Category: Linked
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342 Days
Fiscal conservatism: The federal budget deficit is running at a pace that is more than double last year’s imbalance through the first four months of the budget year… The Bush administration sent its final budget request to Congress last week, projecting that the deficit for all of 2008 will total $410 billion, very close to…
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I Guess Its How You Define Contextual
The Oliver (Photo via GL) KSQ Architects’ new design for 360 Smith Street (now called “The Oliver”) is certainly very nice. Unlike the previous architect, the Westchester/Tulsa (Tulsa?!)-based firm uses more traditional materials (though in non-traditional ways – it sounds as though they are talking about terra-cotta rain screens, not brick walls). While the design…
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343 Days
The Army is suppressing an unclassified report critical of the execution of the Iraq war. A review of the lengthy report […] shows that it identified problems with nearly every organization that had a role in planning the war. They could have saved a lot of paper by just printing a list of Bush administration…
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Greenway on Kent Avenue
This sounds like a very good idea – not only would it provide greenways and protected bicycle lanes, it would help slow down traffic on the Kent Avenue freeway. I’m sure the parking freepers will object, but this is something CB1 should support.
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Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
John McCain almost lost three primaries on Saturday. Luckily for him, the Republican brass in Washington state decided that it wasn’t necessary to count all of the votes.
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Finally, A Solution to Overcrowding on the L
Your fare hike at work: A new B2 bus route connecting Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and Long Island City, Queens, to midtown Manhattan.
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475 Kent – People Live(d) There
Nice piece in today’s Times about the working artists at 475 Kent and the community they created.
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The Other Side of Eminent Domain
“Ah, irony,” Scott Bullock, a senior attorney with the group that fought eminent domain in the [Kelo] case. The linked article is a little disingenuous, in that Pfizer was not a party to the Kelo (the Supreme Court case that gave birth to the phrase “Eminent Domain Abuse”). But it was Pfizer’s relocation to New…
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Schaefer Dock Gone
I have heard that the water taxi dock at Shaefer Landing was removed over the weekend. Apparently, a new and smaller permanent dock will be installed in “a couple of months”. I suppose that quashes any hope of taxi service resuming any sooner than “a couple of months” from now.