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Timely: School bus concerns in NY

Posted on April 6, 2011 by kwilder

*Update with some perspective: This threat was made on April 1st – several days ago, with no incidents in the meantime. In addition, a story at Long Island Press notes that state officials are considering the possibility it was just a really irresponsible April Fool’s joke. Story at Long Island Press: here. KW writes: If […]

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Judicial Hearing on Whether New York State Must Investigate Gitmo Psychologist

Posted on April 5, 2011 by iwilder

First Court in the U.S. to Consider Whether State Ethics Board Must Investigate Claim that Alleged Participation in Torture of Gitmo Detainees was Unethical On Wednesday in Manhattan, a hearing will be held before Justice Sally Ann Scarpula of the New York State Supreme Court to consider whether the state must investigate an ethics complaint […]

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Work of activists helped prevent Fukushima-style cluster of nuclear reactors on Long Island

Posted on March 26, 2011 by iwilder

One of those dedicated, anti-Shoreham activists was Green Party of Suffolk chair Roger Snyder.  The Green Party was founded in opposition to nuclear energy and weapons. As a reporter for a Long Island weekly in the 1980s, Grossman covered the relentless band of anti-nuclear activists who packed government hearings and filed repeated suits against granting […]

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Green Party Nominates Ian “Koch” Murphy for Congress (26-NY)

Posted on March 23, 2011 by iwilder

Will Challenge Major Parties on Peace, Budget Priorities, Single Payer Health Care, Worker Rights The Green Party of NY State has officially nominated Ian Murphy as its candidate for upcoming special Congressional election in the 26th District.  The Green Party said it wanted to provide an alternative to the anti-worker, pro-war, pro-corporate, anti-environmental agenda of the Democratic and Republican Parties. The […]

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Jennifer Dotson (G-Ithaca) Calls on Guv Cuomo to have the Wealthy Pay their Fair Share

Posted on March 16, 2011 by iwilder

Following is the text of a resolution Jennifer Dotson introduced at the City of Ithaca’s Common Council meeting. She is the First Ward Alderperson, Green Party, and Chair of the Planning and Economic Development Committee. The resolution passed unanimously (8 Dem, 1 Independent, 1 Green) and a similar one passed unanimously through the county legislature (12 Dem, 3 Repub). Next stop […]

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Greenwich mayor (G-NY) comes out against nuclear energy proliferation

Posted on March 16, 2011 by iwilder

A resolution proposed by village [Green Party] Mayor David Doonan opposing the construction of any new nuclear power plant was tabled after some disapproval was expressed by other members of the Village Board. Doonan said he opposed any such facility because there has been no solution to the question of what to do with the […]

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Flood of Foreclosures Expected Just as Funding to Help Homeowners Dries Up

Posted on March 11, 2011 by iwilder

Foreclosure Tsunami Will Hit New York Soon – Just as State’s Foreclosure Prevention Funding Runs Out New analysis of data from the Federal Reserve of New York shows that the foreclosure crisis in New York is far from over – and without legislative action to provide funding for the state’s “Foreclosure Prevention Services Program,” thousands […]

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Suffolk County Exec Levy Just Making Stuff Up

Posted on March 9, 2011 by iwilder

On October 30, 2006, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy launched into a detailed rant about the undocumented mothers of US-citizen children, calling them “anchor babies” and fabricating a story about the closure of the maternity ward at Southampton Hospital. Here is the first audio clip in a series drawn from that speech. Statistics: –David Sperling, […]

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Save teaching jobs: Forget hike for consultants

Posted on March 7, 2011 by kwilder

KW writes: While politicians whine about school budgets: The proposal to stop hikes for consultants (or, maybe even let go some consultants) is a great idea, proposed in NYC, that could apply elsewhere. Some folks might also remember the school attorney scandal in NY. Some of the largess of school systems goes to overpaid consultants, […]

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Gov. Cuomo Selling Out Injured Baby Rights by Ralph Nader (via Dandelion Salad)

Posted on March 6, 2011 by iwilder

New York State’s Governor Andrew Cuomo will be judged harshly by history if he doesn’t reverse his position supporting limiting the legal rights of brain damaged babies. Imagine a life-time $250,000 cap on pain and suffering and families having to endure a burdensome and humiliating struggle to get medical bills paid as they arise from […]

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Green Party Urges NYers to Reject Gov. Cuomo’s Budget Attacks on Workers & Poor

Posted on March 6, 2011 by iwilder

Green Party of NY State leaders today called Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget an attack on working and middle class New Yorkers that should be rejected by state lawmakers. “Cuomo’s budget is not about shared sacrifice. The people are forced to sacrifice. The richest 3% get more tax breaks. Cuomo is just recycling failed conservative policies […]

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NYT: Fracking Poisons our Water

Posted on March 2, 2011 by iwilder

The documents reveal that the wastewater, which is sometimes hauled to sewage plants not designed to treat it and then discharged into rivers that supply drinking water, contains radioactivity at levels higher than previously known, and far higher than the level that federal regulators say is safe for these treatment plants to handle. Other documents […]

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NY Assembly Speaker Duryea (R) letter on Roe v. Wade

Posted on February 28, 2011 by iwilder

IW: We spent the last year culling through my parents’ archives.  Both of my parents were activists.   My mother was very much a letter-writer.  She was very involved with the League of Women Voters in the early 70s, and spent a lot of time lobbying elected officials.  Unfortunately, I do not have her letters in […]

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The Trials Giving Steve Levy Nightmares | Long Island Press

Posted on February 27, 2011 by iwilder

This case was small potatoes for the Westhampton Beach attorney, a mere four counts. The worst one is still to come: a 130-count indictment charging Guldi and a handful of others with $82 million in mortgage fraud that links S&M dominatrices in SoHo to real-estate hijinks in the Hamptons. The political ramifications of this upcoming […]

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