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    <title><![CDATA[Elections Pick]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Back and Forth: George Gonzalez After six months of deadlock following the resignation of Marcus Cederqvist, the surprise candidacy of former State Sen. Serf Maltese quickly crystallized the selection process of George Gonzalez as the new executive director of the City Board of Elections. Though new in the top job, Gonzalez has been with the agency since the early 1980s, and says he has become very familiar with its ins and outs, as well as the criticisms that are often leveled at its operations.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flush With Charter Cash, Pollard Aims To Give Montgomery Run For Her Money]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Montgomery is unfazed by challenger, anti-incumbent mood in race for 14th term The first week in August, at Old-Timers Day in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Sen. Velmanette Montgomery and her challenger, Mark Pollard, nearly collided rounding opposite sides of the same tree.

Montgomery and Pollard, an attorney and law professor, stood face-to-face for the first time in their campaign against each other.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Taking (Campaign) Heads]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ With the election entering its final stretch, City Hall sat down with the two men running the two big mayoral campaigns. They agreed on their plans for the day after Election Day, but other than that painted starkly different versions of the stakes of this race, their own internal operations and their view of each other from afar.                ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Candidate&rsquo;s Brief Tenure As School Board President Marred By Corruption]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.cityhallnews.com/newyork/article-975-candidaterss-brief-tenure-as-school-board-president-marred-by-corruption.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Frank Gulluscio was dismissed with rest of local board after sweeping probe One job conspicuously left off Gulluscio&rsquo;s r%uFFFDsum%uFFFD: A brief stint as president of his local school board in 1989 which ended in his dismissal by the chancellor after an investigation revealed that Gulluscio had earned his appointment as president in exchange for votes on other matters, including the installation of his campaign manager as an elementary school principal.                                                 ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Locked Out Of Debates, 26-Year Old Socialist Candidate Hits Bloomberg And Thompson]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.cityhallnews.com/newyork/article-974-locked-out-of-debates-26-year-old-socialist-candidate-hits-bloomberg-and-thompson.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[ Frances Villar, the mayoral candidate running on the Socialism and Liberation party line, says she is one of the many New Yorkers that Michael Bloomberg ignores.                         ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[With Sisters Helping Run Campaign, Materna Wages Spirited Ignizio Challenge]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ For more than a generation, Republicans have had a lock on Staten Island&rsquo;s South Shore but now, Republican Council Member Vincent Ignizio is getting a spirited challenge from Janine Materna.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[In Boro Park, Bloomberg Grapples With Apathy]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.cityhallnews.com/newyork/article-972-in-boro-park-bloomberg-grapples-with-apathy.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[ Former Bloomberg campaign aide Michael Fragin said that while Bill Thompson was unlikely to pick up many votes in the neighborhood, the real question for the Bloomberg campaign is voter apathy in an area that proved a treasure trove of votes for the mayor in his last two campaigns. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Financial Dispute, Accusations Against Judith Hope Split Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Ten board resignations, while founding members complain of direction taken by Cathy Lasry  The Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee, an influential women's political action committee founded nine years ago as a spinoff of the state Democratic Party, has been ripped apart by allegations of financial improprieties, with at least ten board members resigning in protest.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[After Lazar Loss, Dov Hikind May Be Next Target Among Brooklyn Jews]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Boro Park power broker's influence in doubt after 18-point defeat of backed candidate  On the day after David Greenfield's stunning 18-point special election victory over Joe Lazar, leaders in the Hasidic community of Boro Park were already making calls about the elections this November.

But they were not looking for a candidate to run against Greenfield&mdash;though he will have to run again for the Council seat he just won.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[As ACORN Fades, Its Successor's Political Clout May Grow]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.cityhallnews.com/newyork/article-1208-as-acorn-fades-its-successors-political-clout-may-grow.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[As ACORN Fades, Its Successor's Political Clout May Grow No longer accepting government funding, New York Communities for Change may join the Working Families coalition Now that ACORN is shuttering its headquarters and splintering into dozens of different grassroots groups, its leaders across the country and in New York are doubling down on the very thing that has antagonized its conservative critics.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Koch-Led Reform Group To Focus On Independent Redistricting]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.cityhallnews.com/newyork/article-1214-koch-led-reform-group-to-focus-on-independent-redistricting.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Without deeper structure, skeptics say, amassed forces may be ineffective in fall race In 1962, a very frail Eleanor Roosevelt climbed up a shaky ladder at a rally in Washington Square Park to lend a helping hand to the Assembly campaign of a young firebrand named Ed Koch.

Roosevelt had spent years, along with Sen. Herbert Lehman, driving Carmine DeSapio out of power as the top power broker of the Democratic Party.        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[With Paid Sick Leave Back In The Waiting Room, Both Sides Take Stock]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Proponents hold off bashing Quinn as business-led study adds months to process In mid-July, a few weeks after she announced that she would table the controversial paid sick leave bill for several months while the business community further studied its impact, Council Speaker Christine Quinn arrived for an early morning speech before the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.

The room was packed with small business owners, the very people who have lobbied intensely against bringing the bill to the Council floor. Officials from the Partnership for New York City, which is studying the long-term effects of the legislation, sat in the front row.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Promises, Promises, Promises]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ All candidates make them during campaign season, but most of the time they are forgotten after inauguration day, as %uFFFDnew priorities,%uFFFD in politician-speak, arise.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mr. Bloomberg Keeps Going To Washington]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The mayor restructures his approach to Congress in term three  In mid-June, Mayor Michael Bloomberg called New York City's congressional delegation to his de-facto residence at Gracie Mansion for an emergency meeting.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Crossing Borders]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[As businessman and Republican, Bloomberg moves to change the shape of the immigration debate After the year-long trauma of passing health care reform and with likely bruising midterm elections on the horizon, even the rosiest immigration advocates have largely given up hope for getting immigration reform passed any time this year.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Navigating Politics]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Bloomberg's days as a candidate may be over, but his political involvement is evolving  Donovan, the Republican attorney general nominee, clearly has Michael Bloomberg's support. The mayor endorsed Donovan at his campaign kick-off, speaks warmly of him whenever given the chance and has already hosted a fundraiser for the Staten Island district attorney at his townhouse.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The LGBT Movement, Still On The Move]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.cityhallnews.com/newyork/article-1352-the-lgbt-movement-still-on-the-move.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[A Reflection In its early days, the movement consisted mostly of young people, often students or recent graduates. They came of age in the era of the civil rights and anti-war movements and their style was activist. Involvement in a cause was a matter of justice, and politics was a calling, not a profession.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Do New York Democrats Have A Wall Street Problem?]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Balancing pitchfork populism, deep-pocketed donors and keeping capital in the financial capital Ask anyone on Wall Street to host a fundraiser for a Democrat in New York these days, expect a blank stare.

Ask any Democrat to accept a donation from someone working for a bank, investment firm or hedge fund, and expect the same reaction.

Cancelled fundraisers, unreturned phone calls, dire predictions of the end of New York as the national campaign finance ATM.

Do the New York Democrats have a Wall Street problem? ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Another Year, Another Crisis At The Board Of Elections]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[No director, no budget, no clear plan for rollout of new machines in September  The New York City Board of Elections is in crisis. Again.

But this year, the agency--which has never been known as a bastion of efficiency and strong management--appears to be headed toward a whole new set of problems. It&rsquo;s preparing to roll out the first new machines local voters have seen in decades without an executive director, short around $19 million, and lacking any clear plan about how to make it through the fall.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Liu York City]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.cityhallnews.com/newyork/article-959-liu-york-city.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[ How history, labor and luck made a comptroller&mdash;and how he holds them together for 2013 Retired Chinese workers trailed John Liu&rsquo;s every move, reaching out to touch his clothes as he passed.

As he greeted voters on the Bowery, cars honked and strangers screamed at him, pleading with him in Mandarin to let them take his picture.                ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[WFP Candidates Run, But WFP Appears Unlikely To Run With Them]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Spoiler fears force Jung to quit as Schulman, Davila and Griffith grasp for support S.J. Jung thought he had a clear second chance to win a Council seat.

An internal campaign poll showed that Jung, a Korean-American who finished second in the Democratic primary to replace John Liu, was in range to beat two Chinese-American challengers&mdash;one Democrat, one Republican&mdash;in the general election, if he ran on the Working Families Party (WFP) line.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Veteran]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Back and Forth: Freddy Ferrer Sitting in his office at Mercury Public Affairs, Ferrer discussed the race, the mob and Thompson&rsquo;s advantages. And mustaches.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Working Families Prepares To Bite Into The Big Apple]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.cityhallnews.com/newyork/article-957-working-families-prepares-to-bite-into-the-big-apple.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Broad strokes of agenda come into focus in wake of electoral victories Two days after the run-off elections that saw both their candidates cruise to easy citywide victories, and two weeks after they swept a number of City Council races, a handful of Working Families Party-backed area politicians and allies gathered by the courthouse in Lower Manhattan to advocate for mandatory paid sick and family leave.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Gamble]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Weighing the risks and rewards of a Bloomberg third term On Saturday, Oct. 17, Michael Bloomberg went to synagogue. He was not there to pray, though at least not using anything out of the usual liturgy.                                        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[With Quinn Seeming Safe, Short List Emerges To Fill Open Chairs]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Some worry, some dismiss worries, about influence of new members and new forces Post primary, one of the biggest questions this fall has been the fate and future of Council Speaker Christine Quinn.                                                                ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[FDNY Looks To Put Out Fires In Considering Scopetta Successor]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Hopes for new commissioner to come from within ranks, solve longstanding issues At a Council hearing last March, Tony Avella offered Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta a challenge.

With the Bloomberg administration planning to close 16 ladder and engine companies due to budget shortfalls, Avella prodded the 76-year-old commissioner to tender his resignation as a show of solidarity with his men.                                ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[With Role In DC In Question, Carri&oacute;n Eyes LG Run]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Carri&oacute;n said to be reaching out to Cuomo about candidacy  &quot;I am delighted to be home. I am thrilled to be home,&quot; said Adolfo Carri&oacute;n, the former Bronx borough president, as he kicked off a keynote address at the Waldorf Astoria before the Regional Plan Association. &quot;So many friends in the audience. It&rsquo;s good to be home.&quot;

Carri&oacute;n, talked about as a possible mayoral candidate for 2013, has not been home much lately: for the past year he has been in Washington serving as President Barack Obama's first director of the newly created Office of Urban Affairs. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Spin Doctor]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Anthony Weiner has a bet going with his staff about how this article will begin.

He has been profiled so many times, sat through so many television interviews and attempts at creative questions. Hyper-aware of how he comes across and how he wants to come across, he can almost automatically trace where every line on him will lead.                        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[In Kingsbridge, A Test For Diaz, Labor And New Order On The Council]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[With Baez defeated, new powers war over major Bronx development project  For nearly a decade, the Kingsbridge Armory, a striking red brick hulk built in 1917 to house the National Guard, has sat vacant amidst the poverty-stricken neighborhoods of the northwest Bronx.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Good-Government Group Grapples To Get Beyond Insider Game]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Citizens Union looks to gain muscle, reform Albany and redefine itself In late October, the city&rsquo;s elite gathered at The Pierre to drink cocktails, dine on salmon and celebrate another year in the books for the Citizens Union, the city&rsquo;s centuryold good-government organization first formed to fight Tammany Hall.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[High Hopes For GOP Council Conference With New Heights In Membership]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Plans to ally with moderate Democrats, provide swing bloc in fractured chamber Then came the surprise special election win by 24-year-old Eric Ulrich, who not only won a full term earlier this month, but was returned to City Hall with two more Queens Republicans: Peter Koo, a first-generation Chinese-American, and Dan Halloran, the Council%uFFFDs first-ever Theodist.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Recalibration Of Tony Avella: State Senate Candidate, Conciliator]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Preparing for run against Padavan, the reliable firebrand bites his tongue  Voters in Queens are used to Tony Avella the rebel, the rabblerouser, the gleeful, swiping, sniping firebrand.

But are they ready for the new Tony Avella, the conciliatory and circumspect, the cautious and calculating politician?]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[For Castro, No Fidelity From Heastie And New Bronx County Organization]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[As with Baez, an effort to take out an old Rivera ally  The Bronx Assemblyman has a negative balance in his campaign account, prosecutors investigating him on allegations he committed election fraud and a newly galvanized county Democratic organization gunning for his seat.

His situation is in many ways similar to that of Maria Baez, who lost her City Council seat after a bruising primary with a party-backed candidate last year. Both Castro and Baez are close allies of Jos&eacute; Rivera, who was usurped as county leader by his Assembly colleague Carl Heastie in 2008. Both Castro and Baez have recently come under scrutiny for alleged unethical behavior.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[In Boro Park, A Battle Between Old- and New-Style Politics]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Greenfield&rsquo;s aggressive tactics created fractures with former boss Hikind  To all outside appearances, Assembly Member Dov Hikind had been something of a mench for his former chief of staff, David Greenfield.

When Greenfield had gone to Albany to lobby elected officials, he had lunched in Hikind&rsquo;s office. A couple years ago, Hikind&rsquo;s political club, the United New York Democrats, held an event honoring Greenfield for his community service.        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tackling 2013]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Consider, for a moment, the end days of 2009: After spending a sum that would make the Prince of Dubai blush, Mike Bloomberg won re-election by 10 points under the predictions of the day-of polls. The New York City Council then spent an afternoon overriding three mayoral vetoes, a legislative trick they had turned to just 10 times in the previous four years. The week before, the Council voted to kill Bloomberg&rsquo;s plans to redevelop Kingsbridge Armory after the administration refused a guarantee of living wage for all future employees there. It was the first time the Council had derailed a major Bloomberg administration land-use initiative.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[McMahon In The Middle]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The Staten Island congressman is just like every other first term, marginal Democrat. Only more so. There are 258 Democrats in the House of Representatives, 81 more than there are Republicans. Forty-nine of them represent districts won by John McCain in 2008. Thirty-one of them&mdash;and 39 Democrats overall&mdash;voted against the health care bill that is now getting carved up on either side of Capitol Hill.

Only one of them represents a major American city: Mike McMahon.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Facing Her Own Re-Election, Roberts Looks To Avoid Fallout From Mayoral Election]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Fears of retribution costs for city&rsquo;s largest municipal union in mayor&rsquo;s third term &ldquo;He&rsquo;s changed! He&rsquo;s changed!&rdquo; exclaimed District Council 37 executive director Lillian Roberts.

But now, following Bloomberg&rsquo;s narrow re-election win, Roberts will have to sit down in March with the man she so staunchly opposed and begin hashing out a new contract for the 125,0000-member public employee union.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Stepping Down]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Back and Forth: Betsy Gotbaum With the future of the office still very much in question, though, Gotbaum says she has much to be proud of&mdash;and a few things to regret. While trying to conclude some leftover business, Gotbaum took a moment to discuss her time in office, failing her fingerprint test and the hair issue.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Lion in Winter]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Vito Lopez And The End Of County The windows in Cono&rsquo;s Restaurant, in the dwindling Italian section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, are lined with snake plants. Mother-in-law tongues, they are sometimes called.

Their green stalks fill the restaurant windows from top to bottom and keep anyone from peering inside.

Cono&rsquo;s is a white tablecloth, Italian red sauce kind of place. It is where Brooklyn Democratic powerbroker and party boss Vito Lopez receives the politicians who come from all over the state to pay tribute to him.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ As David Greenfield drove his Honda down Ocean Avenue, he pointed to the one- and two-family homes lining the streets of Midwood and complained about how much each one cost.

&ldquo;That one on the corner? A million-anda-half to two million. That little one? Only a million,&rdquo; said Greenfield. &ldquo;Plus, you&rsquo;ve got the tickets, property tax increases, water rates, tuition costs. For a lot of young families like mine, these costs are really astounding.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Administration retreats from goal of reducing homelessness as record numbers of families seek shelter  At a joint hearing this month on the city&rsquo;s decision to revoke 3,000 federal housing vouchers for needy families, members of three different City Council committees took turns grilling Bloomberg administration officials on why the money disappeared and what could be done to replace it.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Fur and pearls vs. dark suits and trendy scarves as Saujani tries to unseat incumbent Last year, Rep. Carolyn Maloney was hoping to be in a primary against a younger, well-financed female opponent this fall. But instead of running against Kirsten Gillibrand for the Senate as she had planned, Maloney is defending her own congressional seat against Reshma Saujani, a 34-year-old Democratic fundraiser and hedge fund lawyer.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Determined not to let his shamed exit from the governor&rsquo;s race be the end of his political career, Gov. David Paterson has approached several associates and at least one campaign operative in what he has told them is &ldquo;serious consideration&rdquo; of a primary challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, whom he appointed to the Senate in January 2009.         ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Mayor Michael Bloomberg has purchased a vacation home on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, according to property records obtained by City Hall.

Administration sources dismissed any significance to the mayor&rsquo;s purchase of the 14-acre $11 million estate in the state that will cast the first votes for the 2012 presidential nomination.                 ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Hopefuls begin circling Assembly seat, as would-be Harlem heir looks to Congress Adam Clayton Powell IV is banking on a number of factors in his uphill primary battle against Rep. Charlie Rangel: an empowered Latino voter base seeking to overthrow the black political establishment in Harlem, the anti-incumbency mood among voters, Rangel's legal and ethical misfortunes continuing to pile up, and, of course, the most famous name in Harlem politics, which is all over street signs and buildings in the district.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[That most New Yorkers Have Never Heard Of Kevin Sheekey is gone. Ed Skyler is going. Patti Harris is expected to follow soon enough%uFFFDand that is just in the bullpen. The agencies have been going through their own turnover. And over on the Council side, there are 13 Council members who have been in office for just a few months.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[City takeover, disbandment, IG report loom for former comptroller's landing spot The original chair of the Battery Park City Authority, Charles Urstadt, now wants the agency disbanded. The authority's recently retired chair, Jim Gill, left the job because nearly all the land in Battery Park City has been developed, and Gill said he had no work left do.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, meanwhile, is strongly considering exercising New York City's long-held option to buy Battery Park City from the state for $1.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Dan Donovan presents his case  The first question posed to Dan Donovan after he officially became a candidate for attorney general boiled down, simply, to this: &quot;Do you really think you can win?&quot; That was what the half-handful of reporters who had come to cover what had become one of the most long-awaited and eagerly anticipated political announcements of the year wanted to know.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[As Goldsmith Arrives, Indianapolis Friends And Foes Predict Performance, Preferences]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[New Bloomberg deputy praised for urban initiatives, but challenged on finances How do you go from being the mayor of the 14th-largest city in the country to deputy mayor of the largest? Is it a step up or a step down?

This is what friends, adversaries and colleagues of former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith are wondering as they watch him officially assume his new role as deputy mayor for operations in the Bloomberg administration on June 1.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Primary challenges galore as Dem boss Heastie tries to quash talk of takeover  Wile most of the city has been relatively quiet this primary season, the Bronx is already a smoldering hotbed of activity.

Eric Schneiderman's open State Senate seat, a competitive race to knock off embattled Sen. Pedro Espada, Jr., and half a dozen competitive Assembly races and district leader races are already getting heated.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Huntley supporters peg 25-year-old almost-Council upset winner a political opportunist  At a midtown Manhattan gay bar called Therapy, Lynn Nunes mingled with about 50 supporters at the kickoff fundraiser for his primary challenge against State Sen. Shirley Huntley.

In a speech before the crowd, Nunes promised that with their support, Huntley would go the way of George Onorato and Hiram Monserrate, two other Queens senators who voted against the same-sex marriage bill last year and will not be back in 2011. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Little-noticed budget item may not deliver on firefighter cuts or cost savings  While the annual fight over preserving engine companies in the city budget occupied the headlines, a lesser-noticed budget item that would reduce the crew on 60 engine companies from five firefighters to four was passed as part of the final deal.

The move, according to the department, will save nearly $8 million from a $1.6 billion budget, mostly through the loss of 300 firefighters to attrition, along with the associated pension and fringe costs, like overtime.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Balancing pitchfork populism, deep-pocketed donors and keeping capital in the financial capital Ask anyone on Wall Street to host a fundraiser for a Democrat in New York these days, expect a blank stare.

Ask any Democrat to accept a donation from someone working for a bank, investment firm or hedge fund, and expect the same reaction.

Cancelled fundraisers, unreturned phone calls, dire predictions of the end of New York as the national campaign finance ATM.

Do the New York Democrats have a Wall Street problem? ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Proponents hold off bashing Quinn as business-led study adds months to process In mid-July, a few weeks after she announced that she would table the controversial paid sick leave bill for several months while the business community further studied its impact, Council Speaker Christine Quinn arrived for an early morning speech before the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.

The room was packed with small business owners, the very people who have lobbied intensely against bringing the bill to the Council floor. Officials from the Partnership for New York City, which is studying the long-term effects of the legislation, sat in the front row.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[No director, no budget, no clear plan for rollout of new machines in September  The New York City Board of Elections is in crisis. Again.

But this year, the agency--which has never been known as a bastion of efficiency and strong management--appears to be headed toward a whole new set of problems. It&rsquo;s preparing to roll out the first new machines local voters have seen in decades without an executive director, short around $19 million, and lacking any clear plan about how to make it through the fall.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Back and Forth: George Gonzalez After six months of deadlock following the resignation of Marcus Cederqvist, the surprise candidacy of former State Sen. Serf Maltese quickly crystallized the selection process of George Gonzalez as the new executive director of the City Board of Elections. Though new in the top job, Gonzalez has been with the agency since the early 1980s, and says he has become very familiar with its ins and outs, as well as the criticisms that are often leveled at its operations.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Little-noticed budget item may not deliver on firefighter cuts or cost savings  While the annual fight over preserving engine companies in the city budget occupied the headlines, a lesser-noticed budget item that would reduce the crew on 60 engine companies from five firefighters to four was passed as part of the final deal.

The move, according to the department, will save nearly $8 million from a $1.6 billion budget, mostly through the loss of 300 firefighters to attrition, along with the associated pension and fringe costs, like overtime.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Back and Forth: Fred Newman Fred Newman, the controversial psychotherapist, philosopher, playwright and political activist, has not been in the news as much as his onetime nemesis, Frank MacKay, the chair of the State Independence Party who once tried to boot Newman from the party over his beliefs.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Montgomery is unfazed by challenger, anti-incumbent mood in race for 14th term The first week in August, at Old-Timers Day in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Sen. Velmanette Montgomery and her challenger, Mark Pollard, nearly collided rounding opposite sides of the same tree.

Montgomery and Pollard, an attorney and law professor, stood face-to-face for the first time in their campaign against each other.]]></description>
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