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Morning Updates: 35 Bill Cosby accusers speak out in magazine article

From Washington to Boston and Amtrak to NJ Transit, commuters are increasingly seeing delays on train travel. Julie Jacobson / AP

By Eric Levenson @ejleven

July 27, 2015

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Good morning, Boston. America’s ancient rail transportation system is falling apart, Olympic leaders pressure Gov. Charlie Baker for his support, and the rest of the news you need to know.

Gov. Baker holds the power: “Multiple reports say the USOC wants Baker to give a sense for where he stands. Without the sitting Republican governor’s support, the Olympic bid could go kaputz. … However, Baker may not have much to offer the USOC one way or the other on Monday. The governor again told reporters Friday that he won’t take a position on the bid until he has gotten the results of the report the state commissioned.’’ (Boston.com)

The many, many alleged victims of Bill Cosby:

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(New York magazine)

On Amtrak, delays, delays, delays: “The corridor’s ridership has doubled in the last 30 years even as its old and overloaded infrastructure of tracks, power lines, bridges and tunnels has begun to wear out. And with Amtrak and local transit agencies struggling for funding, many fear the disruptions will continue to worsen in the years ahead. … From October 2014 to May 2015, the most recent data available, Amtrak trains along the Northeast Corridor reported a 76 percent on-time rate, down from 89 percent in the comparable period three years ago.’’ (The New York Times)

Private high school heads rake in the dough: “As salaries of college presidents have risen to new heights, compensation for their prep school counterparts has quietly surged in kind, a Globe survey has found. Among leaders of more than 30 top private high schools in New England, the median pay package was nearly $450,000 in 2012, a 23 percent climb from 2009, according to complete data from the most recent tax filings.’’ (The Boston Globe)

Dominican Republic’s conflict with Haitian immigrants hits here: “They are among the pillars of the Dominican community in Massachusetts: Junot Diaz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and professor at MIT; Dennis Benzan, the vice mayor of Cambridge; and Hector Piña, the owner of a Boston restaurant. But in recent weeks the men have been assailed as traitors against their country, and worse, for criticizing the Dominican Republic’s citizenship policies toward people of Haitian descent and engaging in a thorny debate over racism.’’ (The Boston Globe)