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In 2004, New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice published a report on the performance — or should we say the underperformance — of the New York State Legislature. The report’s first …
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11/12/10
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Back in early August, I began to consider writing a series of columns on reforming New York’s dysfunctional state government. Friends and neighbors were not aware of my interest in this subject; others suggested that no amount of disclosure and transparency could possibly make a difference.
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Hal Peterson
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11/10/10
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For the first 30 minutes of David Hirson’s La Bete, Valere (Mark Rylance) delivers an hysterical monologue in rhymed couplets. Although not alone, Rylance, playing a braggart, boorish …
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11/5/10
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Rage is all the rage this political season, but fear seems more apt — their rage, my fear.
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Randi Kreiss
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10/28/10
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The Egyptian pharaohs, who ruled the Nile River Valley from 3150 B.C. to 30 B.C., favored what we call Keynesian macroeconomic theory. That is, they liked big-government projects — obelisks, temples, pyramids.
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Scott Brinton
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10/28/10
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Last week, the state inspector general issued a scathing 308-page report on why the process of selecting a new operator of a casino at Aqueduct Racetrack was hopelessly flawed and wrought with influence peddling and corruption.
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Al D'Amato
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10/28/10
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As I’ve mentioned in my four prior columns, our state authorities and agencies are not sufficiently accountable to the public. In the past decade alone there have been multiple reports by the state Comptroller’s office, governors’ commissions and public sector watchdog groups about this. Efforts to legislate greater accountability by officials who have focused their attention on authorities have met with limited success.
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Hal Peterson
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10/27/10
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We endorse State Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos for another term in the Senate.
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10/27/10
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The recent attack of a 14-year-old student on a Nassau BOCES school bus reminds us that anti-gay hate and bullying is as big a problem locally as it is across the country.
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Andy Peters
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10/21/10
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The story should have ended when the last miner stepped from the Phoenix escape capsule back into the world. It was a perfect moment, and how many of those do we get? It was a happy ending, also in short supply.
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Randi Kreiss
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10/21/10
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