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ANNOUNCING NETROOTS NEW YORK!
Hey, folks. Some exciting news to announce today. Netroots New York, a project of Organizing 2.0 and Netroots Nation, is pleased to announce our inaugural conference in New York City on December 17th,...
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Extorting Schenectady: New York SPCA Shows True Colors
New Revenue Scheme for Animal Extremist Innovator Schenectady SPCA sets itself up for 50% off the top . . . thanks to its lawsuit against the Sheriff Private persons associated on a volunteer basis...
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What Democracy Looks Like
As many of you know, I was a regular around these parts prior to moving to Ohio in 2008. This year, Ohio is near the national forefront on election day, as Senate Bill 5, Governor Kasich's attempt to...
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A very good night.
Ladies and gentlemen, Being half an hour since the polls closed in New York, we're still waiting for most of our local results. But elsewhere in the nation, it's been a very good night for our side. In...
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"Avenue Jew"
That is what some vandal or vandals changed a sign at the Avenue J train station in the Midwood neighborhood in Brooklyn to read. As of now, the sign has been removed and police are investigating this...
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U.S. Senate holding hearings on gun violence prevention...
Today, the Senate is holding hearings featuring over 60 survivors of gun violence, as well as their family members. Notably, the group includes 13 survivors or family members of victims of the shooting...
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#N17 Reax Roundup: A Truly Awful Haul From The NYC Media
Thought it might be useful to take a look at how the local dead tree media are playing what went down yesterday. And I have a question for the NYC media this morning. After week when Mike Bloomberg...
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Cuomo Offers Enormous Tax-Credits To Defense Contractor Threatening To Move
In NY's race to the bottom, we hear Gov. Cuomo just agreed to grant $40 million in tax credits over five years to BAE whose Johnson City facilities were damaged by Hurricane Irene flooding. In...
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Re-establishing the right of protest
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably...
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Citizens Union Releases Major Report On NY Redistricting
This is some quality work from the folks at Citizen's Union, though they still suck at promotion and distribution. There's a lot here,even for those of us who obsess over such things, and you can read...
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Baum implodes
Having lived in the Buffalo area for six years, I never thought I'd see the day when we'd actually cheer a Western New York business closing its doors. But that day was yesterday, when Steven J. Baum...
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Need A Little Inspiration This Morning?
Then you should probably watch this. It's kind of amazing.
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Score A Big One For #OccupyRochester
Here's a great story from Rochester to start your week. Victory for the Steidel Family: Wells Fargo and Freddie Mac Call Off Eviction! Just days after Take Back the Land Rochester and Occupy Rochester...
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Antisemitic Crime Wave Continues in Brooklyn
Swastikas were found in an apartment building elevator on Friday afternoon in Brooklyn's latest antisemitic hate crime. This time, the incident occurred in Williamsburg, a mixed neighborhood with a...
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Can't See the Forest for the Trees
(x-posted at Act Now) The 10 Regional Economic Development Councils tasked with providing ideas for job growth in New York State have published their reports. There are many good ideas in them. I also...
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Occupy as Wake-Up Call
Pretty much since the Occupy movement started, I've watched observers criticize it. Part of that, of course, was people opposed to its aims, and that wasn't surprising. There's also been a drumbeat of...
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Gingrich speaks, and signs, for Staten Island tea party
Newly minted front-runner Newt Gingrich spoke before a few hundred tea partiers on Staten Island, the Republican borough of NYC, this afternoon. The local tea party group, which fancies itself one of...
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I'd like to see someone ask Newt Gingrich whether he knows what an MSDS is.
It means Material Safety Data Sheet. It's a safety guide which tells you important facts about materials you may be handling or coming in contact with in your workplace. If you've worked a factory job,...
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A Tale of Two Governors (and Occupy)
Last night the Legislature and the Governor, in classic three-men-in-a-room fashion, passed a new tax bill complete with a unanimous Senate vote while the pages were still warm and no one had time to...
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