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With Tougher Standardized Tests, a Reminder to Breathe

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By KYLE SPENCER - Apr. 14 (Comment) - At Public School 10 on the edge of Park Slope, Brooklyn, parents begged the principal to postpone the lower school science fair, insisting it was going to add too much pressure while they were preparing their children for the coming state tests. On State

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Girls Outnumbered in New York’s Elite Public Schools

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By AL BAKER - Mar. 23 (News Analysis) - Students at Brooklyn Technical High School on Friday; it is one of the eight specialized schools where girls are in the minority. In the United States, girls have outshined boys in high school for years, amassing m

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Judge Blocks New York City's Limits on Big Sugary Drinks

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael M. Grynbaum - Mar. 12 (News Report) - A State Supreme Court judge invalidated new restrictions on sweetened beverages a day before they were set to take effect, saying the rules were “arbitrary and capricious.”

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Northeast Buried; City Spared the Worst

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Katharine Q. Seelye - Feb. 09 (News Report) - After a day of pelting wet snow, five states had called states of emergency, and Massachusetts had banned cars from every road in the state. Half a million power failures had been reported by early Saturday.

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New York City to Restrict Powerful Prescription Drugs in Public Hospitals’ Emergency Rooms

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS - Jan. 11 (News Report) - Some of the most common and most powerful prescription painkillers on the market will be restricted sharply in the emergency rooms at New York City’s 11 public hospitals, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Thursday in an effort to crack down on what he call

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414 Homicides in '12 Is a Record Low for New York City

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Wendy Ruderman - Dec. 29 (News Report) - Overall crimes increased slightly, officials said, because of a rise in thefts — a phenomenon based solely on robberies of iPhones and other Apple devices.

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Opinion: A Health Insurance Detective Story

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:50:00 -0800

New York Times - By By FRANK LALLI - Dec. 01 (Opinion) - I’VE had a long career as a business journalist, beginning at Forbes and including eight years as the editor of Money, a personal finance magazine. But I’ve never faced a more confounding reporting challenge than the one I’m engaged in now: What will I p

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Schools Add In-House Farms as Teaching Tools in New York City

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Lisa W. Foderaro - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Teachers at schools with their own gardens are bringing their classrooms to nature, encouraging students to plant, harvest and experiment with solar and wind energy.

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For Some, Occupy Movement is a Test of Faith

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

City Limits - Apr. 30 (News) - Financial District — Thirty-two days after they had been evicted from their Zuccotti Park encampment in Lower Manhattan, approximately 1,000 Occupy Wall Street activists rallied together to take over another public space for their movement. They hoped to

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Occupy Sunset Park: Seeking Change in Many Languages | Brooklyn Bureau | News & Journalism, Citizen Commentary & Multimedia

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

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Years of Warnings, Then a Boy’s Death

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

City Limits - Mar. 13 (News) - Norwood — This is the second chapter in a five-chapter story. Click here to see the rest of the series. But the fire that took 8-year-old Jashawn Parker in the late evening of Aug. 6, 2002, on a typically dense northwest-Bronx block somehow never got muc

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As NYCHA Seeks Flexibility, Tenant Advocates ConcernedCityLimits.org

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

City Limits - Mar. 13 (News) - The city's public housing agency wants rules relaxed to allow creative budgeting. But advocates for residents want stronger assurances that financial flexibility won't come at the cost of tenant rights.

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Where Schools Fall Short

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:26:17 -0800

New York Times - Dec. 05 (Opinion) - Millions of students attend abysmally weak school systems that leave them unprepared for college. The states have an obligation to help these students retool.

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Better Late Than Never

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By James Taranto - Nov. 16 (Opinion) - After loitering for nearly two months, New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg finally took action overnight, clearing out so-called protesters who had turned Zuccotti Park, a privately owned, publicly accessible plaza in a residential neighborhood of downtown Manhattan, into a squalid Obamaville. "Health and safety conditions became intolerable," the New York Times quotes the mayor as saying--though why it took him two months to figure that out is left unexplained.

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Occupy Times Square: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Swarm Midtown

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Whitney Snyder - Oct. 16 (News Report) - Thousands of anti-Wall Street protesters rallied in New York City's Times Square Saturday, buoyed by a global day of demonstrations in support of their monthlong campaign against corporate greed.

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Reuters Draws Fire For Occupy Wall Street Story

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jack Mirkinson - Oct. 14 (News Analysis) - Reuters is drawing heavy criticism -- including from some of its own journalists -- for an article which attempts to connect the Occupy Wall Street...

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Panic of the Plutocrats

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:35:46 -0700

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Occupy Wall Street Protest Escalates On Eighth Day (VIDEO)

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jonah Green - Sep. 25 (News Report) - Tensions are rising at the Occupy Wall Street protest, currently in its eighth day, as organizers for the protest claim that 80 have been arrested.. Eyewitness accounts report that "dozens" have been arrested. Police would not confirm the exact number. Videos and eyewitness accounts show violent clashing between protesters and the police.

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A decade later, returning to the scene of something unfathomable - latimes.com

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Steve Lopez - Sep. 11 (Special Report) - A columnist goes back to Lower Manhattan, where in 2001 he got a close-up look at the destruction of 9/11. He's reminded anew that we all have a stake in what happened that day and in the days that followed.

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Under Bloomberg, a Sharp Rise in Accusations of Cheating by Educators

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Sharon Otterman - Aug. 23 (News Report) - Annual allegations of test-tampering and grade-changing by educators have more than tripled since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took control of New York City’s school system, outpacing a broader increase in complaints of adult misconduct in schools during the same period, according to the special commissioner of investigation.

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Can George Soros, Michael Bloomberg save New York's troubled young men?

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Ron Scherer - Aug. 05 (News Report) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a $127.5 million plan Thursday to help young black and Hispanic men. The effort includes money from financier George Soros and his philanthropy.

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2 Dads, 2 Daughters, 1 Big Day

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Frank Bruni - Jul. 21 (Opinion) - Even in a city as diverse as New York and a neighborhood as progressive as the West Village, a little kid knows that having two dads is different. Eight-year-old Maeve certainly did.

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Strauss-Kahn Case Faces Test in Hearing

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jim Dwyer, William K. Rashbaum, John Eligon - Jun. 30 (News Report) - The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse as investigators have uncovered major holes in the credibility of the housekeeper who charged that he attacked her in his Manhattan hotel suite in May, according to two well-placed law enforcement officials.

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New York Allows Same-Sex Marriage, Becoming Largest State to Pass Law

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas Confessore, Michael Barbaro - Jun. 25 (News Report) - Lawmakers voted late Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed and giving the national gay-rights movement new momentum from the state where it was born.

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New York gay marriage bill passes

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jun. 25 (News Analysis) - Same-sex marriage is now legal in New York after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that was narrowly passed by state lawmakers Friday, handing activists a breakthrough victory in the state where the American gay rights movement was born.

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