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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: Homophobia, Hate Crimes, Minority Groups, Raymond W. Kelly, Gay Rights
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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: Politics, Values, Religion and Belief, Justice System, Andrew Cuomo
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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: Politics, Wisconsin State Legislature, Employees, Career and Workplace, Michael Bloomberg
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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: Economy, Business and Finance, Punishment, Barack Obama, Finance, Bronx (New York City)
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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: Philip Morris USA, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Health, Lung Cancer, Advertising
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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: Politics, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Scott Walker, Republican Party, Career and Workplace
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Unemployed complain they need a job to find a job
NEW YORK (AP) — Help wanted. Qualifications: Must already have a job. It's a frustrating catch for those out of work in an era of high unemployment: looking for a job, only to find that some employers don't want anyone who doesn't already have...
Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, National Government, Laws, Trials
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Governor's brother disagrees on some election issues
Gov. Martin O'Malley's brother has apparently split with the governor on two election issues, backing a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate and signing a petition to put the state's same-sex marriage law on the November ballot. Patrick O'Malley...Tags: Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Religion and Belief, Martin O'Malley
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Slashing At McDonald's May Be Hate Crime
pix11.com | @jaydownyc | @pix11marioThis man is not just another man waiting on line for his food at McDonalds. Police say he’s a homophobic criminal, who’s accused of getting into an argument with a gay couple while standing on line at the chain’s Greenwich Village...Tags: Hate Crimes, Criminals, New York City Police Department, Anthony Rodriguez, McDonald's
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel opposes eminent domain mortgage concept
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday that he does not support using eminent domain to seize underwater homes to refinance those mortgages at more affordable terms. He made the statement as Chicago aldermen attended a committee hearing to learn about the...
Tags: John Cusack, Real Estate, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Chicago Mayor
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New Jersey Muslims file federal lawsuit to stop spying by New York City Police Department
WASHINGTON (AP)— Eight Muslims filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday in New Jersey to force the New York Police Department to end its surveillance and other intelligence-gathering practices targeting Muslims in the years after the 2001 terrorist...
Tags: Civil Rights, Politics, Rutgers University, Students, Laws
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Silent March To Protest NYPD's 'Stop-And-Frisk' Policy
ReutersSeveral thousand New Yorkers marched silently down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue from lower Harlem to the mayor's Upper East Side townhouse on Sunday to protest the New York Police Department's contentious stop-and-frisk policy. Civil rights leaders the...Tags: Civil Rights, Politics, Justice and Rights, New York City Police Department, Robert J. Lopez
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