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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:54:06 EST</pubDate>
<title>QUEENS: Appeals court upholds Senate vote to expel Monserrate</title>
<author>By Anna Gustafson</author>
<description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court on Friday denied former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate&#8217;s request to restore his position in the state Legislature and cancel the upcoming election for the 13th Senate District.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:38:11 EST</pubDate>
<title>ATLANTIC YARDS: Ratner breaks ground! Jay-Z celebrates! Others protest!</title>
<author>By Stephen Brown</author>
<description><![CDATA[A whirlwind and symbolic day in the Atlantic Yards footprint.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:26:39 EST</pubDate>
<title>QUEENS: Monserrate seat race nears  </title>
<author>By Jeremy Walsh </author>
<description><![CDATA[Voters in Corona, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst and Jackson Heights are awash in mailers this week as former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate battles state Assemblyman Jose Peralta (D-Jackson Heights) in a special election set for Tuesday.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<title>COUNCIL DISTRICT 35: It&#8217;s a Tish-grace! Councilwoman James sues over scratch</title>
<author>By Stephen Witt</author>
<description><![CDATA[Councilwoman Letitia James has filed a personal injury suit against an itinerant laborer after she allegedly injured herself walking into his legally parked truck.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<title>COUNCIL DISTRICT 35: More Tish-grace! Councilwoman hires big-time personal injury lawyer in bump-and-scratch</title>
<author>By Stephen Witt</author>
<description><![CDATA[Councilwoman Letitia James is ramping the legal pressure up in her personal injury lawsuit against an itinerant laborer after she allegedly injured herself walking into his legally parked truck.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:26:39 EST</pubDate>
<title>QUEENS: Queens GOP heavies battle over leadership  </title>
<author>By Howard Koplowitz </author>
<description><![CDATA[The rift between two warring factions of the Queens Republican Party just got deeper.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:42:13 EDT</pubDate>
<title>QUEENS: Queens pols high-five Ravitch&#8217;s budget</title>
<author>By Jeremy Walsh </author>
<description><![CDATA[Queens legislators said they were impressed by Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch&#8217;s proposal to reform the state&#8217;s budget process, although they had their doubts about how many of his recommendations would see the light of day.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:13:01 EDT</pubDate>
<title>COUNCIL DISTRICT 33: Levin issues a big Domi-NO</title>
<author>By Aaron Short</author>
<description><![CDATA[Freshman Councilman Steve Levin has come out against the $1.2-billion redevelopment of the old Domino Sugar refinery on the Williamsburg waterfront, calling its 2,200 units too big for a neighborhood that has seen massive growth since a 2005 rezoning that encouraged just such development.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:23:10 EDT</pubDate>
<title>BROOKLYN: IND welcomes Attorney General candidates</title>
<author>Courier Life staffers</author>
<description><![CDATA[The Independent Neighborhood Democrats club is hosting a forum for attorney general candidates tonight, so we took the chance to examine who the borough might fancy.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:26:39 EST</pubDate>
<title>COUNCIL DISTRICT 27: SE Queens should back guv: Pols  </title>
<author>By Howard Koplowitz </author>
<description><![CDATA[As embattled Gov. David Paterson faced new allegations of impropriety this week, two southeast Queens elected officials said the black community should stand by Paterson.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:42:11 EDT</pubDate>
<title>QUEENS: Tea Party protests Ackerman  </title>
<author>By Nathan Duke </author>
<description><![CDATA[A group of Queens and Long Island residents associated with the national Tea Party movement protested outside U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman&#8217;s (D-Bayside) Northern Boulevard-based office last week, blasting his stance on health care.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:46:23 EDT</pubDate>
<title>COUNCIL DISTRICT 39: Senesh plan off: School will not build on Carrol Gardens courtyard</title>
<author>By Gary Buiso</author>
<description><![CDATA[A Carroll Gardens private school announced late on Friday that it had abandoned its controversial plan to build an annex on its courtyard &#8212; ending a bitter debate over whether building on such yards would destroy the very character of the neighborhood.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:45:18 EDT</pubDate>
<title>COUNCIL DISTRICT 33: Yassky gets TLC from Mayor</title>
<author>By Aaron Short</author>
<description><![CDATA[He may have lost his bid for City Comptroller last fall, but former City Councilman David Yassky has a shiny yellow and black consolation prize: a Commissioner&#8217;s post with the Taxi Limousine Commission.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:26:39 EST</pubDate>
<title>QUEENS: Fund-raising begins for Hevesi, Zulunova</title>
<author>By Anna Gustafson </author>
<description><![CDATA[State Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) and the Democrat running against him in the primary, Lilianna Zulunova, have thrown themselves head first into their campaigns, with each holding fund-raisers last week and pounding the pavement to win support from district residents.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:26:38 EST</pubDate>
<title>COUNCIL DISTRICT 27: Comrie assures residents coyote sightings not a cause for concern</title>
<author>By Ivan Pereira </author>
<description><![CDATA[After months of searching and attempts to catch at least two elusive coyotes reportedly roaming around Rochdale Village, animal experts and City Councilman Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) are warning residents not to worry about the wily predators.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:26:39 EST</pubDate>
<title>QUEENS: Jobs bill could boost boro economy: Maloney</title>
<author>By Howard Koplowitz </author>
<description><![CDATA[The economy may be weak, but there are still employment and business opportunities, according to a town hall forum on jobs and the economy hosted Saturday by U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Astoria).]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:15:38 EDT</pubDate>
<title>QUEENS: Sex harassment suit over CB 1  manager settled</title>
<author>By Nathan Duke </author>
<description><![CDATA[The city has paid a $98,000 settlement to a former staff member at Astoria&#8217;s Community Board 1 who had filed a lawsuit that accused former district manager George Delis of sexually harassing her during her three-year stint at the board&#8217;s office, a spokeswoman for the city Law Department said.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:15:38 EDT</pubDate>
<title>QUEENS: Lancman slams health cuts  </title>
<author>By Connor Adams Sheets </author>
<description><![CDATA[The Kissena Park Civic Association hosted a community forum last Thursday evening on the negative effects Gov. David Paterson&#8217;s proposed budget would have on the eroding Queens health care system.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:15:38 EDT</pubDate>
<title>QUEENS: Weiner touts jobs bill on Austin Street</title>
<author>By Anna Gustafson </author>
<description><![CDATA[For Michael Jaye, a manager at Forest Hills&#8217; New York Diamond Boutique, a $15 billion jobs bill passed by Congress has prompted him to hire two new people for his shop on Austin Street &#8212; a feat in an economy that has struck some locally owned Queens shops hard.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:51:40 EDT</pubDate>
<title>COUNCIL DISTRICT 39: Carroll Gardens ground zero in anti-landmarking push</title>
<author>By Gary Buiso</author>
<description><![CDATA[An effort to preserve the history of Carroll Gardens is being criticized for actually hastening the neighborhood&#8217;s gentrification, said opponents of a controversial city initiative to widen the area&#8217;s historic district.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:42:13 EDT</pubDate>
<title>COUNCIL DISTRICT 20: Flushing electeds slam MTA over plan to cancel X51 bus</title>
<author>By Ivan Pereira </author>
<description><![CDATA[The MTA is aiming to take out one of Flushing&#8217;s express buses, but commuters said they are being unfairly targeted.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:42:13 EDT</pubDate>
<title>QUEENS: Peralta defeats Monserrate </title>
<author>By Jeremy Walsh </author>
<description><![CDATA[So long, Hiram.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:28:00 EDT</pubDate>
<title>COUNCIL DISTRICT 39: Hey, was that  John Heyer at the gay-bash vigil?</title>
<author>By Thomas Tracy</author>
<description><![CDATA[The anti-gay-marriage candidate re-emerges at the scene of the assault of a gay man.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:15:38 EDT</pubDate>
<title>COUNCIL DISTRICT 27: Subprime crisis still grips boro, Comrie says</title>
<author>By Anna Gustafson </author>
<description><![CDATA[City Councilman Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) told St. John&#8217;s University students last week that he still is fighting predatory lenders in the wake of a subprime mortgage crisis that has caused thousands of borough residents, especially in southeast Queens, to lose their homes.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:15:38 EDT</pubDate>
<title>QUEENS: Smith presents plan for group to look at jobs</title>
<author>By Ivan Pereira </author>
<description><![CDATA[State Sen. Malcolm Smith (D-St. Albans) conceded the state will take some time to get out of its financial crisis, but he said plans are underway to bring together leaders at other venues to help New York&#8217;s unemployed.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:15:38 EDT</pubDate>
<title>COUNCIL DISTRICT 24: Access to green tech easier with new law: Gennaro</title>
<author>By Anna Gustafson </author>
<description><![CDATA[The City Council last week passed legislation that will allow environmentally conscious city residents to more easily sell and access green technology, the bill&#8217;s sponsor, Councilman James Gennaro (D-Fresh Meadows), said.]]></description>
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