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Friday, June 03, 2011
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Stephen Reader
We've let the licensing law lapse and we have this architecture for a 21st century circumstance where we're dependent more and more upon electricity, what with cell phones and compute...
Friday, June 03, 2011
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Stephen Reader
Economists call it a coordination failure, and I think that's what we're seeing now. Because employment is so weak, people don't want to spend. Because people don't want to spend, com...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
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Stephen Reader
We're trying to get away from one-size-fits-all regulation. Towns come forward to the DEP and say, look, because of physical constraints or whatever, we can provide this much parking;...
Friday, May 27, 2011
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Stephen Reader
Many of these states have a reputation for saying things which aren't true, They guarantee this and promise that and don't deliver. There's a natural tendency for people then to be sk...
Friday, May 27, 2011
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Stephen Reader
It opens up a Pandora's box about what we can actually do with recidivist corporations who are doing us in. I'd like to see the same kind of rule applied to Wall Street; the crimes in...
Thursday, May 26, 2011
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Stephen Reader
The Justice Department just approved New York's right to count prisoners in their home districts, rather than in their county of incarceration. How will that change the state legislative map in a year when redistricting reform already has blood boiling in Albany?
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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Stephen Reader
All but four Republicans already voted for the plan and they're running in districts just like New York 26 (or more Democratic) next year. Six were carried by Obama in 2008. So they p...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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Stephen Reader
[Christie] said, 'Listen, it's not just about money. We've been spending money in urban areas, committing money to building schools in these districts, and not getting results.'
— WN...
Friday, May 20, 2011
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Stephen Reader
With a historic vote on the evening of June 24, the New York State Senate passed a same-sex marriage bill -- effectively legalizing gay marriage, with previous approval in the Assembly and Governor Cuomo intending to sign the bill.
Friday, May 20, 2011
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Stephen Reader
When, as yesterday, the president goes country to country and tries to rationalize the accommodation of Bahrain's repression, leaves Saudi Arabia out altogether, then celebrates the...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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Stephen Reader
It was not something that one or two banks was doing, so I think you're going to find that the probe will probably expand to all firms that were large in the area of securitizing mo...
Monday, May 16, 2011
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Stephen Reader
Donald Trump released a statement Monday announcing he would not seek the Republican nomination in 2012.
Monday, May 16, 2011
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Stephen Reader
The reason we went in was not simply to get bin Laden; in fact, it was to stabilize Afghanistan so that it can no longer serve as a sanctuary for international terrorists. Most fa...
Friday, May 13, 2011
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Stephen Reader
On Thursday, Michael Bloomberg said New York City doesn't subsidize the financial industry. Two sentences later, Bloomberg doubled down on his own claim: the city doesn't subsidize any industries.
That raised our eyebrows.
Friday, May 13, 2011
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Stephen Reader
It looks as if the Ryan budget takes as its special target programs that serve the poorest and most vulnerable of Americans. Maternal and child health grants, WIC programs, food sta...
Friday, May 13, 2011
Twenty years ago, just as indie rock started to be called indie rock, John Darnielle founded one of its great bands — The Mountain Goats. The New Yorker called Darnielle "America's best non-hip hop lyricist"; his songs are moody, literary, some might say a bit navel-gazey. ...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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Stephen Reader
I guarantee you this: they had—Media Matters, ACORN, the mainstream media—everyone had the full context and no way to explain away the behavior. They had to try and deflect on us that...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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Stephen Reader
Competition is good for everybody, I think. Hunts Point is in the Bronx, there are 3,200 jobs, and we're fighting very hard to attract them to New Jersey. The 3,200 people who can m...
Monday, May 09, 2011
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Stephen Reader
Voices from Washington were quite convinced that if only we get to bin Laden, if only we get rid of his senior lieutenants, there will be less reason to stay in Afghanistan and the ...
Monday, May 09, 2011
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Stephen Reader
At this point, we just don't know what Skelos might gain or lose from allowing a vote. Does he want to clear it out this year because it's not an election year? Take LGBT money that...