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Lost in the Ozone... (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Read original... Around 7 percent of registered Democrats voted in the New York City primary runoff last week, in which Councilman John C. Liu of Queens won the party’s nomination for city comptroller and Councilman Bill de Blasio of Brooklyn won the nomination for public advocate. With such low turnout, the roughly $15 million cost of the runoff meant that the election cost something like $72...
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New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... A; Column 0; Metropolitan Desk; CITY ROOM BLOGGING AT NYTIMES.COM/CITYROOM.; Pg. 24, 482 words, By SEWELL CHAN ... 90%); FRAUD & FINANCIAL CRIME (90%); WATER POLLUTION ( ... ... ENGINEERING (78%); IDENTITY THEFT (78%); INDICTMENTS (78%); ... NEW YORK, USA (94%) 3. The New York Times , October 29, 2009 Thursday, Late Edition - Final, Section A; Column 0; Metropolitan Desk; Pg....
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Aftermath News (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
NY Times | Oct 16, 2009 By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS and SEWELL CHAN A New York State judge on Friday suspended a health regulation that would compel hundreds of thousands of health care workers and hospital volunteers to be vaccinated for seasonal and swine flu. Justice Thomas J. McNamara, of State Supreme Court in Albany, issued the temporary restraining [...]
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GregsOpinion.com (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
» NYT: City of 8 Million Was a Ghost Town at the Polls (Sam Roberts) » NYT: Abysmal Turnout Spurs Criticism of Runoff System (Sewell Chan) A glimpse of what's ahead in December here in Houston? For a week, New...
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City Room (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
... de Blasio of Brooklyn is running against Mark Green, who was public advocate from 1994 to 2001.— Sewell Chan Mr. Liu showed up shortly after 10 a.m. with his wife at St. John Vianney Church in Flushing. He emerged from his blue van wearing a black suit and a purple tie with red stripes and said: “Good morning, everybody. What a lovely day.” He looked as if he were going to church;...
