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10 Nov 2013, 8:21 am
"Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has promised that on Day 1 of his administration, he would withdraw New York City’s appeal of sweeping reforms ordered by a federal judge in the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices." [read post]
8 Nov 2013, 8:40 am
Bill de Blasio is the kind of guy who supported Occupy Wall Street from its start, even addressing the encampment in Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park while still the city’s Public Advocate. [read post]
5 Nov 2013, 6:46 pm
"Bill de Blasio poised to usher in new era of liberal governance in New York," says the Washington Post. [read post]
5 Nov 2013, 6:09 am
[Businessweek] * Bill de Blasio, the Democratic candidate in the NYC mayoral race, apparently has “deep ties” to Gibson Dunn, the firm behind Citizens United. [read post]
4 Nov 2013, 5:29 am
In a report yesterday on the upcoming mayoral election, the New York Times says that either of the top two candidates-- Bill de Blasio or Joseph Lhota-- will be more accommodating of religious practices than Mayor Bloomberg has been:They [both] say they would accommodate two of the most important Muslim holy days [on school calendars], allow church services on school property, and work with Jewish leaders to ease the city’s supervision of circumcision rituals. [read post]
1 Nov 2013, 9:33 am
Gustavo Rivera (D-Tremont), who sponsored a bill that legalized the group’s work last year. [read post]
25 Oct 2013, 12:55 pm
The New York Times has just posted on-line an article by James Stewart, discussing mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio's "tale of two cities" theme and recently expressed interest in taxing the ultra-wealthy (whom he defines as those making more than $500,000 per year) to fund pre-kindergarten and after-school care.It's not clear how much (if anything) de Blasio could actually do in this regard, given Albany's power over tax changes even if they are just in… [read post]
25 Oct 2013, 5:55 am
Some reasons to think Bill de Blasio’s schemes for “mandatory inclusionary zoning” are likely to fall short. [read post]
20 Oct 2013, 12:19 pm
De Blasio has said he supports adding the Chinese New Year, but his campaign wouldn’t comment on Diwali. [read post]
19 Oct 2013, 5:20 pm
Lhota's Democratic opponent in the mayoral race, Bill de Blasio, said: "I find it perplexing that he would have organized an event in a situation women wouldn’t have access to." [read post]
3 Oct 2013, 9:01 am
I'd said that the attack would hurt the campaign of the Democrats' left-wing candidate for NYC mayor, so I'm interested in how the seemingly soft-on-crime de Blasio addresses the incident.He said: “We I believe are seeing a phenomenon with some of these motorcycle groups deciding to take over certain streets so they can perform their stunts, and disrupt traffic, slow traffic in the process, and it’s dangerous. [read post]
1 Oct 2013, 11:50 am
A photo essay, from last August about NYC in they pre-Giuliani years, which I ran across this afternoon as I was thinking about the electoral prospects of the left-Democrat mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio in the aftermath of Alexian Lien's motorpsycho nightmare. [read post]
1 Oct 2013, 9:22 am
There's a lot to talk about here, but one thing is damage to the mayoral candidacy of the left-wing Democrat Bill de Blasio. [read post]
27 Sep 2013, 2:20 pm
WNYC’s Brain Lehrer asked Bill de Blasio (the Democratic candidate for mayor of NYC). [read post]
20 Sep 2013, 12:03 pm
Democratic mayoral candidate William Thompson conceded and threw his support behind leading vote-getter and fellow Democrat Bill de Blasio. [read post]
20 Sep 2013, 6:54 am
Beinart had been talking about Bill de Blasio... ... but in Colorado—where a hyper-ideological, insurrectionist, corporate-money-soaked minority... recalled two progressive legislatures for daring to favor background checks for gun purchases even though Coloradans want background checks by a margin of 68 to 27 percent.Beinart wants to think big. [read post]
9 Sep 2013, 8:57 am
New York: “Bill de Blasio fails to go public about all meetings with lobbyists” by Mara Gay in the New York Daily News. [read post]
8 Sep 2013, 5:57 am
What a gift to de Blasio! [read post]
8 Aug 2013, 8:39 am
I was oddly cheered by De Blasio Takes His Modern Family on the Campaign Trail. [read post]
20 Jul 2012, 11:30 am
Please join me in showing our appreciation by signing our card to Chairman Lhota and the MTA Board at http://advocate.nyc.gov/gtrain Thank you to everyone who played a part in this victory, Bill de Blasio NYC Public Advocate [read post]
