Sarah Kate Kramer

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Snake Wrangler Details the Art of Capturing a Cobra

Thursday, March 31, 2011

The same day the Bronx Zoo cobra was captured after it vanished for nearly a week, professional reptile wrangler Shaun Heflick weighed in and said New Yorkers never had much to worry about.

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Stiglitz on American Inequality: 'Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%'

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Most Americans are worse off than they were ten years ago, a dozen years ago, so it's actually trickle up economics. All the gains in our economic growth have gone to those at the top...

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Cuomo's Medicaid Medicine Going Down Pretty Well

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Folks in healthcare in New York recognized also that outside of New York there is also a conservative extreme in American politics that really wants to dismantle our governmental  pro...

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Niche Market | Rain or Shine Umbrellas

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

New York is a city of specialists from foodies to academics, laborers to shopkeepers. Every Wednesday, Niche Market will take a peek inside a different specialty store and showcase t...

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Beinart Analysis: Obama's Libya Speech

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

There will always be terrible, terrible things that happen in the world and it is way beyond America's capacity to stop all of them, particularly in a military sense. So the real worl...

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Ethnic Shifting Could Mean Ethnic Redistricting

Thursday, March 24, 2011

The census often confirms what we already know - and it also affects the redistricting process for Congressional and state legislative districts.

New York City's Asian population increased 32 percent and now makes up about 13 percent of the city's population, while the Hispanic population grew by 8.1 percent and now makes up about 29 percent of the city's population. 

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Redistricting: What Is the Deal in New York?

Thursday, March 24, 2011

The equation is simple: 19,421,055 population divided by 27 districts = 348,927.963 people in each district, but where to place those districts on the map is the fun part of redistricting.

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Niche Market | Rogue Magic and FunShop

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

PHOTOS. New York is a city of specialists from foodies to academics, laborers to shopkeepers. Every Wednesday, Niche Market will take a peek inside a different specialty store and sh...

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Libya No-Fly Zone Compared To Bosnia

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

WNYC
You've got these various governments all theoretically endorsing this operation but there's no kind of umbrella command structure, there's no overall organization or group or counci...

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Jeffries and Flanagan on Albany's Budget Battle

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

WNYC
If you look at the folks who are in that category, and most of us would certainly like to be in that category, they pay a whopping disproportionate percentage of the taxes right n...

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More NJ Finger Pointing About High Taxes

Thursday, March 17, 2011

WNYC

The average tax bill for property owners in New Jersey went up $7,576 - or 4.1 percent - in 2010, despite Gov. Chris Christie promise to lower local taxes. 

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Bloomberg's Pension End-Around

Thursday, March 17, 2011

WNYC
As anyone with a 401(k) knows, how much money you're going to have to put into your retirement and how much money you're going to have when you retire is so dependent on your rate of ...

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Democrats and the Budget Extension

Thursday, March 17, 2011

If it takes a shutdown of the government for people to come to their senses, or as President Obama says, for the adults to get into the room, then perhaps that's what it will take. —...

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Niche Market | Casey Rubber Stamps

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

PHOTOS. New York is a city of specialists from foodies to academics, laborers to shopkeepers. Every Wednesday, Niche Market will take a peek inside a different specialty store and sh...

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Former GE VP: Japan Comparable to Three Mile Island

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

We're talking of numbers on the order of what you would receive getting a cat scan or getting other diagnostic x-rays done over the course of your lifetime, so you have those done wit...

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Yes or No No-Fly

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

I don't think the U.S. should be intervening when asked by the Arab League, I mean we've never really asked the Arab League for permission to do anything else in the region. —Micah Z...

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Former GE VP: Japan Comparable to Three Mile Island

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

"We're talking of numbers on the order of what you would receive getting a cat scan or getting other diagnostic x-rays done over the course of your lifetime, so you have those done wi...

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What About That '$3 Billion Surplus' in NYC?

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

While you’re watched Letterman, Saturday Night Live, CNN, Iron Chef, Jeopardy! and many more shows this past week, you might've seen an ad from the United Federation of Teachers slamming Mayor Bloomberg for threatening to lay off more than 4,600 teachers while the city’s got a three billion dollar surplus, which you can see in the February 2011 Financial Plan.

But is Mayor Bloomberg really like Scrooge Mcduck swimming through the city’s mounds of gold coins?

To slice through the rhetoric, we picked the brain of Ronnie Lowenstein, director of the City’s nonpartisan, publicly funded Independent Budget Office.

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First Principles: What is the Primary Role of Government?

Thursday, March 10, 2011

WNYC
Somebody getting a minimum wage, or somebody getting Medicare, or somebody getting stuff from the government, whatever that happens to be, comes at somebody else's expense. Somebo...

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Does Candidacy Trump The Apprentice?

Thursday, March 10, 2011

WNYC

As billionaire Donald Trump, the controversial real-estate magnate and contentious King of NBC's The Apprentice, plays coy about his candidacy for President, the man is on the verge of casting himself in another reality TV universe--the one of political infomercials and punditry. But would his entrance onto this reality show mean that he'd have to cancel his prior contract with The Apprentice?

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