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by Michelle Matthews/Popminx.com When I say I’m super into pop, I don’t just mean the kind that you can only find on obscure CD-R labels run out of a remote corner of Sweden or even stuff on Matador. No [Read More]

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Mario Cuomo’s Garage Rock Band is Pretty Cool

At first we were going to pretend like we thought this was former Governor Mario Cuomo, and maybe some band from the 60s that he was is, but that’d be really dumb. The Orwells are a new garage rock [Read More]

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Jeff Klein

Some Salaries of New York State’s Minimum Wage Hike Opponents

Pictured Above And Center: Minimum-wage increase opponent and NFIB/NY State Director Mike Durant at a January 10th presser with Senator Tom Libous and some enthralled business and landowner coalition leaders. Durant was speaking on behalf of their coalition, “Clean Growth Now.” A master of political optics, Durant is wearing a lemongrass “green, sustainable” tie as he urges New York state’s Department of Environmental Conservation to hurry the fuck up with its proposed regulations for natural gas development for the benefit of the littlest businesses. Or, perhaps the tie color is meant to evoke lime-yellow hue of light natural gas. Anyway, the man is a tie-selecting genius. (Image Credit: NFIB itself; Touch Up Credit: Me)

by Max Paige-Vieux

4:22 pm, 04/06/2012

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Things were looking pretty good for a moment there, if you were a fan of livable wages for New York’s hardscrabble and adorable working families. [Read More]

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There Were Some Elections Yesterday | Wednesday Links

Senator Klein Attacks Four Loko Again, Risks Retaliation from Alcopop Trade Groups

by Jay Emsey

2:59 pm, 10/03/2011

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STATE SENATOR JEFFREY KLEIN is once again on the warpath against Four Loko and other so-called “alcopop” beverages. [Read More]