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NEW YORK CIVIC: One Small Step
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Friday, October 28, 2011. Pension Reform Agreed Upon,. But Will the Promises Be Kept? By Henry J. Stern. October 28, 2011. The city's antiquated pension system has long been in need of streamlining and updating. The agreement reached yesterday. By Mayor Bloomberg, Comptroller Liu and leading labor unions provides hope that 2012 will be a year of pension reform, but such hopes have previously arisen and been dashed on the rocks of political reality. It is one thing for public officials to disagree on a po...
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NEW YORK CIVIC: Dance of the Districts
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011. Dance of the Districts. The reapportionment dance took a few steps forward and backward today as LATFOR (The New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research) held a public hearing in lower Manhattan. The committee has been traveling around the state to hear from the public, but that is no indication that they will respond to the complaints that have been received from academics, good government groups and potential candidates. The star witness at the hearing w...
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NEW YORK CIVIC: Spirit of '76
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Monday, September 26, 2011. How Do We Get. Today is the fifth day of fall in the year 2011. The political calendar has however raced ahead. We are in the midst of the 2012 Presidential campaign, and the 2013 Mayoral race is already under way. POLITICAL EVENTS IN NEW YORK STATE IN 1976. BTW, the Buckley in the Valeo case is not the author William F. Buckley. Who ran for Mayor in 1965, but his brother James. A Congressman, and Republican-Liberal Charles Goodell. Who had been appointed to the Senate in 1968...
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NEW YORK CIVIC: Wall Street Endures
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Friday, November 18, 2011. The Occupy Wall Street campaign is faltering, despite considerable public sympathy for the social issues which the protesters seek to publicize. Although there is widespread dissatisfaction with President Obama, the public holds Congress in even lower regard. Last month, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll, Congress registered a 9% approval rating. As always, the responsible approach in marginal cases is to seek balance, with freedom exercised with responsibility. A...
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Solomon Isaacs!: 01/01/2004 - 02/01/2004
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Mark Schmitt had a really good after-New Hampshire post on Wes Clark. It is quite a shame that when self-professed 'moderates' look at the Dem candidates, their best bet looks like Lieberman. That's really weak. It should be Clark. Posted by Alex at 1/31/2004 11:58:00 PM. Ruy Teixeira has a string on where John Kerry stands now. Posted by Alex at 1/30/2004 02:32:00 PM. Do read Kevin Drum's post on the economy today. Posted by Alex at 1/28/2004 02:14:00 AM. How I learned to stop worrying and love the Dean.
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Solomon Isaacs!: The Jack Bauer Rules?
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The Jack Bauer Rules? I must say, the return of 24 (awesome) in tandem with some using 24-esque scenarios to absolve. Laws on the other hand? Posted by Alex at 1/31/2005 04:15:00 PM. Thats what we call math. Inconsequential thoughts about DNC chair. Washington Monthly and Kevin Drum. Center for American Progress. Gotham Gazette (NYC Politics). Books I have enjoyed as of late. Strange Victory, by Ernest May. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West. All the Shah's Men, by Stephen Kinzer.
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Solomon Isaacs!: Movin' out
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I'm off to a new location, although I'll keep this around for a bit.probably no one chomping at the big to snare solomonisaacs.blogspot.com. Big hope for the new address, a return to frequency, an expansion of interests, mo' bells and whistles, who knows? Http:/ www.arbaker.typepad.com/. Posted by Alex at 6/13/2005 11:15:00 PM. Hey, you have a great blog here! You really are very talented and deserve an honest compliment, congradulations! I'm definitely going to bookmark you! While you read this, YOU sta...
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Solomon Isaacs!: 09/01/2004 - 10/01/2004
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On being a liberal. But the ensuing gridlock has shown its cracks in recent years. Bowing to political pressures, Bush has all but abandoned "starve the feds" rhetoric (regardless of his backers' true intent). The increasingly frequent omission of true believer anti-government rhetoric in American politics points to a time when we can again have substantive debates about how government should be shaped. Posted by Alex at 9/28/2004 11:01:00 PM. Fafblog on no-good stupid lousy swing voters and the politics...
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Solomon Isaacs!: 11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003
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Spinning the next generation. On the AARP's momentous decision to throw their weight behind Bush's Medicare bill. Novelli's reasoning about why the organization was compelled to support the bill, in spite of many members' strong disapproval, was that the younger members the AARP has been courting in the last several years, i.e., those not actually receiving Medicare yet, were receptive to the bill. Posted by Alex at 11/26/2003 01:51:00 PM. The power of Dean. Check out this case study. The consensus for t...
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