Amy Eddings

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The City Council has 51 members, and a schedule chock full of meetings and hearings. But is it effective against a strong mayor and should there be changes to the way the Council operates? The latest issue of City Limits takes on the issue of ...

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This week is Holy Week for Christians, and churches across the city are flooded with parishioners, preparing for Easter. Jesuit priest James Martin of Saint Ignatius Loyola Church on the Upper East Side says giving things up for Lent this year has an added poignancy.

MARTIN: ...

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In an unusual early start to his campaign, Mayor Bloomberg is already opening campaign offices, bringing in endorsements, organizing robocalls, polling and, as of today, advertising. Also today, the mayor found himself fending off questions about a New York Times report that his campaign is ...

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Police say they have no reason to doubt the authenticity of a letter sent to an upstate TV station, forecasting last week's mass shooting in Binghampton. Police chief Joe Zikusky says the letter that apparently was written by the shooter, Jiverly Wong, has been handed ...

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Today marks the 15th anniversary of the start of the genocide in Rwanda. Over the next 100 days in 1994, more than one million people -- minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus -- were killed. Among those dead -- the parents, siblings and grandparents of then-10-year-old ...

In happier days, former Governor Spitzer with DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Former governor Eliot Spitzer shed new light on the prostitution scandal that brought him ...

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New Yorkers' opinion of Governor David Paterson is so low, many think he should reconsider running for re-election. A new poll released by Quinnipiac University shows voters disapprove of the job Paterson is doing, 60 percent to 28 percent. That's the lowest approval rating EVER ...

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Even as City Council economists predict a worsening economy, Speaker Christine Quinn is pressing ahead with her plan to eliminate income taxes on New York's poorest households. She says it's possible if the budget is tightened.

QUINN: I think it is very important that the city ...

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Lawmakers in Albany are still trying to come up with a way to rescue the MTA, and prevent big fare hikes and service cuts. The latest idea: a 50 cent fee on all cab rides. The news has angered cabbies, who say the fee would ...

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Governor Paterson and leaders of the Assembly and Senate announced a deal that brings sweeping reforms to New York's 1970s-era Rockefeller drug laws. The bill gives judges the discretion to send addicted, nonviolent offenders to rehab, instead of imposing mandatory prison sentences.

Drug abuse is an ...

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New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine has been given the authority to force state workers to take unpaid furloughs. The state's Civil Service Commission adopted an emergency rule today, during a meeting that drew an angry crowd of several hundred union members. Four people were arrested. ...

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Despite budget problems, and his successful, but hard-fought, bid to extend term limits so he can run again, voters still like Mayor Bloomberg. The latest Quinnipiace Universtiy poll shows the mayor with an approval rating of 64 percent. But it also found that 55 percent ...

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Governor Paterson says the State Senate is risking sending the MTA back into the bad old days of the late 70s by delaying any decision on how to finance its capital budget.

PATERSON: Unfortunately there seems to be belief that these types of issues can be ...

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A judge says he'll decide within a week whether Bank of America has to cough up a list of performance bonuses given to top employees of Merrill Lynch, days before Merrill was acquired by Bank of America. State Supreme Court Justice Bernard Fried didn't indicate ...

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A popular state tax credit for TV and film production has run out of funds. Actors, crew members and union reps are asking Governor Paterson to extend the credit, and make it permanent. Local movie producer John Penotti says that without the credit, jobs will ...

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Bernard Madoff was led away from a federal courtroom in Lower Manhattan in handcuffs, after he pleaded guilty to all 11 counts of fraud in a massive Ponzi scheme that wiped out many people's investments. More than 100 spectators crammed into the courtroom.

Madoff did not ...

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In the battle against bedbugs, a possible new ally. The City Council is proposing the creation of a Bedbug Advisory Board, to help New Yorkers fight the pests. City Council speaker Christine Quinn says the board would include an entomologist, or bug scientist, and an ...

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New Yorkers who download music from the internet, get haircuts, and belong to a gym have dodged potential taxes on those activities. Governor Paterson reached an agreement with state lawmakers to pull the unpopular taxes from his budget proposal, and use federal stimulus money to ...

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New Jersey Governor Corzine outlined a doomsday budget that returns state spending to 2006 levels, in order to bridge a $7-billion funding gap.

The biggest casualties are the state's property tax rebate program, and state workers' pension plans. The governor wants to end property tax rebates ...

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The meaning of Bearn Stearns' demise, one year later.