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Voting for More than Just the Mayor

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Monday, November 07, 2005

As election day nears, voters will decide more than just who the next mayor will be. One question on the ballot is whether to let the state borrow $2.9 billion for transportation projects. What are the arguments for and against and what will it mean for the subway? Also: What's happening at the Summit of the Americas

The Ballot of the Subway

Diana Fortuna, president of the Citizens Budget Commission
and
Richard Brodsky, New York assemblyman (D-86th District-Westchester County)
- debate the ballot questions in this week's election

» Citizens Budget Commission
» Richard Brodsky (NYS Assembly)
»

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W, Hugo, and Lula

Alvaro Vargas Llosa, journalist and senior fellow at The Independent Institute, and author, Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux 2005),
and
Carlos Pio, professor of politics at the University of Brasilia
and
Mario Murillo, assistant ...

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Page One

Clarence Page, columnist for the Chicago Tribune
- on Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi and Scooter Libby

» Clarence Page (Chicago Tribune)

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Open Phones

on Doug Forester and the Jon Corzine-Joanne Corzine feud

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2nd Week: you begin to like it

Busy day here in BL Show producer-land (Bill Cunningham and Jen Bluestein aren't the only ones working hard before the election), but we have to take a moment to share these hilarious instructions from the ergonomic optical mouse that recently took up residence in our office.

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