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If we are truly interested in changing the rates of obesity issue, our take cannot simply be that sugary and high-fat food is all that is within walking distance to poor New Yorkers. It simply isn’t true.

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If we are truly interested in changing the rates of obesity issue, our take cannot simply be that sugary and high-fat food is all that is within walking distance to poor New Yorkers. It simply isn’t true.

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan in His Own Words

We're a manufacturing city. If we ever cease to be that we will begin to die. And we are ceasing, we're losing jobs. We can get them back, but only as we understand that is the first priority we have. Jobs, that's the first priority, jobs, that's the second ...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan in His Own Words

We're a manufacturing city. If we ever cease to be that we will begin to die. And we are ceasing, we're losing jobs. We can get them back, but only as we understand that is the first priority we have. Jobs, that's the first priority, jobs, that's the second ...

In NJ, Adler Campaign Reportedly Recruited Tea Party Candidate as Stalking Horse

Republican Party officials in New Jersey are asking federal authorities to investigate the reelection campaign of Rep. John Adler (D-N.J.). Adler's campaign in the Third Congressional District in South Jersey – along with the Camden County Democratic Committee – reportedly devised a scheme to siphon votes away from Adler's Republican ...

I think the Democratic party nationwide represents clearly the left, and I think the Republican party nationwide clearly represents the right, both on economic and social issues. And I think it's important not to be vanilla, you can't just be vanilla in this world and political parties have a responsibility to speak out both on economic and social issues.

— Michael Long, Conservative Party of New York State Chairman on Odd Men Out: Three Third Party Chairmen on the NY Election

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I think the Democratic party nationwide represents clearly the left, and I think the Republican party nationwide clearly represents the right, both on economic and social issues. And I think it's important not to be vanilla, you can't just be vanilla in this world and political parties have a responsibility to speak out both on economic and social issues.

— Michael Long, Conservative Party of New York State Chairman on Odd Men Out: Three Third Party Chairmen on the NY Election

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Deficit The Big Issue In Connecticut's 4th District Debate

As you'd expect at an event held by the AARP, the hot issues were Social Security and Medicare. But in a year where the struggling economy is everything, Wednesday's 4th District Congressional debate was really all about the deficit.

Deficit The Big Issue In Connecticut's 4th District Debate

As you'd expect at an event held by the AARP, the hot issues were Social Security and Medicare. But in a year where the struggling economy is everything, Wednesday's 4th District Congressional debate was really all about the deficit.

Don't Tell Me about DADT — I Was There

Don't Ask, Don't Tell is an inane policy, one in which we compel people to lie to their superiors about who and what they are as people. But while many on the left are cheering the ruling by U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips ordering an immediate halt to DADT policy, ...

Don't Tell Me about DADT — I Was There

Don't Ask, Don't Tell is an inane policy, one in which we compel people to lie to their superiors about who and what they are as people. But while many on the left are cheering the ruling by U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips ordering an immediate halt to DADT policy, ...

Reports Say Former Car Czar Has Reached a Settlement with SEC

According to reports from The New York Times, Steven Rattner, the man who oversaw the Obama Adminsistration's turnaround of the auto industry, has apparently reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over his role in a large and long-standing pension fund kickback scheme.

Don't Break the Infrastructure Banks

When Obama announced his plan to ask Congress to approve his $50 billion allocation to improve our roads and railways through the Infrastructure Bank, and Andrew Cuomo announced his plans for a State Infrastructure Bank, I was elated. Now the question is: will Congress ...

Forget Mañana: Making the Latino Vote Count Today

Why don’t Latinos have more clout? Their increasing population suggests they could regularly influence elections across the Southwest as well as in Illinois and Florida. When elections are tight because Anglo votes are divided, they can even swing states like Indiana and North Carolina which they may have done in ...

Forget Mañana: Making the Latino Vote Count Today

Why don’t Latinos have more clout? Their increasing population suggests they could regularly influence elections across the Southwest as well as in Illinois and Florida. When elections are tight because Anglo votes are divided, they can even swing states like Indiana and North Carolina which they may have done in ...

We have gotten to so many points in this particular campaign that I thought would never hear in a major election. You don’t say somebody is not a good father unless they’ve been arrested or something. You just don’t do this stuff.”

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We have gotten to so many points in this particular campaign that I thought would never hear in a major election. You don’t say somebody is not a good father unless they’ve been arrested or something. You just don’t do this stuff.”

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