Common Folk Using Common Sense

From Capital News 9:

Albany [New York] Common Council members say they’ll figure out a plan to make sure non-unionized city employees get raises. Mayor Jerry Jennings has proposed eliminating raises and several other cuts in his 2009 budget proposal which calls for less spending with a property tax increase of nearly five percent.
Councilman Glen Casey [...]

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New York Mayor Bloomberg hates guns so much he gets cross-eyed stupid. From the Times Union:

Mayor Bloomberg has for years been attempting to bring the Olympic Summer Games to New York City but has always been aced out by a more firearm friendly venue like … Beijing. We have to continually remind Mayor Bloomberg [...]

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From the New York Post:

With his poll numbers collapsing, Gov. Spitzer pulled the plug today on his controversial plan to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses.
“New York state can not handle [the immigration issue] on our own,” Spitzer said. “I am withdrawing my proposal.”
The embattled governor made the announcement after he met with [...]

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From USAToday:

The Senate voted Thursday to kill a $1 million grant for a museum on the site of the 1969 Woodstock concert, a rare rebuke of a legislative pet project and a blow to the presidential candidate who backed it, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Clinton and her New York colleague, Sen. Charles Schumer, had the funding [...]

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0759 EDT - American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767, departs Logan Airport with 81 passengers and 11 crew.
0814 EDT - United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767, departs Logan Airport with 56 passengers and 9 crew.
0820 EDT - American Airlines Flight 77 departs Dulles Airport.
0842 EDT - United [...]

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From CBS News:

Russell Defreitas, a U.S. citizen native to Guyana and retired airport employee was the mastermind behind a plot to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through populous residential neighborhoods, authorities said Saturday.
Defreitas developed his hatred [...]

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