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Guv rejects LI pols' complaints on job-cash spread
Spin CycleGov. David A. Paterson took a swipe last week at Long Islanders who blasted his recommendation that the first stimulus cash go to transportation projects upstate. Last month, he forwarded about a dozen projects to Washington for $41 million......Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland), Long Island
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Unions gather as Guv frets and jobs vanish
Spin CycleJust as thousands of union activists gathered in lower Manhattan to demonstrate against slashing public jobs and services, Gov. David A. Paterson issued a statement on the meaning of the latest scary-bleak unemployment figures. ???These numbers clearly...Tags: Corporate Crime, General Motors Corp., New York, Economy, Business and Finance, Manhattan (New York City)
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Speaker Shelly survivor: Others licked, he still ticks
Spin CycleJust call him Assembly Speaker Sheldon Survivor. He could turn out to be the last pol standing in all New York State. As governor, Eliot Spitzer tried to threaten him but, of course, Spitzer is now gone. As Senate......Tags: Republican Party, Lower East Side, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Justice System, New York
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MTA crisis: The Empire State governor strikes back
Spin CycleWith Majority Leader Malcolm Smith's state Senate refusing to take up the MTA-financing program, it offered what it presented as an alternative -- but Gov. David A. Paterson, transit brass and their allies don't see it that way. They......Tags: Republican Party, New York, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, State Budgets, Executive Branch
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Defunct finance titan helped set MTA on crash course
Spin CycleNine years ago, in collaboration with state officials, the mighty investment company Bear Stearns played a special role in shaping the course on which the region???s transit system now finds itself. Not only did this financial titan advise the......Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Upper House, Parliament, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Naked Ambition
Spin CycleWhich was the most fevered lunge for self-promotion by a power player? 1. State Senate Finance Committee Chairman Carl Kruger (D-Brooklyn) proposing a widely panned $1 billion one-shot borrowing plan for MTA financing as an alternative to East River...Tags: William J. Cunningham, John McCain, Meghan McCain, Carl Kruger, Ann Coulter
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Tale of the tolls: The issue rises again!
Spin CycleCertain portions of the business class and Manhattan-based car-haters won't give up in the view of citizen activist Henry Stern, former city parks commissioner and councilman, who says of the prospect of tolls at the East River and Harlem......Tags: Republican Party, Big 3 Auto Bailout (2008), National Government, Budgets and Budgeting, Democratic Party
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Suozzi: Interested in governor -- IF Dave leaves
Spin CycleNassau Executive Thomas ???Got-to-be-in-it-to-win-it??? Suozzi has signalled behind closed doors that if Gov. David A. Paterson did not pursue a second term he???d be interested in running ??? but wouldn???t challenge him in a primary. Lieutenant governor...Tags: Executive Branch, Regional Authority, Politics, Government
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Senate 2010, in a strange and volatile moment
Spin CycleEarly scrambling in the 2010 race for the junior U.S. Senate seat - now occupied by Kirsten Gillibrand - offers the best glimpse of the clashing ambitions at work in the state Democratic Party's nervous ruling circles. For her......Tags: Republican Party, Primaries, New York, Social Issues, Bronx (New York City)
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Comptroller DiNapoli first in releasing tax returns
Spin CycleState Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is fond of saying he???s just a ???middle-class guy??? and that???s borne out in his income tax returns. DiNapoli, a former assemblyman from Great Neck, earned $152,613 last year, according to his returns made public........Tags: State Budgets, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Wages and Pensions, Thomas P. DiNapoli, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Lobbyist predicts to clients Gov. will step aside
Spin CycleA major Democratic lobbyist predicts in a confidential memo that Gov. David A. Paterson ??? barring a miraculous popularity surge ??? will step aside and yield to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo the top spot on next year???s ticket. ???It......Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Executive Branch, Regional Authority, Lobbying
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Paterson's confused LI geography
Spin CycleGov. David A. Paterson, who rarely misses an opportunity to tout his Long Island roots -- grade school in Hempstead, law school at Hofstra -- didn't seem to remember where Route 112 is during his press conference Monday in Melville.......Tags: Executive Branch, Long Island Expressway, Regional Authority, NPR, Long Island
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