By
Steven Wishnia From the
December 31, 1969 issue | Posted in
IndyBlog,
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Steve Wishnia It wasn’t quite Hiram Monserrate proposing a bill to get tough on domestic violence, but it came close.
State Senator Pedro Espada (D/R/D-Bronx) came to City Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 17, to announce his new proposal for a rent freeze. Espada’s bill, S.6811, would freeze rents for all rent-stabilized tenants who make less than $45,000 a [...]
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By
Steven Wishnia From the
December 11, 2009 issue | Posted in
Local,
Steve Wishnia Downtown Brooklyn may still see the Atlantic Yards sports arena and housing project sprout up, but the recession is more likely to kill it than the lawsuits filed by opponents.
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By
Steven Wishnia From the
December 31, 1969 issue | Posted in
IndyBlog,
Not an Article,
Steve Wishnia By Steven Wishnia
Like a septic-tank explosion, the Republican National Convention had to be seen to be believed.
These people are not just mad corporate-imperial cowboys and religious fanatics obsessed with policing other people’s sex lives. In hours of prime-time TV, they offered scarcely a single idea or policy to the American people. Instead they endlessly repeated [...]
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