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Police commissioner calls fatal shooting in NYC's Greenwich Village an anti-gay hate crime
Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York's police commissioner called an "anti-gay" hate crime. Before...Tags: Minority Groups, Murder, Raymond W. Kelly, Crime, Law and Justice, Greenwich Village
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Newsday Dan Janison column
NewsdayFor the moment, the only sensible question is whether you wish to call Albany's ethical sewer pipe half empty or half full. Are the new revolting details about a state lawmaker's behavior just that -- or do they mark a step on some hard-to-detect path...Tags: Values, Politics, Andrew Cuomo, Government, Religion and Belief
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NYC Council speaker, mayoral candidate Christine Quinn reveals struggles with bulimia, alcohol
Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers might have felt they knew about the personal life of Christine Quinn, the veteran politician seeking to become the city's first gay and first female mayor. But on Tuesday, Quinn disclosed a difficult piece of her past...Tags: Eating Disorders, Politics, Local Elections, Alcohol Addiction, Long Island
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Paid sick days plan passes NYC Council; seen as major step in push for the benefit around US
Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — In a significant victory amid a push for paid sick time laws around the country, city lawmakers voted Wednesday to make businesses provide the benefit to an estimated 1 million workers who don't have it now. Saying they hoped that...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Politics, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Elections
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NYC's attempt to stop cigarette tax evasion hampered by low fines, enforcement gaps
Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — High taxes have emerged as the No. 1 weapon in the war on smoking. The more cigarettes cost, research has shown, the fewer people buy them. That is one of the reasons six states are considering proposals to hike tobacco taxes. But...Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Barack Obama, Economy, Business and Finance, Organized Crime, Tobacco Products
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Smoking and the right to dumb choices
As thoroughly awful as everyone knows cigarettes to be — still the No. 1 cause of premature death in this country — public officials walk a blurry line when they try to reduce smoking's terrible toll. As long as they lack the will to ban...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Marketing, Advertising, Tobacco Products, OxyContin (drug)
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NYC tobacco policy would most curb youngest teens: researcher
New York City officials, with the blessing of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, announced Monday that they will seek to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products in the city’s five boroughs from 18 to 21 years of age. Although the proposed rule...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, University of California, Irvine, Health and Safety at School, Health
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NY proposal would make 21 minimum age for tobacco
No one under 21 would be able to buy cigarettes in New York City, under a new proposal announced Monday that marks the latest in a decade of moves to crack down on smoking in the nation's largest city. New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Food and Drug Administration, Advertising, Lung Cancer
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EMILY's List creates independent group to boost Greuel candidacy
EMILY’s List, a political organization dedicated to electing pro-choice Democratic women, has created an independent expenditure committee and seeded it with $400,000 to buoy Wendy Greuel’s bid for Los Angeles mayor, according to documents...
Tags: Politics, Local Elections, Government, Annise Parker, Wendy Greuel
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Bills spark debate over paid sick time in Michigan
Bills spark debate over paid sick time in Michigan ALANNA DURKIN,Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Some Michigan Republicans are pushing to ban local governments from requiring employers to provide paid sick leave as cities in other...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Politics, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Republican Party
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6 New York officials charged in political corruption scandal
A lawmaker was so eager to be New York City’s next mayor that he tried to buy his way into the election, prosecutors alleged on Tuesday, as they announced charges of bribery, extortion and fraud against the legislator as well as a New York City...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Real Estate Sellers, Politics, Blackmail and Extortion, Crime, Law and Justice
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L.A. mayoral hopeful Wendy Greuel wins backing of Emily's List
L.A. NOWLos Angeles mayoral hopeful Wendy Greuel announced the backing of Emily's List....
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