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Public Advocate de Blasio Starts Citizen Campaign Calling On SEC To Flex Its Muscles To End Secret Corporate Spending In Elections
New York, NY – In advance of the Saturday anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has launched a campaign urging citizens to join him in demanding
Read More »Campaign Finance Reform in Albany
“Well, It’s a Start” (editorial, June 11), about the efforts of the New York State comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, to fix our broken system of campaign finance, gives me real hope that Albany can finally
Read More »City’s hospitals are sickening: study
New York Post New York City Patients in the metropolitan area are likelier to contract an illness in their local hospitals than are those in 36 other major urban areas, according to a disturbing survey. The New
Read More »Malpractice Cap Emerges as Key Issue in Budget Debate
Gotham Gazette New York City Ten years ago Jeremiah Taylor walked into a New York City hospital thinking he was going to undergo routine surgery on his lower back. Things did not go as planned. Hospital staff
Read More »Activists talk plans to protect hospitals
Your Nabe Jackson Heights Community leaders and concerned citizens met in Jackson Heights Saturday to discuss the dire state of the borough’s health-care facilities, and each person seemed to have a different solution. The activists gathered at
Read More »Education advocates funded by NYSUT plans protest in New City
Politics on the Hudson New York City Two state-wide advocacy groups are calling on Rockland County residents to protest the potential loss of millions of dollars in local education spending called for in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's
Read More »Public Advocate Bill de Blasio Launches Web Campaign to Push For Rapid Passage of State Senator Daniel Squadron and Assemblyman Rory Lancman’s “Corporate Political Accountability to Shareholders” Act
NYC Public Advocate NYC, NY Today, on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D-Queens), State Senator Daniel Squadron (D-Brooklyn/Manhattan) and New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio launched
Read More »Billionaire NYU Trustee Has Deep And Unsettling Ties To The Republican Party
NYULocal New York City Meet one of NYU’s most powerful trustees: Kenneth Langone. Both the NYU Langone Medical Center and Stern’s Langone Part-Time MBA carry his name; the multibillionaire gave the medical school a whopping $200
Read More »Bill de Blasio: Citizens United Avenger
Mother Jones New York City Can New York City's public advocate hold back a flood of corporate campaign spending? The Supreme Court may have opened the floodgates for corporate campaign spending, but Bill de Blasio, New York
Read More »Sep. 1 Election Watch
Manhattan Times New York Last week Assembly Member Adriano Espaillat picked up two more endorsements in his campaign to succeed state Senator Eric Schneiderman. On Aug. 23 the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), an education union
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