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September 24, 2011
Was Bloomberg's Case of White Mayor's Burden the Straw That Broke Ray Kelly's Back?
As we learned yesterday from the excellent reporting of WNYC's Ailsa Chang, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has ordered that cops stop arresting people for marijuana (or "marihuana," as the NYPD spells it) if the pot was never in public view. The timing of this announcement is curious. Ever sinc ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg: "We'll See" If The City Will Let Occupy Wall Street Continue
New Yorkers need "to help the banks" was Mayor Michael Bloomberg's message to the Occupy Wall Street crowd in his weekly radio appearance on the John Gambling show. "The protesters are protesting against people who make $40-50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet. That's the botto ... More >>
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October 3, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg Exposed On the Stand
Jane Rosenberg Just being there was humbling. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the founder of Bloomberg LP and the city's wealthiest citizen, sat in criminal court answering a hot series of questions about just the sort of shady political maneuvers and corrupting influence of money that have frequen ... More >>
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October 7, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street 'Trying To Destroy the Jobs of Working People'
Mayor Bloomberg fired a warning shot Friday at the city unions who have backed the Occupied Wall Street protests, saying "we're not going to have money to pay our municipal employees" if the financial sector takes a hit and New York's tax take goes down with it.
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October 13, 2011
City: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Must Agree to Cleaning Or Get Out [Updated]
via DJ Unicorn Thunder HeartsMayor Bloomberg visiting Occupy Wall Street.Yesterday evening Mayor Bloomberg visited Occupy Wall Street for a while, walking through the park and viewing the inhabitants (we missed him by about five minutes). What he saw combined with complaints from Brookfield O ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg Refers to His and Diana Taylor's 'Pillow Talk'
Mike Bloomberg's girlfriend Diana Taylor happens to sit on the board of directors of Brookfield Office Properties, the company that owns Zuccotti Park. This has raised some eyebrows, given Brookfield's tense relationship with the protesters occupying its property and the way the mayor and the ... More >>
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November 4, 2011
Bloomberg's Patience with Occupy Wall Street Wears Thin as Eviction Rumors Swirl
viaMayor Bloomberg visiting Occupy Wall Street a few weeks ago.Mike Bloomberg has started to publicly lose patience with the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park. Yesterday, he told the Observer that recent reports of crime and sexual assault in the park were "a very high priority" ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
Mike Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street Isn't So Bad!
Mayor Bloomberg appeared on Morning Joe this morning and was unusually generous about Occupy Wall Street, though he "doesn't know what a movement is."
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November 14, 2011
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor Andrew Cuomo Endorse the Respect for Marriage Act
Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Respect for Marriage Act, on a party line vote of 10 to 8. The bil, if passed, would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and make same-sex marriages legal through out the United States. (The bill will never pass, however, for it would ... More >>
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November 15, 2011
Bloomberg on Occupy Wall Street Zuccotti Raid: 'The Decision Was Mine and Mine Alone'
Mayor Bloomberg just held a press conference at City Hall to address last night's raid of Zuccotti Park. Bloomberg, accompanied by other city government top brass, said that the city had acted on Brookfield's request but that the decision to clear the park was "mine and mine alone." Bloomberg ... More >>
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November 21, 2011
Bloomberg, Kelly Finally Piss Off The Media; Furious Letters Being Written
The Bloomberg administration is being targeted by the media right now for the NYPD's banning and arresting of reporters during last week's expulsion of the Occupy Wall Street tent city. In a letter signed by media companies and press groups, New York Times lawyer George Freeman accuses the ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
The Occupy Wall Street Library: Librarians Display the Ruins
Mike Bloomberg has already come under fire for just about every aspect of the late-night raid that cleared Occupy Wall Street out of Zuccotti last week. From reports of police violence, to keeping members of the press from observing the action, to disregarding a restraining order reopening th ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Mike Bloomberg, Commander-in-Chief of World's Seventh Biggest Army, Gets Taiwanese Animation Treatment [VIDEO]
Earlier this week, Mayor Bloomberg made a speech where he said has his "own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world." The speech was covered by Hunter Walker on the New York Oberserver's Politicker NY blog, along with this modest gem from the mayor: "I have my own State Depa ... More >>
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December 2, 2011
Diana Taylor, Bloomberg's Girlfriend and Sotheby's Board Member, Blasts Locked Out Art Handlers
Mayor Bloomberg's normally reserved companion, Diana Taylor, lashed out at locked out Sotheby's art handlers, who interrupted a planning commission meeting to question her about the stalled negotiations, according to a video of the incident posted on youtube. Union officials called on Gov. Cu ... More >>
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December 2, 2011
Bloomberg Takes Flak at Facebook Presser for Comment About Firing Teachers
Mayor Bloomberg, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg announced today that Facebook is opening an engineering office in New York City. Though Facebook already has 100 employees in New York, this is their first engineering office outside the West Coast. It will open in early 2 ... More >>
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December 8, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg Congratulates @ElBloombito For Winning a Village Voice Web Award
The Village Voice Web Awards were last night, have you heard? People won stuff. People drank and it led to hangovers. And it looks as though Mayor Bloomberg/whoever runs his Twitter was in the loop, because his account tweeted a message of congratulations last night to @ElBloombito, winner of Best P ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg on OWS Raid: 'We Didn't Keep Anybody From Reporting'
Mayor Bloomberg addressed (again) the NYPD's treatment of press at the Zuccotti Park raid in November during his weekly radio appearance on the John Gambling show this morning. The city has come under heavy criticism for not even allowing credentialed press anywhere near the action that night ... More >>
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December 14, 2011
Poll: More Than Half of New Yorkers Disapprove of Bloomberg's Handling of OWS
A new Quinnipiac poll shows that fifty-one percent of New Yorkers disapprove of the way the mayor has handled Occupy Wall Street. Despite this, Bloomberg has a steady overall approval rating of 49 percent. Sixty-two percent like the man personally, and 52 percent approve of "most of his polic ... More >>
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December 27, 2011
New Yorkers Now Have Longer Life Expectancy Than Ever, Mayor Announces
Back in September we noted that Mayor Bloomberg announced that the amount of New Yorker smokers was down to 14 percent. But then, we wondered what might be the next killer of our population. Could it be "getting old and dying?" Well, rest easy, because Mayor Bloomberg announced today that New ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
Crime Down in New York City for 2011; Central Park After Dark Now Just 'Boringly Safe'
At Mayor Bloomberg's press conference about public safety today, he announced that crime in the city has been driven down 34 percent in the last 10 years, and that serious crime is down overall this year compared to last year, factoring in a change in the state's definition of felony assault. ... More >>
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January 6, 2012
Mike Bloomberg to Cuomo: Don't Bring Us Back to the Bad Old Days Before Food Stamps Fingerprinting
Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to go back to the "bad old days" and Mayor Michael Bloomberg won't stand for it. That's what Bloomberg said this morning on his weekly appearance on WOR's "The John Gambling Show," when discussing food stamps policy. This latest governor-mayor showdown concerns Cuomo ... More >>
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January 6, 2012
Occupy Wall Street Goes to Bloomberg's House to Protest Press Arrests
Protesters on Mayor Bloomberg's block today.Occupy Wall Street protesters staged their second public action of the year this afternoon, returning to Mayor Mike Bloomberg's Upper East Side townhouse to protest the NYPD's treatment of journalists covering the movement. But to the disappointmen ... More >>
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January 9, 2012
Mike Bloomberg and Christine Quinn Cut Ribbon for Bronx's First City-Sponsored Business Incubator
Mayor Mike Bloomberg fondly remembers his days as a small business owner and likes to share the joy of successful entrepreneurship with New York City start-ups. This time, in the Bronx. The mayor announced today the first city-sponsored business incubator in the borough, which will be part ... More >>
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January 11, 2012
Mike Bloomberg Is Out to 'Fix' Our Drinking Problem
You know how our dear Mayor Bloomberg went after our soda-chugging habit, and how, on the occasion, we enjoy delicious trans-fat-full French fries, and how much salt is in our food? He also made us stop smoking in public places, one after the next, and installed giant calorie counts on the me ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
Mike Bloomberg's State of the City: Education, Jobs, Innovation, Lady Gaga, Innovation
Not a lot of surprises at the mayor's State of the City speech today at Morris High School in the Bronx. In an auditorium inside the school, Mike Bloomberg spoke for about an hour on how to improve public education and the economy and how to make this great city the capital of innovation. Tha ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
Bill de Blasio, John Liu, and Scott Stringer: Mr. Mayor, Why Did You Talk About Teachers That Way?
After Mayor Mike Bloomberg finished his State of the City speech in the Bronx, Runnin' Scared tripped over many reporters and shoved a recorder in the face of a few relevant pols to get their reactions. We reached Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Comptroller John Liu, and Manhattan Borough Pr ... More >>
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January 13, 2012
Mike Bloomberg: I'm Not Living in a Fantasy World, Students Are the Priority
After the mayor's State of the City speech yesterday, everyone's been talking about Bloomberg's words on education and teacher evaluation (less so, his mentions of Lady Gaga or Words With Friends). We caught up with a few predictably critical pols yesterday afternoon in the Bronx who all vo ... More >>
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January 14, 2012
Cruise Ship Runs Aground In Italy; Imam Sentenced in JFK Terror Plot; Bloomberg Bets Cheesecake On Giants Game
viaA cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Italy near the island Giglio Friday night, killing three and leaving 69 missing. The ship "hit an obstacle" that tore a 160 foot gash in the ship, according to a coast guard official. Occurring around dinner time, one woman said she heard a "scrap ... More >>
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January 16, 2012
Mayor Mike Bloomberg Heckled At MLK Event
Sam LevinIt wasn't exactly the warmest reception the mayor has ever received. Mike Bloomberg stopped by the House of Justice in East Harlem earlier today -- where apparently most local electeds that matter (or hope to matter) were making their MLK appearances. Folks in the audience packed ti ... More >>
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January 20, 2012
Mike Bloomberg: Remember, It Costs Money to Pay A Living Wage
In his weekly radio show, Mayor Mike Bloomberg took the opportunity to remind everyone that he's not the biggest fan of a living wage bill. It's been one of the hot-button political issues this month that put City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in a bit of a pickle. Basically, Quinn, a mayor ... More >>
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January 20, 2012
Mayors For Freedom to Marry Launches With Mike Bloomberg At The Helm
Being mayor of New York City is kind of like being president of the universe, so it's only fair that our very own Mike Bloomberg lead the effort in some national thangs, too. He already is one of two co-chairs for the coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns , and now he can add another "chai ... More >>
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January 22, 2012
Bloomberg Makes Mayoral Race Predictions In Post
In an interview with the New York Post published this weekend, Mayor Bloomberg weighed in on who he thinks might follow in his footsteps as the next mayor. "It's really hard to see the Democratic primary next year not being the real election," he told the Post. With that criteria, the Post p ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
New Teachers Union Ad Attacking Mayor Starts Today
Watch out, Mr. Mayor! The United Federation of Teachers is launching an ad campaign today that attacks Mike Bloomberg -- who has loudly criticized the union at a handful of public appearances this year. At his State of the City speech earlier this month, the mayor went after the UFT for insis ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
Bloomberg Cheers Cuomo's Teacher Evals Despite Increasing Flak from Educators
Great timing, Mike. On the same day that the United Federation of Teachers is unveiling a week's worth of primetime attack ads on Bloomberg, the mayor told Albany that he supports Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget plan -- including the metrics-minded school proposals that really piss off educators ... More >>
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January 26, 2012
Mike Bloomberg Hangs with 'Gossip Girl' Cast
Sam LevinYep, that's right, folks. Mayor Mike Bloomberg's press conference today was about Gossip Girl. The Lady Gaga-kisser upped his celebrity status by standing beside members of the cast and creative team of the television show at Queen's Silvercup Studios. Also beside him were a host ... More >>
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January 27, 2012
Mayor Mike Bloomberg on UFT Ad Attacking Him: 'I Didn't See It'
Mayor Mike Bloomberg, on his weekly radio show this morning, said he doesn't watch a lot of television. Well, actually, Mr. Mayor, that is pretty contradictory to some statements you made yesterday next to cast members from Gossip Girl. Get your facts straight, dude! The mayor -- so versed ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
State Democrats Will Propose Minimum Wage Raise Today
Fast food workers and retail employees everywhere -- rejoice! Democrats in Albany, led by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, will today propose a raise in the New York state minimum wage, from $7.25 an hour to $8.50. The proposal will also include a provision mandating automatic increases in th ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
Electeds Protest Mayor's Ban On Religious Institutions Using Public School Space
Sam LevinProtestors earlier this month speaking out against Bloomberg's plan to ban religious institutions from public schoolsThey're back! And a bit louder this time. Elected officials and religious leaders rallied yesterday to protest Mayor Mike Bloomberg's ban on religious institutions u ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Mike Bloomberg: Let's Fire Bad Teachers!
The city's teachers don't like Mike, but his sudden change of heart on a much-hated teacher evaluation law could smooth things over: he wants it to be easier to fire bad teachers but let poorly rated ones appeal their bad evals. After pushing repeatedly for unpopular evals -- even making a ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Report Gives Mike Bloomberg's Polemic School Closure Policy an 'F'
A new report released last week comes down hard on the mayor's record of shutting down schools that aren't performing well. Mike Bloomberg and the Deptartment of Education can add it to the list of grievances and criticisms that have been thrown at them so far this year (He demonizes teachers ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
Students Rally Against DOE's Proposal to Shut Down Legacy High School
Yesterday, four electeds who hope to be mayor in 2013 rallied on the steps of City Hall to criticize the current mayor for his policies of closing failing public schools. And last week, a group of electeds -- alongside angry parents and students -- rallied around a new report that says Mike B ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Mayor Bloomberg Will Announce Preliminary City Budget Today
Mayor Bloomberg is expected to take a break from scrapping with the teacher's union today to unveil his preliminary plan for next year's city budget. The city currently faces a $2 billion budget shortfall, thanks to unexpected costs incurred from October's freak blizzard and Hurricane Irene, ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
NYPD Arrests for Marijuana Soar in 2011, Second Highest on Record
This chart went up yet again in 2011The folks at the Drug Policy Alliance -- who we talked to extensively for last year's Voice feature "The White Mayor's Burden" -- put out a scathing press release yesterday writing that the NYPD arrested 50,680 New Yorkers for marijuana in 2011, making it t ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Mayor's Budget: No Tax Increases and No Layoffs of Teachers, Police Officers, or Firefighters
Sam LevinElected officials and nonprofit groups rallied this morning before the mayor announced his budget.Announcing the city's annual budget today, Mayor Mike Bloomberg said he would not be increasing taxes and he would not be laying off teachers, police officers, or firefighters. He said i ... More >>
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February 4, 2012
Uproar Over Bronx Teen's Death By Police Officer; Bloomberg Supports Komen's Reversal; Occupy D.C. Raided
Bronx residents rallied last night to protest the death of Ramarley Graham, an unarmed 18-year-old that was shot and killed by a police officer Thursday in the bathroom of his own apartment. According to the New York Times, the officer that killed Graham has been "stripped of his gun and badg ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
The Mayor and Health Department Will Keep Scaring You With Gross Obesity Ads
Mike Bloomberg thinks that it's perfectly OK to scare you into behaving -- at least when it comes to what you eat. The mayor's office and health department say that their in-your-face public health ads -- one of which features a fake amputee -- are necessary shock tactics to get people to ma ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
Councilman Jumaane Williams Pressures NYPD, Mayor to Address Police Accountability
Sam LevinCity Councilman Jumaane Williams at a recent rally.Last week, cops chased Ramarley Graham, 18, to the bathroom of his apartment where they shot and killed him. His grandmother was at home at the time and witnessed the shooting. The Bronx teen -- who may have been trying to flush ma ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
New Yorkers Trust Teachers More Than Michael Bloomberg: Study
New Yorkers are hot for teachers: A new Quinnipiac University poll has found that the city's residents think that profs are more likely to protect the interest of public school kids than Mayor Mike Bloomberg. Fifty-six percent of voters trust the teachers union to help children learn, while ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Mayor Bloomberg Slams Results of Port Authority Audit, Says WTC Memorial is Worth the Cost
Mayor Bloomberg has slammed the results of an audit that called the Port Authority "a challenged and dysfunctional organization" with "ineffective cost controls," saying that the cost of the World Trade Center memorial is worth it for the sake of New York's reputation. "Can you imagine? If A ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
Churches Prepare for Eviction from School Spaces; Mayor Says He's Not Backing Down
Sam LevinPastor Sal Sabino, left, will not be allowed to lead worship services in school spaces.Next Sunday, Pastor Sal Sabino, from Heavenly Vision Christian Center, will conduct his worship services on the street. That's because this coming Sunday is the last time he and his congregation ... More >>
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