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Interesting issues and alliances emerge as the New York Mayor attempts to skirt the city’s term-limit law and run for a third term:

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After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Sen. Hillary Clinton: Thank you very, very much. Well, this isn’t exactly the party I’d planned, but I sure like the company.

Stealing from Maud:

As you probably know, Governor Paterson issued a directive last week requiring New York agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.

Casualties of the global food crisis at home:

Joe Lieberman, of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party, writes of his political beau John McCain:

Any level of homelessness ought to be "alarming"...

(New York 1 News)

As you know, I’ve been whining about being sick. Yesterday will probably go into the Newscoma Book of World Records as being one of the top ten worse days of feeling like a hockey puck stuck in cow dookey.

This morning, I still feel rotten.

I have some meds but it appears I have a hybrid of a new and exciting illness that is a combination of bronchitis and the flu. Have you ever been on steroids and been monstrously nauseous at the same time?

How utterly exc

Greg Siskind is aware of the enormous amount of eggs Rudy Giuliani has placed in his Florida basket but wonders whether it will be John McCain who may truly punch through in that state: