NY STATE SENATOR’S FACEBOOK PAGE GONE WILD? (*UPDATED*) If you “friend” Brooklyn’s Republican State Senator David Storobin on Facebook, you can see posts his other “friends” make on his page. The problem is, Storobin doesn’t seem to be looking very closely at what his “friends” are posting. For an elected official in the middle...
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Good morning! It’s Paul Ryan’s day at the RNC, with the Wisconsin Republican set tonight to accept the GOP nomination this evening. The New York delegation partied last night with Gov. George Pataki, and this morning will listen to speeches by him and Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuno. There will also be a visit...
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This week in Occupy, Pussy Riot was sentenced to two years in Russian prison, we expressed solidarity with General Motors hunger strikers in Colombia, activists far and nigh set their sights on Tampa and the Republican National Convention, and the one-year Occuversary is approaching.
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Despite Congressman Jerrold Nadler's call for embattled New York State Assemblyman Vito Lopez to resign his seat in the Assembly and as chair of the Kings County Democratic Party, Lopez refuses as says the sexual harassment allegations against him are untrue.
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Another state lawmaker in handcuffs. Sen. Shirley Huntley, D-Queens, called an “emergency press conference” this morning to announce she expects to be arrested on Monday, the Associated Press and others reported. A probe by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli led to the arrest late last year of four employees of a...
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg co-wrote a letter with fracking pioneer George Mitchell in the Washington Post that endorsed fracking, so long as it's done responsibly.
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Two years after the city’s Human Resources Administration vowed to save money by finding a single company to provide storage services for homeless New Yorkers, it continues to force clients to find their own facilities. With the city’s homeless population now at record levels, vying to store their possessions is a booming business.
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Billionaire David H. Koch is the wealthiest Republican among the generous campaign donors named as delegates to the party’s national convention that begins Monday in Florida. Koch is one of 34 at-large delegates among the state GOP’s 95. He is estimated by Forbes to be worth $25 billion and has used his fortune to support...
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