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• NYCs Open Data to Drive Growth in 2010?

  
  NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut digital media technology news — Authority: 522
  In an interview with The Business Insider , Steve Rosenbaum , founder and CEO of Magnify.net ,  spoke about the impact government will have on technology in 2010.  Specifically, Rosenbaum predicts that Mayor Bloombergs government data transparency initiative will bring new opportunities to both the private and ...
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• Sen. Chuck Schumer mum on Senate health care bill that could bring cuts to New York

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - When the feds whack New York, you usually hear Chuck Schumer lead the outrage. But on health care, hes been practically mute about some mighty hits headed our way. Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Paterson both slammed the Senate bill Monday, charging it would cost the city more than $500 ...
  6 days ago

• Exiting as City Comptroller, William C. Thompson Jr. Has Options by Sam Roberts - NYTimes.com

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 431
  Read original... William C. Thompson Jr., the city comptroller, weighed the options for his political future in an interview this week in his office. Ruth Fremson - NY Times Having made last month’s mayor’s race much closer than most anyone had expected, Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. has been ...
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• Street Renamed for Sean Bell

  
  Strange Fruit — Authority: 132
  Great NYC now we have a permanent reminder of that serious miscarriage of justice....real cute. And the council members who protested the bill can kick rocks. This isnt even the least the city can do for that family. The City Council yesterday approved renaming a Queens street after police-slaying victim Sean ...
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• Mayor Bloombergs gun sales investigation costs city $1.5M

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Mayor Bloombergs crusade against guns comes with a price tag attached. Bills obtained by the Daily News show the city Law Department has paid almost $1.5 million to Kroll Associates, a high-end detective firm, for its undercover probe of out-of-state gun sales. The mayor announced the results of that investigation ...
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• Big Blue Building: Massive College Point Police Academy Set to Break Ground

  
  greenbuildingsNYC — Authority: 116
  Even for those of us whose understanding of what police academies should be like is centered around Steve Guttenberg and The Guy Who Makes Noises , the news that NYPDs main training facility is over 40 years old is kind of alarming. This is a big city, it requires a large and well-trained police force and... well, ...
  2 weeks ago

• ACORN, the Working Families Party and Corruption: Part 2, Who’s Doing All the Lobbying?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  [Ed: This excerpt is the second in a series of articles originally reported at City Hall. Go here for Part I in the series. Lead reporter on City Hall investigation was Edward-Isasc Dovere.] The Working Families Organization, a tax-exempt 501(c)4, was legally created with a certificate of incorporation filed with ...
  2 weeks ago

• NYC’s Best App contest: where’s the bed bug transparency?

  
  Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com — Authority: 123
  Wired reports today in its Epicenter blog about the NYC BigApps contest, which allows you to vote for any of 85 applications; the BigApps site says it’s A software challenge in keeping with New York City’s drive to become more transparent, accessible, and accountable. That’s all good, right? The prizes ...
  2 weeks ago

• City and state take different tones in linking test scores to tenure

  
  GothamSchools Newsroom — Authority: 602
  Mayor Michael Bloomberg is aggressively pushing for the city to link test scores to tenure decisions this year, but state education officials are less confident that the tests are a reliable measure of progress and are proceeding with caution. Using test scores as a factor in teacher evaluations is one of the most ...
  2 weeks ago

• NYC Mayor Bloomberg Looks to Danish Offshore Windfarms for Inspiration

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 727
  Johan Spanner for The New York Times As the world’s eyes zeroed in on this week’s COP15 climate change talks , New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg gazed on a much more placid scene – Denmark’s 209 megawatt Horns Rev 2 , the largest offshore wind farm in the world. Bloomberg admired the overhead ...
  2 weeks ago

• New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg stops by 98.7 KISS FM’

  
  Radio Facts — Authority: 148
  New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg stops by 98.7 KISS FM’s 7th Annual KISS Cares Coat Drive on Friday December 11th as The D.L. Hughley Morning Show broadcast live from Regal Cinema in Union Square . Over 1,000 coats were collected for New York Cares to distribute to shelters and organizations that help those in ...
  2 weeks ago

• News Of The Day

  
  Talk Bronx New York — Authority: 124
  Gov. David Paterson insisted the $750 million in scheduled payments to schools and local governments that will be withheld tomorrow are not a “cut” or an “impoundment.” “The state has run out of money,” Paterson declared. “…We think we are well within the bounds of legal authority.” NYSUT is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Too many guns in NY? There arent any guns in NY!

  
  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 158
  http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/2538-nyc-mayor-bloomberg-qtoo-many-gunsq And then theres this! A Google search to see whos carrying guns (certainly not us!): http://www.google.com/search?client=qsb-win&rlz=1R3GGLL_enUS357&hl=en&q=PUBLIC+OFFICIALS+WHO+CARRY+GUNS And this about ...
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• Empire State of Mind: TKTS, Broadway Are New York

  
  Broadway.tv Blog — Authority: 136
  Jay Z Knows New York & Broadway’s Infulance Empire State of Mind is a pretty great song. Watching the music video above (on repeat, 13 times) at home on a cold New York City Saturday evening, as any self respecting Broadway enthusiast would, we noticed a strong Broadway theme. Notice the shots in Times Square, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hipsters repaint bike lanes in brush off to Hasids

  
  Mountain Sage — Authority: 135
  If the bike paths were truly a safety hazard that’s one thing, but if the scantily clad cyclists are the real issue because of a religious issue, then that’s on the Hasids.  It’s really not up to others to make their religion easy for them.  Shame on Mayor Bloomberg if he caved to religious pressure to remove ...
  2 weeks ago

• Community Boards Fear Mayoral Hit List by Joe Maniscalco - Courier Life

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 431
  Read original... Like school boards, and the doomed dodo bird before them, members of Brooklyn’s community boards are on edge this week fearing that Mayor Mike Bloomberg is intent on putting them on a “slippery slope to oblivion.” “I see a parallel between community boards and school boards,” Community ...
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• NYC Climate Summit Puts the Focus on Food

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 422
  Get rich quick! Lose weight fast! We squander billions each year on scams that promise easy money and effortless weight loss. Still, the pounds pile up, the money doesn’t, and our tanking bank balances and spiking weight distract us from the more remote, abstract problem of climate change. But we could find true ...
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• ‘It’s All Their Fault’: Dept. of Homeless Services Blame the Victim as Lawsuit Alleges Denial of Shelter

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 511
  PHOTO: NYC.gov DHS Commissioner Robert Hess, on the left, with Mayor Bloomberg, center, at a Dec. 22 appearance. A Dec. 9 lawsuit against New York City alleges that homeless men and women are sleeping on benches, floors, and dining room tables, in violation of 1980s-era settlements with the city which established ...
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• Copenhagen Climate Conference: New York City is among the Future Cities

  
  Corporate and Responsible — Authority: 91
  All eyes and ears are tuned for the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen (December 7-18). Many small and large organizations are undertaking actions to encourage, support, and persuade their countries representatives to make important decision and right commitments. The type and number ...
  3 weeks ago

• NYC Mayor Bloomberg Cuts Back on Greener Greater Buildings Plan

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 727
  Last Friday, NYC Mayor Bloomberg announced that he would be dropping a measure that was a part of the ambitious Greener, Greater Buildings Plan (GGBP) which called for buildings over 50,000 square feet to undergo audits to determine what renovations would be required to make them more energy efficient. When ...
  3 weeks ago

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