Insert the usual “not an April Fools joke” disclosure here. Some diligent city council members took a long, hard look at what’s wrong with the city council. Oh sure, they could have tackled the usual suspects — chronic budget crises, unabashed pandering to government unions — but that would have been too obvious. No, what […]
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Yesterday Mayor Bloomberg announced the immediate cancellation of the city’s annual $400 property tax rebate checks. I always thought the rebate checks were a sham — they should have simply reduced property tax rate — but the canceling the program amounts to a de facto property tax hike. Mike is also proposing a 15% increase
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It seems like only yesterday… From Matt Davies blog. I couldn’t disagree more with the artist, who explains, “For what it’s worth, I think Bloomberg has been a mostly good mayor. I am not attempting to draw parallels to their respective mayoral terms. In that respect, I think Bloomberg is in a completely different league than
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On Meet the Press yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg expressed his full confidence in Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to steer us out of the current economic crisis: “Well, I think number one, Hank’s the right guy for now. He knows what goes on on Wall Street, he understands these complex financial instruments in a ways most people
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I know politics makes strange bedfellows, but this is ridiculous. NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg is on the ballot for President of the United States… in Virginia. And his running mate is none other than Congressman Ron Paul. Apparenly Virginia, unlike New York and most other states, does not require candidates file a certified letter of
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 Tired of drab gunmetal blue and black dominating your arsenal? Do a fashion makeover on your weaponry with The Bloomberg Collection of designer gun paints and camouflage. Wisconsin-based Lauer Custom Weaponry is honoring our hoplophobic mayor with a line of brightly colored paints for each of the 5 boroughs — Manhattan red, Bronx rose, Brooklyn
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With the string of recent shootings on college campuses, it’s not surprising that some of our best and brightest have figured out it sucks to defenseless. There’s a grassroots effort underway across the country to allow college students to carry concealed weapons on campus. That effort has spread upstate to Cornell University. Jacob Rieper at the NYSPRA
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