396. July 24, 2007
Tell The
Truth, Governor(Spitzer Is Beleaguered As Bruno's Chickens Come Home
To Roost, Courtesy of A. Cuomo.)
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395. July 20, 2007
See How They
Run(Editorial Mercy: 3 Mile Forgiven In 2 Short Days.)
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394. July 17, 2007
The Harder
They Fall(Dinapoli Trashes Hevesi, Calling His Predecessor "Unethical,
Irresponsible".)
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393. July 16, 2007
The Bigger
They Come(2 Prosecutors Scramble Over Hevesi's Carcass, Hunting Beneficiaries
Of Political Largesse.)
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392. July 10, 2007
78, 48
To Cuomo 49. Plummer 70 Axed(Accusations in Albany Go To Andrew Cuomo
Quinn Fires Plummer.)
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391. July 6, 2007 Tough Talk at the Albany
Corral(Bruno, 78, vs. Spitzer, 48. Wily Senator Challenges A Threatening
Governor.)
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390. July 3, 2007
The House
We Live In(Reflection on Independence Day.)
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389. June 28, 2007
Practical
Advice For Subway Riders(Mayor Likes the Subway, But Rush Hour Patrons
are Feeling the Squeeze.)
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388. June 26, 2007
Pleasant
Purprise: Cuomo and DiNapoli (Andrew Cuomo In Fast Start, Spitzer
Praises Tom DiNapoli as the First Furlong Finishes.)
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387. June 22, 2007
Can't We
All Just Get Along? (Albany Packs It In, Few Achievements, Much
Squabbling.)
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386. June 20, 2007
Heart Says
Yes, Mind Says Maybe (Mayor Mike Abandons Elephant, A Hindrance
In National Poitics, As He Positions Himslef For 2008.)
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385. June 15, 2007
Geraldine,
Christine and Viola (Geraldine, Christine and Viola.)
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384. June 13, 2007
There's Good
News Tonight (Early City Budget Agreement 2.3 Billion is Set Aside For
'09. Tales of Unrequested Ambition.)
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383. June 11, 2007
Sun of
Public Art (Sun Trashed Public Art, But Settling the Lawsuit May Have
Been Prudent.)
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381 & 382. June 8, 2007 Public Art (Brooklyn
College Art Show: Clasped P-nis and Live Rat. City To Pay $56K to
Can it. --Dread Scott and Dead Cop, Art of The Next Revolution. Why
We Ignored it in 1994.)
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380. June 6, 2007 What's In a Street Name?
Honor. ("Assasinate His Ass" Is A Mixed Metaphor, What To
Do About It?)
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379. June 1, 2007 What Would Horace Do?
(Teacher is Fired, Paper Censored at Horace Mann.)
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378. May 31, 2007 Eliot's Report Card:
Jan-May'07 (The Governor at Day 151: How to Deal With Rogues Without
Looking Foolish.)
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376 & 377. May 25, 2007 Govt v. Media; Eliot's
Elves at War (Egotistic Executives, Self-Serving Scribes in
Frequent Conflict & Spitzer Staff's Spats Described by Dicker,
But Tale Stops There.)
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375. May 17, 2007 Thundering Hoofbeats
(Eight Years Ago Today 5.17.99 Commuter Tax Was Repealed By Speaker
Silver's Assembly. Loss to NYC so Far: $4 Billion.)
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374. May 16, 2007 Inconvenient, But How
True Is It? (Mayor on World State, But Congestion Pricing
is a Tricky Local Issue.)
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373. May 14, 2007 City: Yes; Feds: No; State:
Maybe (Three Governments: City OK, Feds NG, State In A Struggle.)
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372. May 10, 2007 Trimming the Fat, Ruffling
Feathers (The Reduction of Waste in the Hospital Industry
Will be Rsisted Fiercely by Local Beneficiaries and Legislative
Allies)
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371. May 8, 2007 The Bloominator ?
Bloomberg For Governor? It's on Page One of the Post, The Paper
that A Elected Koch)
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370. May 4, 2007 A Cole Night in April
(Why Should Assemblyman Have
to Sleep on the Floor While Intern Hogs the Bed?)
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369. May 1, 2007 Growing Up in Inwood
(Growing Up in Inwood Watching
Coal Delivery, Aided by Rent Control)
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368. April 25, 2007
The Ph.D.s, the
NRA, or Both? (Who Killed the Blacksburg 32?
Virginia's Pathetic Gun Laws? The Incompetence of Shrinks? Could
it be Both?.)
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367. April 20, 2007
He Was Crazy, They
Were Dumb (We Revisit
The Virginia Tech Massacre. The Closer You Look, The Worse It
Gets.)
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366. April 18, 2007
Virginia Tech
- The Accomplices (Sharing The Blame At Virginia Tech:
Who Are The Evnablers of 32 Deaths? Can Anyone Prevent Mass Murder?)
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365. April 12, 2007
Your Pork, My Bacon
(Prospect
of State Surplus May Have Induced Spitzer To Compromise On Budget. $170M
Provided For Pork.)
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364. April 10, 2007
First 100 Days
(We Look
at Spitzers's First Hundred Days, Some Ups, One down Budget Was a
Tossup.)
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363. April 5, 2007
Other People's
Opinion (What They Think: Press and
Public Rate the Budget.)
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362. March 30, 2007
Day 89 -- What Happened
(Three Days
of Talks In Albany In Effort to Meet 4/1 Deadline Add Billion (s?) to
State Budget.)
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361. March 23, 2007
Another Day Older
and Deeper in Debt (Three levels fo Government Have Substantial
Det Load. 1975 Fiscal Crisis Revisited.)
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360. March 21, 2007
Exceptions to
the Sixth Commandment (Thou Shalt Not Kill a Man Unless Thou
Knowest Well That He Wouldst Kill Thee.)
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359. March 12, 2007
Released Rapists
and Potential Victims (Both Houses Pass a Bill to Keep Sex Offenders
in 'Civic Confinement' Until They are Cured.)
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358. March 9, 2007
Fire Under
the Elms (Appellate Court Upholds City
on Washington Squar Park Renovations Can Go Ahead.)
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357. March 5, 2007
Quoth ELS:
"I'll Be LBJ" (Is the Triumvirate Acceptable If They
Serve the Public Good? Spitzer Uses Bruno and Silver,
Writer Criticizes Secret Deals.)
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356. March 3, 2007
Spitzer's
First Report (Spitzer Stars as He Reviews His
First 60 Days in Office, Attacks Role of Hospitals in
Billing Medicaid Costs.)
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355. Feburary 28, 2007
Judges: The Good,
The Bad.... (What Makes A Good Judge? Begin
With Great Integrity, Add Brains, Guts and Balls.)
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354. Feburary 22, 2007
The Longest Article
Ever (How
Judges Are Picked For Court of Appeals, And How it Used to
Be.)
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353. Feburary 20, 2007
Valentine Escapes
on Mardi Gras (Is Governor Spitzer Crazy Or is
He Crazy Like a Fox?.)
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352. Feburary 16, 2007
Spitzer in 2012?
(Is Governor Spitzer
Crazy Or is He Crazy Like a Fox?.)
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351. Feburary 15, 2007
It's WAR. Spitzer
Strikes First Blow (The Battle of Albany: Gov. Spitzer
Trashes The State Legislature Over Tom DiNapoli Says "Knockout Blow
Is Coming Very Soon".)
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350. Feburary 9, 2007
Fillmore 2, DiNapoli
54 (An
Assemblyman No Longer, DiNapoli is 54th Comptroller The
Governor is Not Amused.)
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349. Feburary 7, 2007
No Non-Legislators
Need Apply (Tale of Tom DiNapoli Comptroller
Wannabe, Who May Get the Call to Replace Elected Guy.)
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348. Feburary 1, 2007
Be Kind To Man
and Beast (Ex-Wife Tells Daily News
Mason Bought Judgeship But Didn't Support Kids, He Says
His Ex is "Bitter".)
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347. January 26, 2007
Three Threes To
Find One (Three Member Screening Panel
Selected By Three Men In Room Calls Three People "Qualified"
To Be N.Y. State Comptroller, Replacing the Elected Offical
Who Had Driver Assist Ill Wife.)
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346. January 23, 2007
Judges' Ex Drops
a Dime (Ex-Wife Tells Daily News
Mason Bought Judgeship But Didn't Support Kids, He Says
His Ex is "Bitter".)
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345. January 19, 2007
Wanted: Watchdog
or Lapdog? (Selecting A Comptroller: Politicians
Strive to Fill Vacancey They Created By Feeding Hevesi
to Wolves.)
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344. January 15, 2007
Odyssey in a
Sewer (State
of the Brooklyn Courts: Judgeships for Sale or Rent, Barrett's Two-Year
Inquiry, Plus History of Scoundreland.)
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343. January 8, 2007
Five Hundred Year
Siesta (Badillo Says Hispanics Don't
Value Education Due to 500-Year Siesta.)
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342. January 8, 2007
Ambition in the
Assembly (Ambition Exceeds Judgment
As Assembly Rivals Compete for Normal Elected Office.)
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341. January 4, 2007
Spitzer Aims High(State of The State: Spitzer Expresses
Great Aspirations.)
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340. January 2, 2007
Mr. Spitzer Goes
to Albany(Spitzer Focuses on Ethics,
Issues 5 Executive Oders Pledges Open Government.)
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339. December 29, 2006
Holiday Reading;
Good Wishes (Two Article You Should Read Over the
New Year's Weekend.)
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338. December 15, 2006
Albany Update:
Pots and Kettles (Legislative Session Fizzles. Hevesi
Attacked, Defended Sen. Gonzales Re-Indicted.)
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337. December 13, 2006
Stop Rape; Give
Me More Money (Business as Usual In Albany;
Legislators Want Pay Raise as Reward For Passing Bills.)
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336. December 8, 2006
2,193,603 Votesd
for Him (Hevesi Was Re-Elected By
Voters Who Knew About His Misconduct.)
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335. December 7, 2006
Money Now: Reform
Later- Maybe (Council Votes Itself 25% Raises,
Fails To Act On Reform Proposals, Quinn To Give
Them Carefull Study.)
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334. December 1, 2006
Eliot On Ethics.
Is it Day One? (Good News Form Albany: Can Today Be Day
One? Spitzer Adopts Reforms Will Legislature Follow? Don't Stand One One
Leg.)
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333. November 29, 2006
Building Castles
Underground (Building Castles Underground:
MTA Approaches $ Billion Cost On Fulton Street Construction)
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332. November 17, 2006
A Rafter Of Turkeys
(Notes
On Thanksgiving, Pelosi And Hevesi. Should Jack the
Riper Be Free To Roam?.)
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331. November 17, 2006
"Holier Than Thou"
("Holier Than Thou" Pols
Pursue Hevesi But He's No Angel.)
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330. November 17, 2006
The Speaker Has
to Listen (Incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Finds Her Troops Have Mutinied As Hoyer Beats
Murtha, 149-86.)
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329. November 14, 2006
Spitzer Meets
Silver and Bruno (Spitzer Meets Silver and Bruno. How
Will These Three Get Along? Pelosi Would Oust Hoyer,
Harman.)
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328. November 8, 2006
Lose War, Lose
House (Ruminating: Rumsfeld Caused
GOP Casualties.)
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327. October 31, 2006
Nobody Does it
Once (Hevesi
Hounded, Haunted, Abandoned by Associates, Struggles for Survival.)
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326. October 18, 2006
Fundraiser. Wedding.
Indictment (We Try Again: Invitation For Oct.
26. Southern District Indicts McLaughlin Non-Election
Draws Nigh. Juicy Links.)
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325. October 13, 2006
Family Money, What of
It. (State Election Results Appear Assured,
Leading to Fewer Promises And Attacks.
Historical Notes on Weatlh & Politics.)
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324. October 5, 2006
33 Days and Counting (Thrity-three Days and Counting: New
York Races Are Runaways, Control of Senates
Is Uncertain.)
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323. September 21, 2006
Turning 180 Degrees
in One Day (Primaries Dissected: Sundry
Observations, Cowardice Under Fire.)
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322. September 19, 2006
Upstate and Big Apple
Turnover (Five Incumbents Lose Primary Races,
But 3 of 4 Top Contests are Runaways. Will the Democrats Capture the Senate?)
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321. September 15, 2006
Primaires Dissected
(Primaries Dissected: Sundry
Observations, Cowardice Under Fire.)
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320. September 12, 2006 A Secondary Election
(A Curious Primary Election Results
are Widely Foreseen Why Do Pols Self-Destruct.)
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319. September 5, 2006 Goodbye, Judicial Conventions
(Reducing the Rodle
of County Leaders, 2d Circuit Bars Judicial Conventions
To Select Supreme Court Nominees.)
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318. August 30, 2006 This Little Piggy is Hiding
(Legislature Conceals Identity
Of Members Sponsoring Pork)
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317. August 28, 2006 Lawmakers, Lawbreakers
(Lawmakers, Lawbreakers)
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316. August 23, 2006
Work for NYC; Retire in Your 40's
(State Legislature Imposes
$1 Billion More in Pension Costs on NYC Taxpayers.)
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315. August 18, 2006
Bloomberg For President? OMG!
(Springtime For Bloomberg:
Cold Mayor Carry Nation Fed Up With Major
Parites.)
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314. August 17, 2006
Wake Up the Council (Proportional Representation Would Make
City Council More Diverse Ideologically.)
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313. August 10, 2006
On To November (Water Tunnels Meet at 34 St. Nutmeg
State Senate Contest More Interesting
Than Ours.)
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312. August 4, 2006
October 23, 1983
(WW III Began 10-23-1983
But We Were Unaware Of That Until 9-11-01.)
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311. July 28, 2006
Elephants, Snails and
Butts (Elephant Expands at a Snail's
Pace, Showing Its Butt to Hudson River.)
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310. July 25, 2006
Thomas J. Manton (1932-2006)
(Tom Manton, Successful County
Leader, Controlled Queens, Thwarted Reformers, Selected Speakers
and Judges With Class.)
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309. July 18, 2006 Jacob K. Javits &
Henrik Hudson
(Proposed
Design to Expand Javits Center is
Criticized by Civic and Esthetic Groups for Extending
Wall Facing Hudson River.)
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308. July 14, 2006
The Court of Appeals Punts
(Appeals Court
Rules Legislature Should Decide on Gay Marriage. 4-2 Vote Does Not
Weigh Merits, Leaves Issue to Albany for 2007.)
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307. July 6, 2006 Ken Lay Modeled NY Debt
(New York State: Government
101. Legislature- It's Business as Usual.
Inauguration of a New Governor May, or May
Not, Change Much.)
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306. June 30, 2006 Silver Service. What
About Gold?
(Silver,
in 13th Year as Speaker, Dominates
Assembly Democrats. Does He Use Power Equitably,
Or to Assist Unions, Tort Bar?)
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305. June 23, 2006
Albany - Silver - Gates
(Legislature Concluding
Session, Speaker Silver, Bill Gates.)
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304. June 20, 2006
To Act - Or Not to Act
(Times Editorial, 2 News
Columns Urge Albany to Act, or Not to Act.)
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303. June 16, 2006
The News Speaks Out
(Daily News Criticizes Silver’s
Plo Of Stacking Assembly Committee To Defeat Legislation on Lawsuits.)
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302. June 14, 2006
A Silver Bullet
(City Cries Foul As Albany
Panel Defeats Measure On Lawsuits.)
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301. June 7, 2006 Horseless Carriages
(Central Park Annals: Car
Use is Restricted, But Purists Still Balk.)
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300. May 26, 2006 The Mayor Relies on Science
(Mayor Backs Quest For
Scientific Truth In Address To Johns Hopkins
Graduates. He Rejects Theories Based On
Religion.)
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299. May 24, 2006 Columns Worth Reading
(Rudy Washington, Tort
Reform and Eliot Spitzer.)
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298. May 19, 2006 Rape, Laws and Albany
(Extension of Statute
of Limitations for Rape is Bottled up in Albany. Silver
Would Allow More Time for Civil Actions. Bruno Says No. Spitzer,
Morgenthau, Suozzi Oppose Linkage.)
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297. May 18, 2006 Test Ability, Use Standards,
Not Charades
(Gifted Children Struggle
For Education In Generally Inhospitable
School System. Parents Are Frustrated
By New Rankings Based On Indefinite, Subjective Criteria.)
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296. May 12, 2006 Bright Kids. New Counselor.
(Let My People Learn. The
Senior Counselor to the Chancellor.)
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295. May 8, 2006 Teaching Facts to Kids
(E.D. Hirsch, Education
Theorist, Says Kids Must Be Taught
Facts. His Views Rejected By Educrats.)
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294. May 5, 2006 This Land Is My Land
(Mayor Bloomberg Defends
Eminent Domain As Congress Moves To Limit
Cities' Powers After 5-4 Supreme Court
Decision In Kelo.)
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293. May 3, 2006 The Mayor, a School,
McGreevey & Cheney (Bloomberg's Second Term, John F. Kennedy
High School, McGreevey
& Cheney.)
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292. April 28, 2006 Anarchy, Tyranny, or
Fairness? (Who Should Run a Legislature, The Speaker
or the Members? Also: Is It a Sin to Tell a Lie.)
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291. April 19, 2006
Must Work for Food
(Has Dependency Reached
Its El Alamein? Mayor Rejects
Welfare Chief's Proposal to Seek Waiver
of Federal Regulation That Denies Food Stamps
to Applicants Who Refuse to Work or to Seek
Work.)
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290. April 13, 2006 Lame Duck Bites Solons
(Gov. Pataki's 202
Budget Vetoes Set Stage For Albany Showdown As Legislators Want
to Override. Issues to go to Court of Appeals.)
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289. April 4, 2006 Spendalot
(Backdoor Borrowing
Balances Big Budget.)
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288. March 30, 2006 Spend, Spend, Borrow,
Borrow
($11 Billion
to Build Schools With New
State Borrowing Agreed to by Bruno, Silver.)
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287. March 23, 2006 Coyotes' Seven Year Itch
(Henry J. Stern Recalls
Coyote Visitations In Bronx And Manhattan
Over The Years.)
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286. March 14, 2006
The Sun Interview, 3/15 Forum
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285. March 3, 2006 Law Says No, Pix Say
Yes
(A Passel Of Laws Unenforced Is An Issue For The Justice System. Can
Law And Reality Reconcile.)
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284. February 24, 2006
Pirates With Camcorders (Bootleg Movies Are Sold Illegally
On New York Streets
And Subways. Should Police Seize
The Evidence.)
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283. February 14, 2006
Will You Still Need Me
? (Happy Birthday Mayor
Bloomberg! Tighten up on Employee Discipline,
Lighten up on the Ninth Greenwood.)
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282. February 9, 2006 Another Prague Spring? (Federal Judge
Opens Door to
Reform, The Case Now
Goes to Second Circuit;
State Chief Judge Kaye Seeks Panel.)
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281. February 3, 2006
When Justice Triumphed
(Federal Judge
Gleeson Upsets System Of Judicial Conventions
Through Which Party Bosses Made Supreme
Court Nominations Without Primary Elections.)
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