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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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Tier 6

The Daily Q: What is a pension ‘tier’ and why are state workers opposed to a new one?

by Max Paige-Vieux

2:07 pm, 03/15/2012

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As part of his proposed budget for FY 2012-13, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called for significant changes to the pension program for state employees. [Read More]

Tier 6 Passes Assembly

by Jay Emsey

1:47 pm, 03/15/2012

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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]