Back in January, I wrote about how the State Education Department was cutting off special services for homeschoolers. Today, the state senate passed a bill to restore those services. The assembly passed the companion bill on Monday, so now it goes to Gov. Paterson for his signature. As a libertarian, I have mixed feelings about […]
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Tenants in rent-regulated apartments are bracing for tonight’s meeting of the Rent Guidelines Board, when next year’s rent increases will be revealed. That rents will go up is inevitable — it’s just a question of by how much. However, they’re not going up everywhere. In fact, rents in non-regulated buildings are clearly going down lately.
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This week’s issue of The New Yorker has a wrap-up on everyone’s favorite almost-candidate of the Libertarian Party, Fran Powers of Staten Island. As everyone knows by now, Fran got a ton of media attention for seeking to run against his father, Republican Frank Powers, for the 13th Congressional District seat on Staten Island. Alas,
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The following is an open letter from Ron Ramo, Membership Director of the Manhattan Libertarian Party, to the Ron Paul Revolution: Fellow Revolutionaries, Although we still hope in our hearts of hearts for our friend and inspiration Ron Paul to become the next President of the United States, it seems this will be an unlikely
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Today’s AM New York featured an article highlighting public outrage against the MTA for requesting more money. It’s good that New Yorkers are realizing what a black hole the MTA truly is. John F Kennedy once dramatically said “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
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In addition to being a cutting-edge blog, Serf City is also a hard-hitting tabloid newspaper. The latest paper edition of Serf City is on the streets. Look for one of our black newsracks with the logo above in your neighborhood (provided your neighborhood is the upper east side, lower east side, the Village, Soho, or the financial
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The guys from Friction.tv came down to the Manhattan Libertarian Party nominating convention on Monday night and interviewed our congressional candidates Isaiah Matos (CD-14), Susan Overeem (CD-13) and Ron Ramo (who announced he was suspending his campaign just minutes after the completion of his interview).
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Under the broad cloak of fighting kiddie porn, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is effectively censoring large swaths of the Internet. Cuomo just strong-armed three of the largest ISPs — Verizon, Sprint and Time-Warner — into blocking access nationwide to sites that are allegedly used to distribute child pornography. This includes blocking access to
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As we previously reported, there is an insidious new mandatory vaccine bill that is being fast-tracked through the state legislature. I just received the following action alert from my lovely and talented wife Dawn: There is also another option – they are taking a poll by phone. All it takes is two 3 second phone
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The Manhattan Libertarian Party held its nominating convention last night to select its 2008 candidates. There’s one race in particular that everyone wants to know about: As the New York Times reported this morning, we selected a surprising candidate for the 13th Congressional District on Staten Island: The Libertarian Party selected Susan Overeem on Monday night
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