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The City Politic Archive

October 21, 2002
It's a Mad, Mad World

If there's an overall -- and underreported -- theme to the coming midterm election, it is "Get mad and get even." Think Democrats have forgotten Florida? Think again.

October 27, 2003
Zero for Heroes

Many of the people who spent months in the pit at ground zero have respiratory ailments. And no health insurance. And no aid from the government. Why?

May 3, 2004
Will Bill?

Bill Thompson is mild-mannered, relatively unknown, and not sure he wants to run. So how is it that the city comptroller may be the next mayor?

April 24, 2000
On the Right Track

Anticipating the arrival of its new high-speed trains, Amtrak deftly transforms dreary Penn Station with sleek escalators and other touches.

August 11, 2003
Mark My Words

A charge of racism probably cost Mark Green the mayoralty. As he prepares to reenter public life, Green reflects on the attacks that persist even now.

November 10, 2003
Money Tries to Talk

Politicians come to Manhattan when it’s time to raise money, then don’t give the city its due. Bloomberg’s new Fifth Avenue rallying cry: No justice, no cash.

June 14, 1999
Centrist Casting

Rudy Giuliani isn't the only sort-of-moderate Republican looking to rent a Senate seat; meet Suffolk County congressman Rick Lazio, preaching the unlikely gospel of inclusion.

May 16, 2005
The Stadium Catbird Seat

In the battle for the West Side stadium, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver holds all the cards. He never knew he had so many friends.

March 18, 2002
Talking Trash

No one wants to grapple with the city's garbage crisis, least of all the mayor, who seems willing to sacrifice schools and libraries rather than ruffle feathers in Staten Island.

October 5, 1998
The Best Man?

New York's Senate race has left national gay leaders in a painful bind: Will they reward the Senate's most pro-gay Republican or back his more reliable Democratic rival?

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