$6.50 to Enter a Taxi?
Date: 28 February 2008
By SEWELL CHAN
Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky and other opponents of congestion pricing proposed a plan that would sharply raise the cost of riding taxis and limousines and crack down on parking violations.
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Bloomberg Says He’ll Keep Speaking Out
Date: 28 February 2008
By DIANE CARDWELL
The mayor said he would use his office’s bully pulpit to speak out on issues important to him. He left open the possibility of endorsing a candidate in the presidential race.
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Maybe One Day We’ll Call It ‘the Big Potato’
Date: 28 February 2008
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Blogtalk: A movement to grow spuds in New York, a diary of misfired text messages, the Beastie Boys back in town and more links about New York.
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Illegal Guns on Decline in New York
Date: 28 February 2008
By AL BAKER
An analysis by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shows a sharp drop in the number of illegal guns recovered in the five boroughs last year compared to 2006.
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It’s Really, Finally Official: Bloomberg Won’t Run
Date: 28 February 2008
By SEWELL CHAN
Also in the Morning Buzz: the fallout among Albany Republicans, an end to a respite from homicides in Newark, and testimony expected today in the trial of three detectives charged in the shooting of Sean Bell.
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