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June 21, 2011
Taxi Bill Letting Livery Drivers Pick Up Street Hails in Outer Boroughs Passes Assembly
Despite yellow cabs surrounding the New York Capitol building today to protest legislation that would let livery drivers pick up passengers who hail them in the outer boroughs and northern Manhattan, the Assembly has passed the bill in an 110-28 vote, reports the AP. Yellow cab drivers had ar ... More >>
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August 4, 2010
Shutting Upstate Jails for City Kids Has Made a Fiery Bronx Bureaucrat a Host of Enemies
People upstate consider the Bronx's Gladys Carrión Satan incarnate
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November 19, 2009
State Recognition of Out-of-State Gay Unions Again Upheld in Court
Back in 2008 the Alliance Defense Fund of Scottsdale, Arizona, and state senators Martin Golden and Serphin Maltese sued New York because Governor Paterson had directed state authorities to recognize gay marriages performed elsewhere. They lost in State Supreme Court. The Fund went back at it ... More >>
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July 17, 2009
$85 Million in Albany Member Items Disbursed for Parrot Adoption, Self-Esteem, Etc.
The state senate laid out its new member items, and it's hilarious or grim reading depending on whether you read it as a student of human nature, or as a taxpayer. Jimmy Vielkind has the list. The $85 million feedbag of discretionary items for senators' constituents includes $2 million for Pedro Es ... More >>
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June 12, 2009
Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared
On Third Avenue. Albany went coup-coup! Pedro Espada Jr. seized the state senate with the help of Hiram Monserrate and billionaire Tom Golisano. After some skirmishes, which saw Tom Duane appearing to lean GOP to save gay marriage, the Dems locked the chamber, but Espada got the key and the GOP w ... More >>
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June 10, 2009
Marty Golden Happy Now With His Pal Hiram
Back in January, senate Republicans called Hiram Monserrate a "ticking time bomb" who shouldn't be allowed to contaminate the august state senate chambers. Now, questions about that old girlfriend stabbing incident are just "nit picking" about their new pal Hiram.That's the latest harvest in the bum ... More >>
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May 28, 2009
Hebrew Academy Charter Panned, Jeered at Marine Park Hearing
The city is eager to put a charter school called Hebrew Language Academy, bankrolled by the Stenhardt Foundation for Jewish Life, in Marine Park. There have been objections from civil libertarians and from Diane Ravitch to the presumed religious nature of the school. But yesterday, GerritsenBeach. ... More >>
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April 20, 2009
Mike "Mad as Hell" Bloomberg Forgot to Phone Albany
Remember last month when Mayor Mike Bloomberg was really really angry over the state legislature's failure to deal with soaring MTA fare hikes? When he wanted us all to call up and, in our best Peter Finch "Network" imitation rant, tell those rascals in Albany that "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not goin ... More >>
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March 24, 2009
Monserrate Loses Chairmanship, Says Attack was "Accident"
State Senator Hiram Monserrate, who was indicted yesterday for attacking his girlfriend with glass (either a "slashing" or a "beating," depending on how you read it), will be allowed to keep his seat -- until he is thrown in prison, at least -- but has been been removed from the chairmanship of the ... More >>
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January 7, 2009
Monserrate Goes to Senate, But Loses Glasses
The Daily News says the surveillance tape that shows Hiram Monserrate dragging girlfriend Karla Giraldo around after he cracked a glass across her face does not support his allegation that the glass-smashing was an accident. "The woman looks scared out of her mind and trying to get away from this gu ... More >>
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January 5, 2009
Skelos Gets Union Bigs to Meet with Dem Albany Rebels
There is little news coming out of Albany, but the estimable Liz Benjamin notes an ominous sign for the state senate Democrats, whose hope to claim a majority in Wednesday's vote is clouded by a rebel faction of city senators: Republican leader Dean Skelos is arranging for representatives of 1199 SE ... More >>
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December 22, 2008
Monserrate Claims Gal Pal Bash an Accident; GOP May Block Him
There is little news coming out of Albany, but the estimable Liz Benjamin notes an ominous sign for the state senate Democrats, whose hope to claim a majority in Wednesday's vote is clouded by a rebel faction of city senators: Republican leader Dean Skelos is arranging for representatives of 1199 SE ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2008
Marty Golden's Got Some Golden Chutzpah on Monserrate Seat
There is little news coming out of Albany, but the estimable Liz Benjamin notes an ominous sign for the state senate Democrats, whose hope to claim a majority in Wednesday's vote is clouded by a rebel faction of city senators: Republican leader Dean Skelos is arranging for representatives of 1199 SE ... More >>
Columns
December 17, 2008
How the 'Gang of Three' Ties Up Senate Dems
There is little news coming out of Albany, but the estimable Liz Benjamin notes an ominous sign for the state senate Democrats, whose hope to claim a majority in Wednesday's vote is clouded by a rebel faction of city senators: Republican leader Dean Skelos is arranging for representatives of 1199 SE ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2008
9/11, 5 Boroughs
There is little news coming out of Albany, but the estimable Liz Benjamin notes an ominous sign for the state senate Democrats, whose hope to claim a majority in Wednesday's vote is clouded by a rebel faction of city senators: Republican leader Dean Skelos is arranging for representatives of 1199 SE ... More >>
Blogs
September 3, 2008
Big Gay-Marriage Win for Gov in State Supreme Court
There is little news coming out of Albany, but the estimable Liz Benjamin notes an ominous sign for the state senate Democrats, whose hope to claim a majority in Wednesday's vote is clouded by a rebel faction of city senators: Republican leader Dean Skelos is arranging for representatives of 1199 SE ... More >>
Blogs
August 25, 2008
Golisano's Senate Picks: Mostly (and in NYC, Only) Same-Old
There is little news coming out of Albany, but the estimable Liz Benjamin notes an ominous sign for the state senate Democrats, whose hope to claim a majority in Wednesday's vote is clouded by a rebel faction of city senators: Republican leader Dean Skelos is arranging for representatives of 1199 SE ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2007
Aftershock: 'Torture' v. Treatment, Act II
There is little news coming out of Albany, but the estimable Liz Benjamin notes an ominous sign for the state senate Democrats, whose hope to claim a majority in Wednesday's vote is clouded by a rebel faction of city senators: Republican leader Dean Skelos is arranging for representatives of 1199 SE ... More >>
Blogs
May 30, 2006
Preparing for a Higher 9-11 Toll
There is little news coming out of Albany, but the estimable Liz Benjamin notes an ominous sign for the state senate Democrats, whose hope to claim a majority in Wednesday's vote is clouded by a rebel faction of city senators: Republican leader Dean Skelos is arranging for representatives of 1199 SE ... More >>
NYC Life
March 30, 2004
Close-Up on Marine Park
There is little news coming out of Albany, but the estimable Liz Benjamin notes an ominous sign for the state senate Democrats, whose hope to claim a majority in Wednesday's vote is clouded by a rebel faction of city senators: Republican leader Dean Skelos is arranging for representatives of 1199 SE ... More >>
NYC Life
February 3, 2004
Close-Up on Bensonhurst
There is little news coming out of Albany, but the estimable Liz Benjamin notes an ominous sign for the state senate Democrats, whose hope to claim a majority in Wednesday's vote is clouded by a rebel faction of city senators: Republican leader Dean Skelos is arranging for representatives of 1199 SE ... More >>
NYC Life
September 30, 2003
Close-up on Sheepshead Bay
There is little news coming out of Albany, but the estimable Liz Benjamin notes an ominous sign for the state senate Democrats, whose hope to claim a majority in Wednesday's vote is clouded by a rebel faction of city senators: Republican leader Dean Skelos is arranging for representatives of 1199 SE ... More >>
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October 26, 1999
The Five Percent Solution
Fraction of Voters to Decide on Rudy's Referendum

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