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Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
This is probably good news for Bill Owens. Roll Call : Accountant Doug Hoffman is seeking a re-match against Rep. Bill Owens (D) in 2010, after losing a Nov. 4 special election in upstate New York by approximately 3,000 votes. In a lengthy message on his campaign Web site, Hoffman wrote he is moving "full speed ahead to 2010," after deciding not to contest the election results, which were...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
NEW YORK | A passenger jet bound for Ohio aborted its takeoff at LaGuardia Airport after its pilots got an engine fire signal, causing delays at the airport just before the holiday. A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman says the AirTran Airways Flight 206 aborted it's takeoff and came to a stop on runway 13 at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. An airline spokeswoman says the Boeing 717 with 114 passengers...
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Kate Wollman Rink in Prospect Park opens for the season on Thanksgiving Day, November 26 at 10:00 a.m. (weather permitting – call (718) 287-6431 to confirm) Admission is: Adults: $5 (ages 15 and up) Children (14 and under) and Seniors: $3 Skate Rental: $6.50 (tax included)
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Brooklyn Beat of Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn writes: Along with the usual, traditional Thanksgiving Day Fare, tonite we were thinking of making polenta with cranberries which we saw in the NY Times last week (101 holiday side dishes), and our new tradition (from last year, I just started it), of Yorkshire Pudding which is fun in an Angleterre sort of way. I have friends who always celebrate Thanksgiving...
TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Someone at a company called Tableseed analysed all the Associated Press "strange news" stories that were released in the past year. The state with the greatest number of such stories was Florida, followed by New Hamshire (?) and Alaska. The top ten cities yielding strange stories were... 1) New York City, NY 2) Lincoln, NE 3) Madison, WI 4) Philadelphia, PA 5) Chicago, IL 6) Cinncinnati,...
Three Wise Men (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Wikileaks, an aggregator and publisher of sensitive corporate and government information, has somehow come into possession of over half a million texts sent in the period shortly before and immediately after the 9/11 attacks (via BoingBoing): Site operators say they plan to start rolling out the texts beginning at 3:00 a.m. New York time, paced to [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
NEW YORK -- Federal officials say a couple has been charged with sex trafficking of a young woman from Mexico, who was beaten for years and held as prisoner in a Brooklyn home.
LUSTY LADY (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
I often forget to email my updates to the Backspace mailing list (if you're a writer, do consider joining), but this month, I didn't forget. That led to emailing and then talking with the wonderful Karen Dionne, thriller writer and Backspace organizer, who invited me to speak at the 2010 Backspace Writers Conference which will be held in New York May 28-29, right after BEA. We're still working out...
CBS 3 (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Scott Hartnell scored from the high slot with 5:27 left, and Brian Boucher made 28 saves in Philadelphia Flyers' 2-1 victory over the New York Islanders on Wednesday night.
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 56 minutes ago
Wikileaks is releasing over half a million intercepted messages from a 24-hour period surrounding the 9/11 terrorist attacks, sent over alphanumeric text pagers that "range from Pentagon, FBI, FEMA, and New York Police Department exchanges, to computers reporting faults at investment banks inside the World Trade Center." Here's one batch . The message logs are raw in the extreme: they're...
News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Five men accused of plotting the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and detained at Guantánamo Bay will finally be brought to justice. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the men, including self-described mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, will be taken to New York City for trial in a federal court. That is an important affirmation, for all the world to see, of this nation’s profound...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
NEW YORK -- An activist Web site has posted what it says are 573,000 pager messages sent on Sept. 11, 2001.
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Graphic designer/urban planner Candy Chang has created a set of flash cards on New York tenants' rights that she tells us, "translates scary legal jargon into a fun and friendly format." Learn about painting your apartment, privacy, security deposits, rent stabilization, repairs, and all the other fun stuff you get along with being a tenant. The 30-card set is for purchase, and the $10 goes...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Days after leaving CNN earlier this month , speculation began that Lou Dobbs might consider running for Senate in 2012, challenging Democrat Robert Menendez. Now he's been confirming that the thought has crossed his mind—as has the idea of running for President at some point. Earlier this week, Dobbs said he was thinking about the White House and that he was "be talking some more with some...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Yesterday, the NY Times reported on a 13-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome who hid in the subway system nearly two weeks. Francisco Hernandez didn't want to go home, because he had gotten into trouble at school and was afraid of his parents' reaction, so he rode three different subway lines in four boroughs for 11 days in October. His mother says the police didn't do enough to find him, but a...
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burnard97fyq | 11/24/2009
NEW YORK – The vicious hair-pulling of an opponent was inexcusable. But prominent advocates of women's sports say that so, too, has been much of the commentary generated by the popular video of college soccer player Elizabeth Lambert's combative tactics in a recent game. "Catfight" has been a term commonly used in cyberspace reactions to the video clip now seen by millions of people around the world....
zaria | 11/20/2009
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sallydog | 11/19/2009
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