Three New York City Council members want their $10,000 committee chairmen stipends to benefit Haiti. Ydanis Rodriguez, Jumaane Williams and Mathieu Eugene scheduled an announcement Wednesday. The members oppose stipends for committee heads. Rather than accepting the money before donating it, Rodriguez’s chief of staff, Angel Audiffred, says they want the council to give the money [...]
February 3, 2010 | Posted in
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A group of leading United States senators wants to cut off funding for civilian trials of accused September 11th terrorists. A bipartisan coalition led by Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman introduced the measure yesterday. President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for next year includes funds for the Justice Department to handle the trial of five [...]
February 3, 2010 | Posted in
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Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday that he had no idea that $750,000 of the $1.2 million he donated to the state Independence Party last year for poll-watching would end up at a hastily formed company whose principals hid behind a corporate veil. “I didn’t know anything about it until I read your story,” the mayor said [...]
February 3, 2010 | Posted in
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Alternatively slinging barbs and touting their records, the two candidates vying for an Assembly seat in Queens made the most of their first and only debate before next week’s special election. Civic leader Bob Friedrich slammed former City Councilman David Weprin as a clubhouse politician, while Weprin dismissed Friedrich as a “perennial candidate” during Monday’s hour-long [...]
February 3, 2010 | Posted in
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Just more than two weeks ago, the overwhelming majority of both the state Senate and Assembly passed an ethics reform bill. Governor David Paterson called it weak then and, on Tuesday, made good on his promise to veto the plan. “I think we can do better. I think the people of the State of New [...]
February 2, 2010 | Posted in
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The New York congresswoman representing White Plains says the city’s federal courthouse should not be considered for the trial of the professed mastermind of the 2001 terror attacks. The courthouse is part of the same federal district as Manhattan, where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed originally was to be tried. New York City officials objected, and Obama [...]
February 2, 2010 | Posted in
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The West Side Rail Yards project will go on, despite the loss of one of its partners. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced Monday that financial giant Goldman Sachs has pulled out of the $1 billion deal to redevelop the Hudson rail yards. However, the plans are expected to go on unchanged. The MTA is delaying [...]
February 2, 2010 | Posted in
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David Paterson says he’ll keep pushing legislation to lift the cap on charter schools in New York. Paterson says the state is close to reaching its limit and there are now 30,000 students enrolled. Noting that the Legislature last month didn’t approve his measure to lift the cap, Paterson says he’ll try again either in [...]
February 2, 2010 | Posted in
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David Greenfield, who’s running in a special election to replace outgoing City Councilman Simcha Felder in Brooklyn, has picked up Mayor Ed Koch’s backing – support that could be a boost in the heavily-Jewish district. “I began my career in the City Council, and I know the kind of person it takes to do the [...]
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Republican candidate for governor Rick Lazio called on his potential rival Monday to make up his mind about this year’s race for the state house. After addressing the State Conservative Party in suburban Albany, Lazio appeared Monday on NY1′s “Inside City Hall” where he said State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo should put an end to [...]
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