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AND VACANCY DECONTROL MUST BE REPEALED
Since rent regulation was deemed invalid upon tenant vacancy in 1993, New York City has seen an onslaught of greed and tenant harassment that defies description. As NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer said last year: “Housing is the number one issue … Continue reading
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DE BLASIO’S LAWYER WHORES BEING PAID TO TURN HIM EVEN MORE ANTI-PRESERVATION THAN HE ALREADY IS
These people are disturbed; they have no civic pride or consciousness at all. They need to be re-programmed. In The City, Yoav Gonen and Greg B. Smith broke the story. It seems that Disney wants to build a new tower … Continue reading
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THIS IS THE SICK SOCIALISM THAT THE GOP LOVES
Use public funds to subsidize research–then turn it over for free to the private sector so it can make billions from it while screwing the taxpayers who funded the original research. That’s why Dem. Reps. Cummings and Ocasio-Cortez were grilling … Continue reading
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DEREGULATION IS DISASTER FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
Trump should not be allowed to BRAG about it. Democrats, anyone?
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THIS IS FUNNY
In Marseilles during New York City Ballet’s 1955 European tour, Balanchine was rehearsing Maria Tallchief in his one-act Swan Lake, which she had created four years earlier. As was his wont, Balanchine was making changes to what he’d originally staged … Continue reading
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YES, I KNOW
that I said that Laura Jacobs and I were going to have an on-line parley about La Clemenza di Tito, but she’s been totally busy with an exciting new project. But there a few things I want to say–say them … Continue reading
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APA LEADERSHIP ACTED TO PROTECT TRUMP & BETRAY AMERICA
With their ridiculous “Goldwater Rule” gag order on the psychiatric profession, which had a moral and patriotic obligation to warn America about Trump. It was, as usual in our overly-institutional society, a top-down act by the American Psychiatric Association. Yale … Continue reading
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WHAT IS GOING ON W/THE FRONT PAGE OF NYTIMES.com?
An entire DAY later, and no headline there about a federal judge ordering that Mueller’s unreacted report be released. Who makes these decisions? To whom are they accountable? P.S. Was it because it WAS on the front page of Washington … Continue reading
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I WON’T VOTE FOR ANY DEMOCRAT WHO OPPOSES IMPEACHMENT
Enough is enough–the president is ravaging our democracy with daily-increasing ferocity. Nancy Pelosi is making the same mistake that her predecessor Dick Gephardt made in 2002 when he thought if the Dems just went along with George W. Bush’s Iraq … Continue reading
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IF TREASON BRINGS LONG SENTENCES, WHY AREN’T YOU IN JAIL, MR. TRUMP?
Traitorous Trump and his scurrilous troll AG Barr double down on accusing any attempt to hold them accountable to law an act of treason. This a full-bore conspiracy to obstruct justice and overturn American democracy. This is as we learn … Continue reading
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