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Bloomberg officially cancels NYC marathon after residents object
The New York City Marathon scheduled for this Sunday has been officially cancelled, though earlier this week Mayor Bloomberg claimed Hurricane Sandy would not thwart the annual race, reported CNN. “We cannot allow a controversy over an athletic event — even one as meaningful as this — to distract attention…
NYC Mayor shuts down ‘Pleasure Carts’ that distributed free vibrators
An unidentified New York City official shut down a condom and sex toy company’s giveaway on Wednesday that planned to distribute 10,000 free vibrators in Manhattan, according to the New York Post. Trojan distributed more than 400 vibrators in two hours from two “Pleasure carts” before a city official who…
NYC Mayor Bloomberg unveils new for-profit mass surveillance system
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has unveiled a new crime-fighting system developed with Microsoft — and revealed that the city will take a cut of the profits if it is sold to other administrations. The innovation, which bears a passing resemblance to the futuristic hologram data screens used by Tom…
You are the target of stop-and-frisk, not some mythical ‘other person’
In 2011, the New York Police Department stopped and frisked 700,000 people in a city of 8.2 million — that’s about 8.6 percent of the population, if you’re a numbers person — and 87 percent of those people who were stopped were African-American or Latino. About 45 percent of New…
Mayor Bloomberg plans to outlaw super-sized sodas
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said he plans to outlaw super-sized sugary drinks, in a ban cementing his reputation as one of America’s hardest-driving policy makers on public health. Bloomberg, who already has gone to war on smokers and transfat, will allow the sale of cups up to 16…
Mayor Bloomberg calls the NYPD ‘my own army’
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg said the New York Police Department was like his own personal military force during a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to PolitickerNY. “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world,” he said.…
Update on Occupy Wall St. library situation
Updated: The Gothamist has a timeline that shows exactly how long the books went missing, which certainly added to suspicions that they had been maliciously destroyed. Whoops! Mayor Bloomberg's office has come to the realization that tearing down and carting off a 5,000 book library particularly looks bad in a…
Corrupt capitalism trumps First Amendment
Contrary to the claims of conservatives, our Constitution does not guarantee the right to unfettered, utterly corrupt capitalism to allow the top 1% of our society to suck up all the wealth created by the working people of this country, leaving the rest of us to live paycheck to paycheck,…
WATCH LIVE: Mayor Bloomberg’s press conference on ‘Occupy Wall Street’ crackdown
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Did Bloomberg overreact?
That's a narrative being formed online already, no doubt shaped by the fact that the people who can get online still have electricity, unlike many in the city. Dear fools: You aren't everyone. You may be, like myself, high and dry and online, but in some parts of the city…
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