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On Sunday, Rudy Giuliani will be where he was exactly 10 years ago -- at the site of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center towers.
The scene in downtown Manhattan will be less chaotic than it was in 2001, but Giuliani said Thursday he doesn't want the terrorist attacks to fade with time.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered a keynote speech yesterday at the New York State Bar Association, calling for legal reform including the creation of special health courts. Philip K. Howard, Chair of Common Good, the nonpartisan legal reform coalition that has developed and championed the concept of special health courts, today issued the following statement:
Mayor Bloomberg asked a crucial question for New York and the nation: How can we use our legal system to promote a culture of innovation rather than a culture of fear? He went on to demonstrate that the current culture of legal fear is undermining the health care on which Americans depend, and he proposed, as part of the solution, the creation of health courts. Mayo...
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David Sapir Lesser (Andrew D. Kaizer, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, of counsel; Douglas H. Lasdon, Urban Justice Center, New York, NY, of...
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Bloomberg to Receive Honorary Degree of Doctor of Public Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Michael R. Bloomberg, mayor of the City of New York, will address graduates of the George Washington University at its Commencement on the National Mall Sunday, May 15, 2011. Mayor Bloomberg will speak to an estimated 25,000 graduates and guests and receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Public Service.
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A former New York City mayor peppered his speech to roughly 850 attorneys in Kansas City on Friday with his thoughts on war, his experiences in politics and an F-bomb.
Ed Koch, a prior congressman, radio commentator, book author and past judge on "The People's Court," served as the keynote speaker for the 125th annual meeting of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association.
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It's 11 a.m. on a warm day in April and Rudy Giuliani is running late. Long after trading in his Gracie Mansion address, the meticulous, Brooklyn-born...
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[Michael R. Bloomberg, Ferrer] has been the city's mayor since 2002, serving out one full term. While in office he abolished the Board of Education, renaming it the New York City Department of Education, and re-centered its bureaucracy out of the mayor's offices. He eliminated social promotion in the city's schools and created a citywide curriculum. Like his opponents, Bloomberg supports charter schools and uniform standards throughout the city's districts. The teachers' union has repeatedly called for a new contract and higher wages; Bloomberg's offer has been considerably lower than the teachers' proposal. The mayor differs from each of his Democratic opponents in that he opposes the hiring of new police officers - in fact there are nearly 4,000 less policemen and women now then there...
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NEW YORK - A city panel on Tuesday cleared the way for the construction near ground zero of a mosque that has caused a political uproar over religious freedom even as opponents vowed to press their case in court.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to deny landmark status to a building two blocks from the World Trade Center site that developers want to tear down and convert into a $100 million Islamic community center and mosque. The panel said the 152- year-old lower Manhattan building isn't distinctive enough to be considered a landmark.
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On the surface, Robert Gioia is a study in contradictions.
In his smartly appointed corner office on the 36th floor of One HSBC Center, the president of the Oishei Foundation keeps a copy of "Leadership," a book by conservative former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani right next to a the late liberal U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's "Came the Revolution.