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Monday, August 08, 2005

Al Sharpton takes on homophobia in the black community. Ferrer, Miller, Fields, and Weiner take on each other, in the fight to be Mayor Bloomberg’s general election opponent. Even in August, the news in New York City never slows down.

Drawdown

Dante Chinni political columnist for the Christian Science Monitor
- on new John Roberts video and getting out of Iraq
» Dante Chinni's columns (The Christian Science Monitor)

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Does New York Need to Think More Creatively?

Richard Florida public policy professor at George Mason University and author, The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent (Collins, 2005)
- says current policies are putting New York's creative edge at risk
» The Richard Florida Creativity Group

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Big Apple Roundup

Jamal E. Watson executive editor of the Amsterdam News

» The Amsterdam News
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Chris Smith contributing editor at New York Magazine and City politcs columnist

» New York Magazine - on the Mayoral election and other city issues

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Murder 500

Andrew Karmin professor of sociology at John Jay College and author, New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s (NYU Press, 2000)
- on why New York's crime rate is going so low

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Feedback: Richard Florida

Subject: bohemian index
Has your guest been to London or Paris lately? What's happening in New York now, has already happened there. The creative culture, (not to mention the people who service the cities), has been pushed out of the city. Glasgow is the new Soho ...
-JMS

Subject: *Manhattan* is *becoming* unaffordable for...
Becoming? As a creative (photographer/writer) I left *Brooklyn* -- after
having already fled Manhattan because literally all of my neighbors went
from being artistic, etc. to Nanny-raised kids and banker parents.

-Jangly

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