1.0 link 225228 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-de-blasio/new-york-city-needs-a-pub_b_225228.html The New York City office of Public Advocate is a desperately needed agent of oversight and accountability in New York City. Yet Mayor Michael Bloomberg has cut the budget for this office by 40% for fiscal year 2010, while he reduced the budget for his own office by just 1%. This was hardly surprising. From his successful bid to extend term limits last fall over the objections of a clear majority of New Yorkers, to the massive sums of public...

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