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Mattress Seller Causes Taxpayer Nightmares
Region: New York
Mattress Seller Causes Taxpayer Nightmares by Richard A. Cooper "Sleepy’s, a family-owned mattress seller that began in Brooklyn in 1931 and later moved to Long Island, has been awarded a gra... more
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ACORN Affiliate Given Taxpayer Funds By Candidates It Supported
Region: New York
ACORN, the leftwing activist group with Obama ties, has indirectly received New York State and New York City taxpayer funds through a charity it controls according to an article in City Hall News, http://www.cityhallnews.c... more
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If Atlantic Yards Is Built, I Pledge To...
Region: New York
What is Atlantic Yards? Atlantic Yards is a combination sports arena for the NBA professional team the Nets, commercial and residential space. This is in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (In New Yor... more
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Indicted Legislator's Attempt To Block Primary Opponent Fails
Region: New YorkNassau County, New York county legislator Roger Corbin (Democrat-Westbury) will face a primary opponent in September as his effort failed to challenge the petition signatures of North Hempstead Town Councilman ... more
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Stop The Pork Lawsuit Butchered In Supreme Court
Region: New York
The Stop The Pork Lawsuit http://groundreport.com/articles.php?id=2875068 by a group of New York taxpayers, including myself ,to end corporate welfare and its funding of eminent domain abuse suffered a se... more
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President Clinton's Contribution From Corporate Welfare Recipient Favored By Senator Clinton
Region: New York
The New York Times reported that former President Clinton's foundation received a $100,000 contribution from Syracuse, New York real estate developer Robert J. Congel ("A Donor's Gift Soon Followed Clinton's Help" by Charl... more
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Stop The Pork Lawsuit Combats Corporate Welfare & Eminent Domain Abuse
Region: New York
Many Americans were outraged by the dramatic bailouts in the headlines of late, but fewer seem outraged by the constant flow of corporate welfare at the federal, state and local levels. Some New Yorkers have filed su... more
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US Housing Agency Chief Departs, Agency Should Follow Suit
Region: New York
US Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Cabinet Secretary Alphonso Jackson has resigned under the cloud of allegations that he steered lucrative contracts to friends. I am reminded in the scene from Casablanca, whe... more
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Urban Renewal Schemes Seeking Planning Consultant Accomplices
Region: New YorkScanning the legal notice advertising in the Long Island, New York daily Newsday of February 21, 2008 I ran across one entitled "Request For Proposal Blight Study and Urban Renewal Plan City of Long Beach, New York."&... more
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They Call It Developing Downtown On Long Island
Region: New YorkI call it legalized theft. The latest round of eminent domain abuse in America is close to home on Long Island in Riverhead, New York. As reported in Newsday, http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-licond... more
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