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As we've noted, some New York politicians have come out against suspending local term limits, an idea Mayor Bloomberg has floated. Maybe they're speaking from principle, or maybe they just don't want to get to get on the wrong side of a discontented electorate [...]
And 100 years ago yesterday, a boy named Lyndon Baines Johnson was born in Texas, who would do more than any president since Lincoln to break down the barriers facing minorities in America.
What is going to happen today is a culmination of so much [...]
The Democratic Party nominated Barack Obama as its 2008 presidential candidate, making him the first African-American presidential nominee in a major political party.
He won the nomination in an emotional moment during the roll call: After New Mexico yielded its place to Illinois during the alphabetical-by-state roll call, Illinois [...]
Almost 30% of Buffalonians live in poverty…the figure is sad…what is even more sad is that there are only two other cities with a population over 250K with a worse rate.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the numbers mirror the overall decline of other aspects of [...]
From the Vanity Fair/Google Party email we just received.
Thank you for your interest in the Vanity Fair / Google Party.We have reached full capacity for this event and are unable to accommodate additional guests.
If you have NOT received a Confirmation email--separate from the automated RSVP response-- and [...]
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media
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Bill Clinton when he said (paraphrased):
[...]“People are more impressed by our power of example than by our example of power”
FishbowlDC is twittering up a storm. He's not the only one, a number of media folk here at the convention have told us they are covering it via twitter. Want to get a sense of what to world of twitter journalism might look [...]
It was moving south towards the [...]
The latest installment of WeinerTV -- future Mayor Tony!'s groundbreaking series of surrealist videos from the Democratic Convention in Denver, which we introduced yesterday -- seems to be some kind of absurdist comment on politics itself. It shows Hillary Clinton, viewed from far off [...]
Earlier this week, I got the following email:
From: Fighting Change
Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:02 PM
Subject: Help Me - Powers Avoids Criticism
To: matt@thebuffalobean.comDear Buffalo Bean,
I am writing you this e-mail because you may be the only one who will print this. I had an anonymous YouTube [...]
10:57: The crowd is going nuts for Hillary
10:55: Obama enters!
10:53: A good, solid speech by Biden. His main job was to give McCain a dressing down on foreign policy, which he did.
10:50: Obama was right to [...]
[...]Barack Obama, who, according the mainstream media is practically the personification of “change,” has selected one of the longest-serving and status quo senators to be his running mate: U.S. Senator Joseph Biden. Read the full article at JBS.org.
Governor Deval Patrick (D-MA) liveblogging.
Governor Christine Gregoire (D-WA), addressing the hippies bloggers.
Senator Jon Tester, Democrat of Montana.
And here's our very own Deni Frand.
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CNN may equal politics, but the CNN Grill equals heaven. FBNY is currently inside the Grill drinking a chocolate milkshake with no plans to move, maybe ever. CNN has done a very good job of branding the convention space and the Grill (in our opinion) is the [...]
Check out what I believe City News nice evenly balanced article on the goings on in the NY-26th as we approach primary day.
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