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The Darkest Day of the Year

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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

The beginning of winter finds New Yorkers walking and cycling long distances in the cold in order to get to work. With the transit strike entering its second day, business owners are counting their losses, and mayor Bloomberg is calling the strikers “irresponsible.”

Local 100 v. TWU International

Tom Robbins, staff writer for the Village Voice
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Brian O'Dwyer, senior partner in the law firm of O’Dwyer & Bernstien, a medium sized litigation firm in New York City, concentrating in Labor Law, Employee Benefit Funds, Personal Injury, Government Representation, Civil Rights, and Immigration Rights
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Open Phones

listeners share their tales of getting around New York

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Roger That!

Dr. Nick Freudenberg, professor of public health at Hunter College and incoming president of the Public Health Association of New York City
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Peter Noel, former investigative reporter for the Village Voice, currently writing a book on Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and talk show host of The Week ...

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Jarhead Loves Ancient Vases

Col. Mathew Bogdanos, assistant Manhattan DA, reserve marine colonel, led the task force to investigate the looting of antiquities during the invasion of Iraq, and author, Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine’s Passion for Ancient Civilizations and the Journey to Recover theWorld’s Greatest Stolen Treasures (Bloombsbury, 2005)
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No Sale

Kathryn Wylde, President and C.E.O. of the Partnership for New York City,

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Joanne Oplustil, executive director of The Church Avenue Merchants Block Association and the Church Avenue BID,

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Daniel Biederman, president of the 34th Street Partnership and executive director of the Bryant ...

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All About Evo

Christian Parenti, correspondent for The Nation covering Iraq and Latin America, a visiting fellow at CUNY's Center for Place, Culture and Politics and author, The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (New Press, 2004),
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Michael Shifter, vice president for policy at the Inter-American Dialogue,

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Strike Photos


The G train used to just be infrequent...


Stuck behind the mayor's entourage this morning at 7:25


Made it past Mike

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