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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

Sean Collins January 19, 2012 0

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

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Campaign Finance Reform in Albany

Charlie Vella June 20, 2011 0

“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

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City’s hospitals are sickening: study

Bjarni Thoroddsson March 28, 2011 0

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

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Malpractice Cap Emerges as Key Issue in Budget Debate

Bjarni Thoroddsson March 25, 2011 0

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

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Activists talk plans to protect hospitals

Bjarni Thoroddsson March 3, 2011 0

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

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Education advocates funded by NYSUT plans protest in New City

Bjarni Thoroddsson February 24, 2011 0

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

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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

Bjarni Thoroddsson January 21, 2011 0

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

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Billionaire NYU Trustee Has Deep And Unsettling Ties To The Republican Party

Bjarni Thoroddsson October 26, 2010 0

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

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Bill de Blasio: Citizens United Avenger

Bjarni Thoroddsson September 22, 2010 0

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

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Sep. 1 Election Watch

Bjarni Thoroddsson August 30, 2010 0

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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