Allegedly corrupt councilman Dan Halloran will not seek re-election | Capital New York
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“There was not a mention of his murder in our papers, our paper of record, the New York Times. ‘All the news that’s fit to print’ did not include the murder of 17-year-old Alfonso Bryant. Do you think that if a white 17-year-old prep student from Manhattan had been murdered, the Times would have ignored it? Me neither.” — Bloomberg attacks the Times and NYCLU for what he says is a racial double standard | Capital New York
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Councilman Dan Halloran makes the front page of The Post.
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Post-Bloomberg New York: cells phone in schools, drones in the sky | Capital New York
De Blasio opposes Airbnb, Quinn tries to 'thread the needle' for them | Capital New York
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In a swipe at Cuomo, Bloomberg says fracking decisions shouldn't be political | Capital New York
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“As it turned out, many of the young people walking into the military recruitment center on 125th Street the next day also saw the inconsistency. In general, they thought that it was true that they were not mature enough to make life-or-death decisions on their own before 21. That applied not only to smoking and drinking, but also to combat.” — Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times
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