By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper
Brooklyn: So much for that Rudy Giuliani photo op!
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By Thomas Tracy
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: There’s a problem when you run someone out on a rail -- everyone gets splinters.
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By Thomas Tracy
Courier-Life
Council District 39: It’s political payback on a down and dirty old school level.
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By Stephen Witt
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: Pressure is mounting on city lawmakers to give back stipends for chairing City Council committees.
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By Helen Klein
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: The city’s summer jobs program is under the budget axe, again.
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By Gary Buiso
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: Preservationists are hopeful their pictures tell the city a thousand reasons to extend the Carroll Gardens Historic District. The photographs, which catalogue the entirety of the neighborhood, are part of what the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission will use to determine whether to expand the district, an initiative that continues to generate controversy.
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By Gary Buiso
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: Lydia Jimenez doesn’t have to go far to get her daily sodium requirement — the Baltic Street resident simply steps outside her home, and sticks out her tongue.
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By Helen Klein
for Courier-Life
Public Advocate: New York’s new public advocate is already building bridges to community boards, in anticipation of joint efforts on issues of local importance as well as on the broad question of how any revision of the City Charter might impact both his and their role in city government.
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By Thomas Tracy
for Courier-Life
Brooklyn: The State Senate voted to expel embattled Queens Senator Hiram Monserrate last week, but they did it without help of a good chunk of the Brooklyn delegation.
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By Joe Maniscalco
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: State Senator Daniel Squadron delivered the “unfiltered” skinny on the state of the New York State Senate - and folks, it is not good.
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Courier Life
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: With everyone gossiping about Harold Ford, people tend to forget that he isn’t Brooklyn’s U.S. Senator yet. Local political leaders know this and invited their friend Kirsten Gillibrand to Boerum Hill for a special meet and greet. In other news, freshman Councilmembers Jumaane Williams and Steve Levin show some uncommon empathy. Read on for more!
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