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Defending Stop-And-Frisk, Bloomberg Slams Philadelphia's Crime Rate

Posted 05.25.2012

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Mayor Bloomberg does not have kind words for the City of Brotherly Love. Responding to a New York Times editorial suggesting the NYPD fix stop-and-...

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The After-School Crisis: What Mayor Bloomberg's Massive Cuts Could Mean For One Of The Most Highly Regarded After-School Programs In The Country

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.21.2012

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Some of the poems were about love and some were about clouds, but what really mattered about the P.S. 63 poetry reading on Wednesday night was the tim...

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Federal Judge Slams NYPD Over Stop and Frisk, Opens Lawsuit to Millions

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 05.16.2012

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Opponents of the New York Police Department's controversial stop-and-frisk program scored a major victory in court Wednesday, after a federal judge gr...

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Bloomberg To Grads: Ignore Congress, Think Independently

Posted 05.13.2012

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New York City Major Michael Bloomberg powered past his disappointment after not receiving promised ice cream from Franklin and Marshall College Presid...

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Bloomberg: I Didn't 'Bother' To Read 911 Report

AP | SAMANTHA GROSS | Posted 05.09.2012

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NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that he "didn't even bother" to read a report by city-hired consultants that found New York's recentl...

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SEC Watchdog To Be Investigated Over Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct

Reuters | Posted 05.09.2012

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* SEC has received complaint about misconduct in OIG * SEC says it is also referring matter to CIGIE for review * Allega...

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Bloomberg Businessweek Pulls a Bait and Switch

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.04.2012

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The story is less about private equity -- big or small -- and more about bringing efficiency to manufacturing, a standard practice in corporate America, particularly after a merger. That's supposed to be good, right?

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UCLA Violates a Long-Standing Regent's Bequest and Endangers One of the Rarest Private Japanese Gardens in the United States

Charles A. Birnbaum | Posted 05.02.2012

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Preservation of significant designed landscapes, as I've written previously, is no easy matter, so any entity's pledge to maintain a nationally important work of landscape architecture "in perpetuity" is a victory.

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Live Updates From The Milken Global Conference 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 05.01.2012

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Monday marks the first morning of the 15th annual Milken Conference, a four-day long event hosted by the Milken Institute at the Beverly Hilton Hotel....

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Oops! Company Accidentally Fires Huge Number Of Workers

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.20.2012

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More than 1,000 employees at one British company likely had at least one unnecessary panic attack among them on Friday. Some 1,300 workers receive...

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Sell A House, Get A Benz

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.19.2012

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Sell a mansion. Get a Benz. That's at least the deal that one homeowner is offering. Ken Jenkins of Powhatan County, Virginia is offering a brand ...

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Christine Quinn, City Council Calls Mayor Bloomberg's Cuts To Children's Service "Unacceptable"

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 04.18.2012

Hundreds of parents, children and teachers gathered on the steps of New York's City Hall Tuesday to protest Mayor Michael Bloomberg's budget plan, whi...

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Millionaires Can Rest Easy, Buffett Rule Still Has Loopholes To Exploit

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.16.2012

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President Obama's so-called Buffett Rule is supposed to make certain that top-earning Americans don't pay taxes at lower rates than their assistants. ...

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How Bloomberg Broke The Washington Post's Santorum Scoop

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 04.10.2012

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NEW YORK -- The political news cycle kicked into overdrive Tuesday afternoon when Bloomberg News staffers began tweeting that Rick Santorum was leavin...

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Calling Mayor Bloomberg: Release 9-1-1 Report Now

Dan Collins | Posted 04.09.2012

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City Hall refuses to release a report on the effectiveness of New York's revamped emergency response system. The firefighters union says the city is cooking the books when it comes to calculating response time.

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Google CEO On 'Mentor' Steve Jobs: Anger Over Android 'Actually For Show'

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 04.04.2012

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In a new interview with Bloomberg Businessweek's Brad Stone, Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page revealed how the web giant is doing now, what lies a...

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Wall Street No Longer Taking Up The Most Space In Manahattan

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.04.2012

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When it comes to New York office space, Wall Street's no longer king. For the first time ever, financial services firms aren't renting the most of...

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Screening Job Applicants Through Facebook for Jobs Has Been a Dirty Little Secret for Years!

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 03.30.2012

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Recent news stories have announced as part of your ability to gain employment with some companies, perspective employers are demanding your Facebook password -- and now everyone thinks it's a big deal.

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Ex-SEC Chairman Defends Goldman: 'Nobody Really Puts Customers First'

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 03.29.2012

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That old adage that the customer is always right might be true. Whether it matters is up for debate. “Nobody really puts customers first,” Art...

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Bloomberg Urges Successor Not To Live In Gracie Mansion

AP | Posted 03.28.2012

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NEW YORK -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says his successor shouldn't live in the mansion that has long been the official mayoral residence. ...

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The Joy and Growing Pains of Occupy

Kanene Holder | Posted 05.22.2012

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Clearly, the current iteration of America doesn't want us to be seen or heard. What would our Founding Fathers who fought so fervently to ensure protection against tyranny say?

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Michael Bloomberg May Have His Own Army, But Has He Already Lost the War?

Scott Thill | Posted 05.21.2012

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It is during Bloomberg's three mayoral terms that Wall Street has destroyed not just our economy but what remains of last century's American exceptionalism.

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Bloomberg: No Food Donations For The Homeless

Posted 03.20.2012

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In a move that combines the mayor's affinity for overbearing health regulations with his controversial stance on homeless shelters already under fire ...

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Watch FCC Stand By As Verizon and Cable Form New Cartel

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.20.2012

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Since March 2011, Bloomberg has been trying to hold the Comcast-NBCU media behemoth to the promises it made, and agreed to, in order to complete the takeover that resulted in one of the biggest media companies in history.

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Mayor Bloomberg Defends Goldman Sachs After 'I Quit' Editorial

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.16.2012

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NEW YORK -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the attention given to a Goldman Sachs' employee's scathing editorial about the company is "ridiculo...

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