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Who Is Attorney General Eric Schneiderman?

#1 Lawyer! (Source: AP)

by Jane Smith

5:20 pm, 02/07/2012

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  According to a recent Siena College poll, 63% of New Yorkers don’t know who Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is. Get it together, New York! This guy is legit, and uh, kind of a dreamboat. He’s a progressive Democrat who [Read More]

NY Prisoners Will No Longer Be Counted As Residents Of Prisons

Yeesh! (Credit: prisonersofthecensus.org)

by Jane Smith

7:21 pm, 01/18/2012

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In a rare victory for lovers of democracy and redistricting reform, New York State just declared prisoners to be legal residents of their pre-prison addresses. For too long, upstate New York has been overrepresented, due to the sheer number of prison [Read More]

Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30 With Parents’ Health Care Plans in NY State

Picture taken shortly after Affordable Care Act was signed into law (Source: ramblings-fran.blogspot.com).

by Jane Smith

1:51 am, 12/16/2011

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    Good news for those single, uninsured folks who just turned 26 years old. We all know that the federal Affordable Care Act of 2010 gave young, unmarried adults up to the age of 26 the option to go [Read More]

Rome ‘Paves’ the Way For Lamer Streets

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by Jane Smith

2:48 pm, 12/14/2011

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  The Mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, has just announced that his city will be paving over historic cobblestone streets to accommodate high-heeled shoes in certain thoroughfares. Gothamist dangerously alluded to the idea that New York City could pave over [Read More]

Black Friday Sales Pit 99% Against 99%

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by Jane Smith

5:43 pm, 11/28/2011

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This year, Black Friday finally broke through into Thursday, also known as Thanksgiving Day. That meant a flood of freshly bloated tourists and residents tee-heeing their way through the streets of New York City, or more commonly, anxious serfs gearing [Read More]

America Looks like New York State. Occupy YOUR Town.

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by Jane Smith

1:38 pm, 11/17/2011

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While #OccupyWallSt regains its footing, there are plenty of other places to lay out your sleeping bags, yell at bankers,  and be American from Brooklyn to Utica!  In addition, check out burgeoning Facebook pages uniting the New York State and [Read More]