gov /cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=00-2398.01A (8722 words)

	Massport's lavish payouts - The Boston Globe
		Massport workers who leave the agency but do not retire are reimbursed for 50 percent of their sick days.
		Massport employees accumulate 15 sick days a year, and the agency has cut checks for as much as $201,000 to longtime employees, according to a Globe review of Massport records.
		Kinton, a Massport executive for 30 years who earns $255,000 and would be affected by any change in policy, did not respond to phone messages left at his office Friday.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2006/09/24/massports_lavish_payouts/?page=2 (1195 words)

	Why We Must Sue Massport
		Massport claims they are required by federal law to approve any provider with planes under sixty seats.
		Massport would have us believe they have been making promises for years which they are not allowed to keep by federal law.
		Massport has decided to ignore state law, to ride rough-shod over the local review process, to charge ahead without environmental review, and to break its many public pledges to maintain Hanscom as a general aviation airport.
	www.saveourheritage.com /suemassportcolumn.htm (876 words)

	Hanscom News: Massport
		Massport responds by noting claims that they will be sensitive to communities concerns.
		10/3/01 Herald, Globe: Massport is estimated to be losing $300,000 per day in the wake of the Sept 11 attacks, and plans to lay off at least 15 percent of its 1,200-person workforce and severely cut ongoing projects.
		Readers disagreed, saying that Massport board membership is driven by political favors and that Massport has pursued ill-conceived band aid solutions rather than comprehensive transportation plans.
	www.shhair.org /Massport.asp (1629 words)

	Portsmouth Herald Mass. News: Airport opponents pushing initiative to revamp Massport board
		But Massport, which runs Logan International Airport, is hoping to quash the ballot question before voters get the chance to weigh in.
		Massport's seven board members are currently appointed by the governor to staggered seven-year terms.
		Tchen said the plan would force Massport to look at alternate means of public transportation instead of pushing for new runways at Logan or opening Hanscom Field to commercial airlines.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2001news/8_15_sb1.htm (536 words)

	Article by Capuano regarding Runway Plan at Logan Airport
		Massport was also going to experiment with peak pricing (requiring airlines to pay higher landing fees during peak travel hours) as a way to encourage a more evenly spread out flight schedule, thereby reducing delays.
		Massport should reconsider trying peak hour pricing as a way to discourage smaller aircraft from landing at Logan during peak traffic periods, and to create an incentive for the use of alternative airports.
		Massport should be doing all it can to encourage the growth of other airports to serve the Eastern Massachusetts market.
	www.house.gov /capuano/news/1999/pr031099.htm (740 words)

	netNumina
		Massport contracted with two Boston-area consulting firms to build the site: netNumina Solutions for the back-end data integration work and RainCastle Communications for the front-end HTML coding.
		The biggest technical challenges faced by Massport and netNumina were to build a system capable of handling up to six million page views per month and integrating the real-time flight information data service (FIDS) feed.
		Cuzzi says it was difficult at first to get the various Massport departments to work together as a team on the project, but now that the site is live everyone wants to get on board.
	www.netnumina.com /AboutUs/Press/articles/massport.html (689 words)

	Capuano Blasts Massport's Demand Management Plan
		Today Congressman Mike Capuano sent the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) a letter criticizing Massport's proposed Demand Management Program for Boston's Logan Airport and asked the FAA to inform Massport that no federal money can be used on its proposed runway until a workable Demand Management Plan is in place.
		Massport's plan calls for a $150 surcharge on planes choosing to fly during peak travel times, a fee that is too low to be effective.
		Massport should recognize this reality and submit to the FAA a plan that has some chance of actually working," stated Congressman Mike Capuano.
	www.house.gov /capuano/news/2004/pr052004_A.shtml (303 words)

	HBS Alumni - HBS Bulletin
		Prior to Massport, Coy was president and CEO of a Massachusetts company that provided human resources outsourcing for businesses.
		Massport has annual revenue of approximately $500 million and employs 1,149 people.
		Massport in early 2002 clearly was an organization in crisis, primed for transformation.
	www.alumni.hbs.edu /bulletin/2004/june/massport.html (907 words)

	EPA Awards Over $165,000 in Grants to Massport, City of Cambridge and MIT to Reduce Pollution from Diesel Vehicles
		Massport and the Cambridge-MIT collaborative are among the 18 projects selected for funding.
		Massport's $82,800 grant will be used to install oxidation catalysts on a total of 36 land-based diesel vehicles including tractors and reach stackers used at the Conley Container Terminal and delivery trucks serving the terminal.
		Massport is adding to its prior clean-air initiatives including its use of ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel - a step that will enhance the effectiveness of the new retrofits by further reducing emissions.
	www.epa.gov /region1/pr/2005/feb/srdd050201.html (1006 words)

	Massport sues insurer to collect $6M 9/11 payment - Boston Business Journal: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Massport, which operates Logan International Airport, claims the lost revenue, which includes landing fees, parking revenue and proceeds from concessions operating at the airport, resulted from the airport's shutdown by the Federal Aviation Administration for four days, and the restricted access to parts of the airport in the weeks that followed.
		Massport, which claims its policy with IRI covered losses incurred by an interruption of business because of an order by a civil authority for up to two consecutive weeks, is seeking as much as three times the amount of damages, or approximately, $19.5 million, if the court finds IRI acted in bad faith.
		Massport claims IRI's conduct constitutes "unfair and deceptive" practices -- which allows for the $6.5 million claim to be tripled should Massport triumph in court -- because IRI had required as a condition of coverage that Massport provide sensitive security information, which Massport says it is otherwise barred by federal law from disclosing.
	boston.bizjournals.com /boston/stories/2003/04/07/story4.html (681 words)

	Massport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Massport has entered into a partnership with the City of Worcester to operate and attempt to rebuild the Worcester Airport into a successful venture.
		While ROAR supports the Massport operation of the airport and the presumed financial relief this will bring to the city, we disagree that an access highway through our neighborhoods is critical to the success of the airport.
		In 1995, Massport concluded that improved access, while important, was not critical to the success of the airport.
	members.aol.com /worcroar/massport.htm (2871 words)

	Portsmouth Herald Mass News: Report: Massport executives hired expensive lawyers after Sept. 11
		Officials from Massport, which operates Logan, hired expensive city lawyers to protect themselves although Massport's insurance company was obligated to pay for their legal defense, The Boston Globe reported.
		Massport officials, who face lawsuits by relatives of victims of the attacks, said the additional attorneys were needed.
		Massport has 13 staff lawyers of its own that earn $1.2 million a year, The Globe reported.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2002news/6_1_sb2.htm (461 words)

	TÜV America Inc.
		TÜV America Inc. announced that its Management Service division has certified Massport's Tobin Memorial Bridge to ISO 14001, making this the first bridge in the United States to receive an ISO 14001 designation.
		The designation continues a string of environmental firsts for Massport as the Tobin joins L.G. Hanscom Field and the Conley Container Terminal as the first transportation facilities of their kind in the country to be ISO-certified.
		The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) is a world-class independent public authority which develops, promotes and manages airports, the seaport and transportation infrastructure to enable Massachusetts and New England to compete successfully in the global marketplace.
	www.tuvglobal.com /tuvnews/hotnews/pressdetail.cfm?id=1130 (831 words)

	CITY DESK
		Access road notwithstanding, this city needs MassPort, the quasi-public state agency that is running Worcester Regional Airport, to keep running the airport after its contract expires in 2005.
		MassPort’s management agreement with the city dictates that plans for an access road must be in place by the end of 2004, which is why the City Council has recently started pushing the issue.
		The cynical might say MassPort’s was motivated to take over Worcester Airport by its desire to build at Logan, and now that it has a favorable decision, it may lose that motivation and leave, access road or no access road.
	www.worcestermag.com /archives/2004/02-26-04/city_desk.shtml (1990 words)

	East Boston Social Centers - Massport to Fund $370,000 in Summer Jobs Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Funding for the program was originally cut when MassPort implemented a fiscal recovery plan in response to a dramatic reduction in airline travel and revenue.
		Without MassPort support we could not possibly provide the quality, low-ratio staff-to-child care that we are known for at East Boston Camps in Westford, and at Playschool and early learning sites in East Boston and Chelsea," said East Boston Social Center's Executive Director John Kelly.
		While MassPort continues to grapple with budget issues, it has remained committed to finding ways to support local community groups.
	www.ebsoc.org /032102_massport.htm (626 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Harvard Budgetary Consultant: Will Head Massport Authority
		Davis was one of six persons submitted to Gov, Michael S. Dukakis for the Massport job, formerly held by Edward J. King, ousted late in 1974 by a four-to-two vote of the Authority's directors.
		The Massport board also voted to lower the salary of the post from $58,500 a year to $45,000 as part of the Dukakis austerity program.
		He said his first tasks will be to find more business for the Port of Boston, increase the Massport's borrowing capacity, improve the Port Authority's relationship with neighboring Logan Airport communities and stabilize the longshoreman problem.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=124604 (306 words)

	TIME.com: Airports vs. Airlines -- Page 1
		The Massport plan is extremely controversial, but frequent flyers are rooting for it to succeed.
		Airlines, say Massport officials, are generally responding well and have already taken such corrective steps as adding personnel at peak times.
		Massport says that if an airline fails, it will be warned first, then fined.
	www.time.com /time/business/article/0,8599,130893,00.html (858 words)

	Crosshairs on airport site 'worse than inappropriate' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Massport spokesman Jose Juves said the agency recognized immediately after the attacks that the graphic was "an image that could be misconstrued." It was not quickly removed because airport personnel were busy with safety and security concerns, he said.
		Massport has been besieged by charges of lax security following the terrorist attacks.
		With Massport's image under assault, the agency should have known to remove the crosshairs to avoid another public relations problem, Berkovitz said.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2001/09/27/massport-site.htm (513 words)

	Systems Help Peer Through the Fog at Boston's Logan Airport
		Massport is also working on enforcement with the U.S. Coast Guard, and environmental, local and state police.
		With the initiative, Massport officials say Logan will become the first major U.S. airport to electronically scan bulk air cargo to evaluate and assess the feasibility of such a program and develop the required operational protocols.
		Massport officials will share results and data with TSA as they develop and assess strategies, protocols and technologies for air cargo screening.
	securitysolutions.com /mag/security_systems_help_peer (1687 words)

	Techdirt: FCC Tells Massport For Once And For All, Keep Your Paws Off Our Unlicensed Spectrum
		This was despite the FCC being crystal clear that it, and it alone has the right to regulate unlicensed spectrum, and that landlords can't stop tenants from using devices and services that operate within it.
		Massport then made the ridiculous claim that Continental's WiFi was a security threat, which the FCC didn't buy either.
		massport might be able to tell continental airlines they can turn it off, as long as it's in their lease...or at least there's a line item that can be interpreted as such.
	www.techdirt.com /articles/20061101/125517.shtml (1092 words)

	Teamsters_IBT Local 25 Official George Cashman Indicted and Resigns From Massport
		“There's a lot of work to be done at Massport to regain the public's confidence, to regain the credibility of the institution of Massport and Logan airport as a facility, and this allows us to move forward,” she told reporters.
		Cashman, a Democrat, was first appointed to Massport by Governor William Weld, a Republican, as a reward for his political support.
		The charter creating Massport in the 1950s requires a 4-3 split on party affiliation on the seven-member board, and reserves one seat for a union official with an association to Massport, which also operates the Port of Boston and the Tobin Bridge.
	www.laborers.org /BostnGlobe_Cash_1-23-02.htm (746 words)

	USATODAY.com - Boston airport, Continental in spat over wireless service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Continental rejects the claim and argues Massport cannot legally restrict its use of the technology.
		A Massport spokesman declined comment on Continental's complaint, which an FCC spokesman said is the first of its kind involving Wi-Fi access at airports.
		But last month, a Massport attorney warned the airline that its antenna "presents an unacceptable potential risk" to Logan's safety and security systems, including its key-card access system and State Police communications.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/wireless/2005-08-04-airport-wireless_x.htm (386 words)

	Wi-Fi Networking News: USA Today Editorial Condemns Massport
		The unsigned editorial essentially says that Massport is reaching far beyond its grasp: The editorial states in no uncertain terms that if Massport is allowed to shut down legally operating Wi-Fi networks in its facility by its tenants, that this could cause other authorities and municipalities to attempt the same, ruining the unlicensed bands.
		The authority, known as Massport, does not own, control, or have any right to regulate frequencies assigned to Wi-Fi.” Further, “This case is not about the right of local government to impose taxes to fund essential public services.
		The Massport CEO Craig Coy writes, it’s “a case of airlines putting travel perks for an elite few ahead of the broad interests of the traveling public” and states “Those without an ISP may pay a nominal fee for 24 hours of service”—a nominal fee being $7.95.
	wifinetnews.com /archives/005985.html (1317 words)

	BostonHerald.com - Search Site
		Gov.-elect Deval Patrick’s newly appointed finance secretary was involved in a highly questionable banking deal at Massport in which the authority was accused of ignoring a blatant conflict of interest, state records sh...
		A 78-year-old man died in his seat on a British Airways flight to Boston yesterday, leaving his widow to finish the grim trans-Atlantic trip alone after the flight crew was unable to resuscitate him, officials said.
		Gov.-elect Deval Patrick has tapped Massport Chief Financial Officer Leslie Kirwan - credited with leading the agency through the financial turmoil that followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks - to be the state’s first fema...
	news.bostonherald.com /search/?searchSite=recent&keyword=Massport (298 words)

	Flightview ::: Case Study - Massport
		The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) is a world-class, independent public authority that owns and operates the major transportation facilities serving the New England region.
		Massport employs more than 20,000 people and generates more than $8 billion each year for the region's economy.
		Massport wanted to provide complete information for every flight arriving to and departing from all Massport airports including Hanscom Field and Worcester Regional.
	www.flightview.com /Products/casestudies/massport.asp (300 words)

	MassPort Workers Sleeping On Job? - News
		Some cashiers, whom MassPort pays more than $50,000 a year plus benefits, were sound asleep, feet up, hat over the face, in their booths.
		What Team 5 discovered during overnight visits was that even with the new automated "Exit Express" system that nearly eliminates the need for manned cashier booths, two, sometimes three, well-paid cashiers were staffing central parking checkouts with absolutely nothing to do for hours.
		But, perhaps more importantly, during the weeks we were in Logan's garage and terminals overnight, we were never asked by any Massport employees about why we were there.
	www.thebostonchannel.com /news/9175243/detail.html (519 words)

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