The vast majority of passenger travel in the United States occurs by automobile for shorter distances and airplane or railroad for longer distances. Most cargo in the U.S. is transported by, in descending order, railroad, truck, pipeline, or boat; air shipping is typically used only for perishables and premium express shipments. Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
The term alternative process refers to any non-traditional or non-commercial photographic printing process. Currently, the standard analog photographic printing process for black-and-white photographs is the gelatin silver process. Standard digital processes include the pigment print, and digital laser exposures on traditional color photographic paper.
The Manchester Transit Authority, or MTA, is a public transportation provider in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. It was founded in 1973 and operates 13 regular bus routes through the city, including a free downtown circulator, which was rebranded as the Green DASH in 2011. In general, service is hourly, with more frequent service along corridors served by multiple routes, and especially on the Green DASH.
Paul D. Gewirtz is an American lawyer currently serving as the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School and director of the Yale Paul Tsai China Center.
John M. Bennett is an American experimental text, sound, and visual poet.
Penobscot Theatre Company (PTC), is located in Bangor, Maine.
Valentine v. Chrestensen, 316 U.S. 52 (1942), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that commercial speech in public thoroughfares is not constitutionally protected.
David Thomas Lewis was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
The United States Senate Journal is a written record of proceedings within the United States Senate in accordance with Article I, Section 5 of the U.S. Constitution.
Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either House, on any question, shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
The National Transportation Library (NTL) maintains and facilitates access to information necessary for transportation decision-making in government and coordinates with public and private transportation libraries and information providers to improve information sharing among the transportation community. It is currently under the administration of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
Phillip Sam Figa was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
Cultural property law is the body of law that protects and regulates the disposition of culturally significant material, including historic real property, ancient and historic artifacts, artwork, and intangible cultural property. Cultural property can be any property, tangible or intangible, having special significance to a defined group of people, whether or not the group is vested with a traditional property interest. Cultural property laws may be international or domestic.
Tax increment financing (TIF) is a local public finance tool available to municipal governments in the state of Maine. TIF in the state of Maine refers to a program different from tax increment financing in most states. TIF in Maine refers to a process by which a local government in the state can underwrite their revenues in order to earmark tax funds and receive more funding from the state.
Lt. Gen. Kenneth Richard Wykle is a retired American Army officer and civil servant who served as Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration under the second Clinton administration.
Robert E. Farris was sworn in as Federal Highway Administrator on June 8, 1988, after serving as the FHWA's Deputy Federal Highway Administrator from August 1986.
Rex Marion Whitton was an American administrator. He retired as Federal Highway Administrator on December 30, 1966, after a career of public service that spanned nearly the entire history of modern highway construction in the United States. At his retirement, he had completed more than 46 years of continuous highway work, 40 of which were spent in his native Missouri.
Francis Victor du Pont was an American civil engineer, transportation commissioner, and member of the Du Pont family. He was involved in the development of public roads and highways in the United States.
Henri J. Haskell (1843–1921) was the first Montana Attorney General from 1889 to 1897.
Herman Brister DeCell (1924–1986) was a lawyer and politician in Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi Senate from 1959 to 1979.
William Edward Kilcrease was a state legislator in Florida. He served in the Florida House of Representatives in 1850 and the Florida Senate in 1852, 1854, and 1855. He had a cotton plantations in Gadsden County. He owned slaves.
