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The Campaigns Heat Up

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Monday, August 29, 2005

In overwhelmingly Democratic New York, primary day is sometimes more important than Election Day. With just over two weeks to go to the primary, the mayoral, public advocate, and city council candidates are pounding the pavement, pressing the flesh, and spending cash at a frenetic rate.

Wherefore Art Thou Morgenthau?

Wayne Barrett senior editor at the Village Voice, and author,Rudy: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani (Basic Books, 2000) and City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York (Harpercollins, 1988)
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Juan Manuel Benitez reporter and host of NY1 Noticias' "Pura Politica"
- on primary ...

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The Big Empty

Jason Franklin meteorologist at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service Eastern Region headquarters in Bohemia, New York
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Ellis Henican columnist for Newsday,
- on Hurricane Katrina's rip across the Gulf coast

ยป The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

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Is Democracy Too Much To Hope For?

Reuel Marc Gerecht, director of the Middle East Initiative at the Project for the New American Century and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute,
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Peter Galbraith, former Director for Political, Constitutional and Electoral Affairs for the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (2000-2001), former ambassador ...

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Open Phones

listeners debate whether pro-war politicians have an obligation to urge their children to fight

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Vacation Time: A City Employee Responds

Remember last week's segment on vacation time, in which it was alleged that civil servants get more of it than the rest of us? [check out the segment]

Right after that, we got this note from an attorney who works for the city:

For those of you who think ...

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W shares a cosy campfire with the press

BL blogger is reading Personal History, Katharine Graham's illuminating memoir of life at the Washington Post. It seems incredible today, but during the 1964 Presidential race, Graham, then publisher of the Washington Post, hung out with LBJ at his ranch in Texas for several days. Before returning to Washington ...

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