Kathleen Horan

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Many New Yorkers are preparing to travel to the nation's capital for Tuesday's inauguration.

REPORTER: Governor Paterson has directed the state's National Guard to send more than 200 soldiers to help with security and crowd control. National Guard Spokesman Eric Durr says they leave Sunday:

DURR: So ...

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How do you bridge a more than one billion dollar budget deficit? That's the question the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was attempting to answer last night at the first of eight public hearings. WNYC's Kathleen Horan has more.

REPORTER: The cold weather sure didn't ...

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For the first time in history a lesbian, gay, and transgendered marching band has been chosen to perform in the presidential inaugural parade. The Lesbian and Gay Band Association has assembled nearly 180 members from all over the country to play. 40 of them are ...

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The city's fire department says response times citywide, on average, dropped by 15 seconds last year, compared to 2007.

Fire officials say the response time is the best in 14 years. Fire fatalities also decreased, from 95 in 2007, to 86 in 2008. Mayor Bloomberg says ...

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City council members are seeking to give drivers a five-minute "grace period" after a parking meter expires before a traffic agent slaps a ticket on their windshield.

Several lawmakers say a "ticketing blitz" is underway, and instead of encouraging compliance with meter deadlines, it's punitive. But ...

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As the fighting in Gaza intensifies, many in New York feel personally affected by the conflict.

There have been rallies, demonstrations and lots of discussions. Brooklyn Palestinian, Lena Alhusseini, says it's an unwinnable situation.

ALHUSSEINI: I'm a mother, I would hope my community which I guess would ...

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New Year's Eve means party time for many - but it's also a time of reflection for those who want to make changes in the year ahead. Brooklyn's Rose Marie Champaignie has already made her list of resolutions.

CHAMPAIGNIE: To be more careful with spending, save ...

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The Bloomberg Administration says a record number of tourists visited the city last year - but the two percent increase is smaller than the growth seen in previous years. Forty-six million people traveled to the Big Apple from elsewhere in 2008. Mayor Bloomberg says he's ...

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The Palestinian death toll topped 300 today, most of them Hamas militants, as Israeli jets continued to strike targets in Gaza, where about 40 rockets were fired into southern Israel.

Mayor Bloomberg had some harsh words for Hamas:

BLOOMBERG: New Yorkers certainly know what its like to ...

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Djoniba Drum and Dance Center has been teaching dance in its seventh floor studios since 1992.

But the studio was hit with a huge rent increase and with fewer students able to afford class, it has to shut its doors by the end of the month.

MiMi ...

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In a sharp reversal, the Bloomberg administration has decided to shelve its plan to "modernize" senior centers. WNYC's Kathleen Horan has more:

REPORTER: To call the proposal to makeover senior centers in the city unpopular would be an understatement. But the Department for the Aging said ...

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To call the proposal to makeover senior centers in the city unpopular would be an understatement.

But the Department for the Aging said it was necessary because the city is graying and fast. And centers aren't being utilized with only two percent of seniors actually using ...

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Have your credit cards or mortgage payments become characters in your nightmares? Then the city's free financial hotline might help.

All this week, volunteers from financial institutions and universities will be answering calls from 9 AM to 7 PM.

Consumer Affairs Commissioner Jonathan Mintz says the "Money ...

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The plans to cut nearly $900 million from the state education budget over the next two years clearly has advocates worried.

They argue that school programs should not be cut at the same rate as other agencies when Governor Paterson tries to shave more than $5 ...

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Before Xeroxing and digital images, if a business needed a menu, a poster or a coupon booklet mass produced, they'd take it to a local printer. It would be set in type and pressed to paper - the artwork saved for the next printing. Henington ...

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The New York Civil Liberties Union is calling for an investigation into allegations of excessive force by school safety officers in a Queens high school.

REPORTER: About a dozen students from Hillcrest High School have come forward claiming they've been threatened and assaulted by the agents. ...

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The New York Civil Liberties Union is calling for an investigation into allegations of excessive force by school safety officers in a Queens high school.

About a dozen students from Hillcrest High School have come forward claiming they've been threatened and assaulted by the agents.

NYCLU's Donna ...

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The life of Studs Terkel, the renowned oral historian, radio personality, actor and writer, was celebrated last night at The Great Hall of Cooper Union. WNYC's Kathleen Horan has more:

REPORTER: A famous Chicagoan, Studs Terkel was born only a few blocks away from the Great ...

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The debate rages on at City Hall as to whether the city should go forward with its planned modernization of the more than 300 senior centers around the city.

Many elderly New Yorkers and their advocates worry that the plan to update centers, or potentially lose ...

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There's no holiday for parking rules on this day after Thanksgiving. An analysis of a year's worth of tickets by the New York Times found traffic agents issued more than 41,000 citations on Black Friday, almost double the daily average. Under Mayor Bloomberg, the number ...