All Entries Tagged With: "NYC"
New law protecting credit card users goes into effect
New York Daily News
New York, NY
http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2010/02/23/2010-02-23_new_law_protecting_credit_card_users_goes_into_effect.html
BY LORE CROGHAN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Banks can no longer jack up interest rates on most customers’ credit card balances, as a federal law protecting millions of consumers took effect Monday.
“Today is a great day for anyone who has a credit card in their wallet,” Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan), an author [...]
Latest potential domino: Cuomo, Schneiderman, Espaillat
Capitol Confidential, Times Union
Albany, NY
http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/22794/latest-potential-domino-cuomo-scheiderman-espaillat/
By Rick Karlin
Maybe dominoes isn’t the best metaphor, it’s more like churn, or the ongoing movement of ambitious politicians seeking ever-higher office which in turn creates openings for others along the political food chain.
With Andrew Cuomo expected to run for governor, there’s a growing list of those who would in turn run [...]
Training Tuesday with #org20: Getting Through the Bureaucracy
Sum of Change Blog
New York, NY
http://sumofchange.blogspot.com/2009/12/training-tuesday-with-org20-getting.html
This week, we have something new for our Training Tuesday series. We still have plenty of videos left to come from Democracy for America’s Campaign Academy, but a couple weekends back, we attended the Organizing 2.0 conference in New York. This conference was a unique opportunity for activists to learn [...]
Join or Die
The New York Observer
New York, NY
http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/join-die
When it comes to outspokeness, can anybody compete with health care advocates?
Here are two signs that caught my attention during their rally on the steps of City Hall this afternoon, which invoked “death panels” and September 11th.
Pressuring McMahon (Updated)
The Daily Politics
New York, NY
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2009/11/pressuring-mcmahon.html
A coalition of labor leaders and Democratic activists gathered on the steps of City Hall today to thank members of the city’s congressional delegation who voted “yes” on health care reform and pressure the lone “no” voter, Rep. Mike McMahon, to change his mind when the final version comes to the House [...]
Health Care Advocate Warns McMahon of Trouble With the Base
The New York Observer
New York, NY
http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/health-care-advocate-warns-mcmahon-trouble-base
At a press conference at City Hall, supporters of the federal health care legislation that narrowly passed the House this weekend singled out Rep. Mike McMahon for opposing the bill, and said he may have “political problems with his base” if he keeps opposing it.
McMahon, a freshman, is the first [...]
Engel Goes After McMahon on Healthcare
The New York Observer
New York, NY
http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/engel-goes-after-mcmahon-health-care
Mike McMahon is the only member of Congress from New York City who opposedthe healthcare bill narrowly passed by the House earlier this week.
Now the Staten Island Democrat is the target of a protest from healthcare advocates, who will be joined by one of McMahon’s colleagues, Eliot Engel of the Bronx and Westchester.
Engel [...]
Health Care reform hits home
Columbia Spectator
New York, NY
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/11/05/health-care-reform-hits-home
The low- to middle-income communities in West Harlem and Morningside Heights have a particular stake in the health care reform plans pending in Congress.
The five congressional committees that oversee health care issues have each proposed a distinct bill, which leaders must merge into a single, cohesive piece of legislation that can be [...]
Big-insurance ills laid bare at health care protest
Chelsea Now/Gay City/The Villager/Downtown Express
New York, NY
http://chelseanow.com/articles/2009/12/06/news/new_york/doc4abba42316847125613569.txt
By Jefferson Siegel
The health insurance debate landed full-throttle in Chelsea on Tues., Sept. 22, as several hundred people protested outside the offices of one of the nation’s largest health insurers.
A vociferous crowd gathered across Seventh Ave. from the Penn Plaza offices of United Healthcare on 32nd St., holding signs [...]
The Three Candidates, All Democrats, Vying for the Seat
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/nyregion/14dachart.html?_r=1
Cyrus R. Vance Jr.
AGE 55
QUICK HITS Worked as a Manhattan prosecutor from 1982 through 1988. He specialized in white-collar criminal defense for private firms in Seattle and New York. His father was secretary of state under President Jimmy Carter.
ENDORSEMENTS Robert M. Morgenthau, Gloria Steinem, David Dinkins, United Federation of Teachers.
MONEY RAISED $2.4 million
LEFT [...]
