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NYC agrees to pay more than $230,000 after destroying Occupy books
The City of New York has agreed to pay more than $230,000 to settle a lawsuit over destroying thousands of protesters' books after the city's November 2011 raid to break up the Occupy Wall Street encampment. "It was more than just money," Norman Siegel,...
Tags: New York City, Occupy Wall Street, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers
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NRA plans to challenge Maryland gun law
The Baltimore SunNational Rifle Association President David Keene said Tuesday that the organization intends to challenge the constitutionality of Maryland's newly passed gun law, as a conservative group readied plans to try to overturn the law through voter referendum....Tags: New York City, Politics, Washington, DC, Executive Branch, Gun Control
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Bloomberg's soda battle draws parallel to our nation's public health activism
Melissa Healey's article, "NYC's failed cap on sugary drinks prompts soul searching" on April 4 draws an interesting parallel between New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's improbable public health battle against obesity and our nation's long history...Tags: New York City
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UPDATED: Status report on Toomey-Manchin gun talks expected around 5 p.m.
Call Washington BureauUPDATED: Sen. Pat Toomey kept his head down as he quickly walked past a gaggle of reporters. Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who Toomey is working with on a background check compromise, sprinted past several huddled reporters, arms pumping,...Tags: New York City, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Politics, Gun Control
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Will Halvorson have crossover appeal?
Change of SubjectThe promise/threat of party-crossover voting is almost always a phantom. Since Illinois' primary voting system allows voters to choose their party ballot on the day of the election (as opposed to pre-registering party affiliation), it's always possible... -
Why is New York's Bloomberg butting into Chicago politics?
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is butting his way into Chicago politics like some Mayor Buttinski. Bloomberg, the billionaire, news mogul and despiser of large soda drinks, is spending at least $2.1 million here to determine which Democrat in the...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Congress, Gun Control, Richard M. Daley, Anthony Beale
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A thirst-quenching blow for freedom
Perhaps you remember when Dr. Doom conquered the world. Or perhaps you don't. Sadly enough, even in this day and age, not everyone is comic book literate. Suffice it to say, then, that back in the 1980s, Marvel Comics published a graphic novel in...
Tags: New York City, Social Sciences, Obesity, Culture, Crime, Law and Justice
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Bloomberg loses the soda battle, not the war
The beverage industry is claiming victory after a New York City judge on Monday overturned a ban on super-size sodas and sugary drinks Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg had championed as a way to combat obesity among residents. But the battle is hardly over. Mr....Tags: New York City, Weight, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Services and Shopping, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Tyranny of the virtuous
The first law of thermodynamics says that energy can't be created and can't be destroyed — it can only be changed from one form into another. The same holds true for the puritanical impulse. Puritanism in the historical sense is as dead as the...
Tags: HIV, Restaurants, Obesity, Weight, Diseases and Illnesses
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Is Toomey the key to gun legislation?
Call Washington BureauCould Sen. Pat Toomey be the Democrats chance to get gun control legislation passed? Reports circulated Friday afternoon that the Pennsylvania Republican is in talks with West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on a bill to expand background checks on...Tags: New York City, U.S. Senate, POLITICO LLC, Republican Party, Politics
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Letters: All hail the nanny in chief
Re "On the front lines of firearms debate," March 29 The National Rifle Assn. and others on the right may criticize New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as the "nanny in chief," but he is on to something. Look around you: Most people are overweight or...Tags: Weight, Overweight, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health Insurance Cost, Same-Sex Marriage
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McManus: Gun control, DOA
President Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December's schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation's gun laws. "Shame on us if we've forgotten," he said. "Don't get squishy." But four months after the...
Tags: Politics, Gun Control, Harry Reid, Crime, Law and Justice, National Rifle Association of America
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