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On Election Night, I called Bill Thompson the Christie Whitman of New York politics , since his startlingly narrow, 4.6-point loss to Mayor Bloomberg represented perhaps the biggest near-miss shocker since a then-unknown Whitman came within two points...
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More than $5.3 billion worth of infrastructure projects were announced by Mayor Bloomberg last week. He also mentioned that the $300 million the projects will save taxpayers will be reinvested into other infrastructure projects that would otherwise be...
Tags: Mayor Bloomberg, China, construction unions, Atlanta
This is just the kind of news that doesn’t bode well for the state of democracy in America: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg shelled out $102 million of his own money in his recent successful (albeit close) run for re-election. That shakes out to...
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Two union presidents have formally criticized the city’s approach to swine flu vaccinations in schools, with District Council 37 Local 436 President Judith Arroyo saying her School Nurses are dangerously overworked as the vaccinations are distributed,...
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has broken his own spending record from four years ago, dropping $85.2 million on his campaign for a third term with 11 days to go until Election Day. The popular billionaire was 16 points ahead of Democrat William...
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At the first mayoral debate earlier this week, Mayor Bloomberg was booed when he said that Rudy Giuliani would be a good governor of New York. That's because when he swung hard to the right in the presidential election, he alienated the liberal city-dwellers...
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In response to my recent letter (Oct. 9 issue) charging that editor Richard Steier and regular letter-writer Michael Gorman seemed to be using a tag-team method to rebut some of my comments critical of Gorman, I want to thank Mr. Steier for his reply...
Tags: William Thompson Jr., Michael Bloomberg, Mayor Bloomberg, online subscriber
The city is embarking on an ambitious new strategy to improve parking availability and ease parking meter and parking ticket payments...Bloomberg on Wednesday, will test innovative technologies which enable map views of available parking spaces, receipt...
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Bloomberg ’s plans to attend the U2 concert at the Meadowlands were disrupted Thursday night after the pilot of his private helicopter made a mistake during a test flight to Giants Stadium. The pilot, flying without the mayor as he familiarized himself...
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg leveled a rare attack on the Democrat aiming to unseat him, comparing their records on education in the most pointed dispute since the general election began last week. At his regular news conference Tuesday — not...
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