Author Archives: Jay Emsey
Rudy Giuliani Sure Likes Making Money |
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12:34 pm, 04/26/2012 |
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani travelled to Serbia last week, two weeks ahead of a pivotal national election, and met with the opposition party, former allies of nationalist war criminal Slobodan Milosevic. [Read More] |
8:37 pm, 04/17/2012 |
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That Didn’t Last Long |
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1:02 pm, 04/17/2012 |
A bill introduced by Democratic Senators Velmanette Montgomery (Brooklyn) and Keith Wright (Harlem) that would have taken control of New York City’s school system back from Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been shot down by Senate Republicans. [Read More] |
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1:19 pm, 04/12/2012 |
Protest America-Hating Massachusetts Band Dom at Glasslands This Friday |
NYLEAD, Coalition of Rich People, Wants to Get Rich People Out of Politics |
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1:01 pm, 04/12/2012 |
A coalition of wealthy people is advocating to get wealthy people out of politics in New York State. The coalition of media, banking, and inheriting moguls, dubbed NYLEAD, is working to bring New York City’s model of campaign financing to statewide races, and counter the increasing dominance of wealthy donors in American politics. [Read More] |
11:06 am, 04/11/2012 |
Redistricting Heads to the Courts, Schneiderman Does Stuff, and Buffalo is Liberated | Wednesday Links |
Cuomo Stamps Out Medical Marijuana Talk |
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11:35 am, 04/10/2012 |
Not now, sez Guv. [Read More] |
Dean Skelos Doesn’t Want to Raise the Minimum Wage |
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4:48 pm, 04/09/2012 |
And he posits some science to back up his theorems. [Read More] |
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1:15 pm, 04/05/2012 |
Brooklyn’s So So Glos Have Had a Pretty Awesome Song Out for Months |
Former Journalist Blasts New York Press Corps for Coddling Cuomo |
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12:07 pm, 04/05/2012 |
Quinnipiac University’s Mickey Carroll says Governor Cuomo’s high approval ratings are a result of unrelentingly positive press coverage. [Read More] |
Quinnipiac Poll: Governor Cuomo is Popular |
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12:14 pm, 04/04/2012 |
A new poll from Quinnipiac University shows that Governor Andrew Cuomo remains very popular in the state, with equal suppost from Democrats and Republicans. [Read More] |
A Primer on Redistricting |
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9:12 pm, 04/03/2012 |
Oh, man, how come New York is such a Democratic state but the State Senate is always Republican? Dude, I never thought of that before. That’s weird. [Read More] |
New York City’s Coming 911 Scandal |
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12:04 pm, 04/02/2012 |
The Bloomberg administration is trying to suppress a damning report of the city’s inadequate and bloated 911 response system. One New York Post source calls the report, “nuclear.” [Read More] |
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10:29 am, 03/28/2012 |
A Budget Deal is Reached | Wednesday Links |
Manhattan’s Union Square Has a Curfew Now |
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1:31 pm, 03/23/2012 |
Union Square opened in 1882 and now has its first curfew ever. The new sign apparently went up last night. [Read More] |
A Good Synopsis of Last Week |
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11:04 am, 03/20/2012 |
Tier 6 Passes Assembly |
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1:47 pm, 03/15/2012 |
State lawmakers were up all night in Albany, and passed another sharp reduction in state worker pension benefits around 7:30 this morning. The vote is part of a Big Ugly: a cute Albany term for a mass of unrelated bills linked together by government leaders in a back room deal. [Read More] |
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1:47 pm, 03/14/2012 |
Redistricting News and Hipster News | Wednesday Links |
“It Happens All the Time”: Stop and Frisks in New York City |
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12:45 pm, 03/13/2012 |
AnimalNewYork’s Bucky Turco caught a New York City stop and frisk on video Friday night. With nearly 700,000 such searches performed by NYPD officers a year, it’s not that difficult to catch a glimpse of the phenomenon. Of course, it helps to be in right neighborhood. [Read More] |
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12:23 pm, 03/12/2012 |
All Power in the Hands of the SPECIAL MASTER | Monday Links |
