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The Reinvention of Legal Research: The Future Is Now

Peter Schwartz | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Information Age, Internet, Law, Publishing, Data, Bloomberg, Westlaw, Legal Research Online, Lexisnexis, Media News
Peter Schwartz

Legal research, once the province of desks, books, and binders, is now online, data-driven, and real-time. This poses serious challenge to old publishing stalwarts like Westlaw and LexisNexis.

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Mayor Bloomberg's Inaugural Tweet

New York Magazine | Posted 09.11.2009 | Home

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For days, Mayor Bloomberg's Twitter page has carried a steady drumbeat leading up to his inaugural "tweet for the day" -- one personal tweet coming st...

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Cornerstone Program, Affordable Housing Deal, Not Followed Up By Bloomberg

New York Daily News | Adam Lisberg | Posted 09.07.2009 | New York

Read More: Bloomberg, Bloomberg Administration, New York Housing, Mayor Bloomberg, New York Affordable Housing, Affordable Housing New York, Bloombeg Affordable Housing, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Cornerstone Program, Affordable Housing, New York News

The Bloomberg administration never checked to see if developers who got discounted city land in exchange for building affordable housing kept their en...

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New Newspaper Launched To Bash Bloomberg

City Hall | City Hall | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York

Read More: Bloomberg, New York City Mayoral Election, Anti-Bloomberg Newspaper, Nyc, Mayor Bloomberg, Thompson, Michael Bloomberg, New York City Mayor, Fed Up New Yorkers, Election 2009, New York News

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been buying his fair share of ads in local newspapers. But this past weekend, a new ...

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Colin Powell Endorses NYC Mayor Bloomberg's Re-Election Bid

AP | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

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NEW YORK — Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has endorsed New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's re-election bid. Powell offered the...

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NYC Buying One-Way Tickets For Homeless Families To Leave

New York Times | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 08.29.2009 | New York

Read More: NYC Homeless Policies, Bloomberg, Nyc, Bloomberg NYC, Michael Bloomberg, Homeless in Ny, Homelessness Nyc, Homeless, Homeless Families NYC, New York, Bloomberg and Homeless Families, New York News

They are flown to Paris ($6,332), Orlando ($858.40), Johannesburg ($2,550.70), or most frequently, San Juan ($484.20). They are not executives on ...

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Mayor Mike's Homeless Hurdle

Jarrett Murphy | Posted 08.28.2009 | New York

Read More: Homeless, Bloomberg, Campaign 2009, Poverty, Thompson, Mayoral Race, New York City, New York News
Jarrett Murphy

The pressure on low-income families has only increased over the past eight years. According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the median contract rent in New York increased from $706 in 2002 to $950 in 2008, an increase of 12 percent after inflation is figured in.

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Bloomberg Deposed In Discrimination Lawsuit

AP | Posted 08.28.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has completed another round of questioning about accusations that the financial data and news s...

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Bloomberg & Thompson's Dropout Duel

Jarrett Murphy | Posted 08.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Graduation Rate, Bloomberg, Campaign 2009, Schools, Mayoral Race, Thompson, Dropout-Rates, New York News
Jarrett Murphy

The Bloomberg camp can't blame anyone but itself for politicizing the dropout rate, since graduation statistics have figured prominently in all the Bloomberg ads and mailers to which voters have been subjected so far this year.

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School Control Bill Stalls In State Senate

nytimes.com | Jeremy W. Peters | Posted 08.15.2009 | New York

Read More: New York City Schools, Bloomberg, Pedro Espada Jr, New York State Senate, New York City, City Schools, Mayor Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, New York, Senator Pedro Espada Jr, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York News

The New York State Senate has yet to make a decision on legislation that would protect Mayor Michael Bloomberg's control over city schools. It is unce...

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Bloomberg Slams Clinton: She Stabbed NYC In Back

WCBS-TV | Posted 08.13.2009 | New York

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Hillary Clinton was accused Monday of stabbing the Big Apple in the back. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said her betrayal has cost the city $260 million ...

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Some Country for Grumpy Old Men

Chris Norwood | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Baby Boomers, Clinton, New York Senate, Carter, Bloomberg, Senior Politics, Wright, Grumps, Politics News
Chris Norwood

In a media saturated nation, the more off base the pronouncements of those who are both senior and prominent are, the more they are considered "good copy."

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Comptroller William Thompson's Campaign Against Bloomberg Almost Invisibe

New York Times | DAVID W. CHEN and MICHAEL BARBARO | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York

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He is rarely on television. He has not begun to advertise. He is far behind in the polls, yet seems in no rush to get going. The all-but-invisible may...

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Bloomberg: Public Option Is Best Way To Fix Health Care

The New York Daily News | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

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The principles that President Obama has outlined for national health care reform are driven by a goal that I share: universal access to affordable hea...

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Gay Democrats Targeted for Supporting Bloomberg

Ryan J. Davis | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York

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Ryan J. Davis

I'd hate to have both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama wanted for treason, after having said favorable things about Bloomberg in public.

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Bloomberg Markets Magazine Plans Expansion, Lures Time Inc Veteran

Financial Times | Posted 07.26.2009 | Media

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Bloomberg is planning a print and online expansion of its magazine operation, after the deep-pocketed data group signed the latest in a series of vete...

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NYC Odd Couple: Bloomberg, Silver Double-Team Port Authority

nytimes.com | CHARLES V. BAGLI | Posted 07.24.2009 | New York

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Although the negotiations over the World Trade Center site have gone nowhere, the deadlock has produced something of note: a startling alliance betwee...

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Traffic Free Times Square Is A Half-Baked Concept

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 07.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Bloomberg, Manhattan, Herald Square, Automobiles, 34th Street, Police, Bikes, New York City, Greeley Square, Pedicabs, Cars, Times Square, Au Bon Pain, New York News
Stephen C. Rose

Last February Manhattan was apprised of an incipient revolution. Cars and trucks would no longer be welcome in Times Square and on a small stretch of ...

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Media Destroying The Hopes of Mankind

Grant Cardone | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Bloomberg, Fox TV, Cnn, Cnbc, Media and Grant Cardone, Negative Coverage, Media, Abc, Media Hype, CBS News, Grant Cardone, Fox Business Network, Media News
Grant Cardone

The media's real goal is to create as much fear as possible in order to sell their newspapers and advertising.

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Traders, Lap Dances, And Pensions: Overlooked Bloomberg Reports

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business

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We recently came across two criminally overlooked stories from Bloomberg that cover some very impressive ground. In a report from March, Bloomberg t...

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Bloomberg Calls Reporter "A Disgrace" For Questioning Why He's Running For Third Term (VIDEO)

Posted 06.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Reporter Disgrace, Bloomberg Calls, Bloomberg, Mike Bloomberg, Bloomberg Scolds, Azi Paybarah, Mayor Bloomberg, Media News

UPDATE: Azi Paybarah, the reporter scolded by Mayor Bloomberg, writes that mayoral spokesman Stu Loeser called "to relay an apology" from Bloomberg. ...

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Shocking: A Post-Automotive Times Square?

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Bloomberg, Cars, Bicycling, Automobiles, Times Square, Transportation Commissioner, Critical Mass, Environement, New York City, New York, Green News
Steve Rosenbaum

The change in New York's most congested real estate is an acknowledgment that the car culture that has gripped both the city and the country may in fact be, for the first time in half a century, beginning to retreat.

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Will Friday Sermons Condemn Jihadist Plot to Blow Up New York Synagogues?

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

Read More: Jews, Bloomberg, Islam, Synagogues, Explosives, Mosques, 9/11, Terrorism, Plot, Jihad, Fbi, World News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

When Obama expands the limits of dialogue, the first red line he must draw is against the poison of state-sanctioned bigotry that is spawning not only hatred but criminal violence.

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Michael Bloomberg: Republican, Democrat, or Plutocrat?

Sherman Yellen | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

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Sherman Yellen

The wreckage I see all around me is national in scope but here in New York City it has the special Bloomberg logo on it.

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China Bans Foreign Financial News Services

Financial Times | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: Thomson Reuters, Foreign Affairs, Financial News Services, China Financial News Services, Financial News, China Financial Crisis, Bloomberg, Financial TImes, China Media Censorship, Reuters, China Financial Services, China, China-Media, Advocacy, World News

China raised the spectre of renewed international trade friction over market access for foreign financial information providers as the government said...

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