Month: August 2009
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City Hall Broke Rules Funneling Money to Groups
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/nyregion/04funds.html?em
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Old Feuds Resurface in a Brooklyn Rezoning Fight
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/nyregion/05broadway.html
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Short Take on OSA
Clearly I’m catching up with what happened while I was away. Luckily, Aaron Short is catching up after his 10th reunion, so I’m just going to keep linking to him. This time on OSA – Aaron authored a three part series on OSA in the Courier, which ended up finding a lot of smoke but…
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NAG Candidates Forum Recap
Aaron Short has an insightful post recapping last week’s candidate forum for the 33rd Council District (and handicapping the state of the race today). Aaron also helpfully links to all the other press coverage on the debate. I wasn’t there, but reading those press accounts (including Aaron’s in the Courier), one would think that Doug…
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Broadway Triangle Community Coalition Plan
The Broadway Triangle Community Coalition has taken the PowerPoint for its Pratt plan (which I linked to before) and set it to music. I still think the plan itself (and the one or two plans BTCC had before that) suffers from a fatal flaw – its just too damn big. I know in the end…
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Mary, RIP
I came back from a week’s vacation to learn that Mary, who has kept the corner of Bedford and Grand clean for as long as I can remember, died on July 24. She was a beloved fixture on the block, and as the photo to the left shows, will be missed. A collection is being…