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Possibilities for the third term encore appear on the horizon
By David Freedlander
Dan Doctoroff spoke to students in a concrete bunker of a lecture hall at Columbia University earlier this month about how hard it is to get anything done in government, and to relay lessons he learned along the way. He took them through the battles of trying to get new newspaper kiosks in city streets, of the sticky wicket that is Ground Zero rebuilding. He took them through a PowerPoint presentation of the failed plan to build a football ...
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City Politicians See a Friend in President Obama
White House Office on Urban Policy and revised funding formulas will be crucial
By Dan Rivoli
Barack Obama is unlike many presidents that have come before him. He has more liberal stances on many issues than most who have won the White House, he will be one of the youngest commanders-in-chief ever and he is, of course, an African-American.He is also the first president in modern American history—aside from Richard Nixon, who briefly lived in New York before winning the presidency—to make his home in a major metropolis. Though ...
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