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NY City to fire teachers, cut capital spending
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday unveiled a $65.6 billion budget plan for fiscal year 2012 that calls for firing 4,666 teachers and reducing capital spending 10 percent over the next decade. Bloomberg blamed reductions in aid from the state of New York and…
9/11 mastermind should be tried in federal court, families tell Holder
Attorney General Eric Holder announced last year that alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) would be tried in civilian courts in New York City. After a wave of criticism, the White House apparently backed away from those plans. Now one group of families of the victims of 9/11 is…
Bloomberg: Congress members ‘can’t read,’ ‘don’t have passports,’ may start trade war
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has set his sights on what he — and many others — see as the provincial, insular nature of American politics, and he has unkind words for the country’s current crop of legislators. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal carried out during…
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