THE STATE SENATE DEMOCRATIC TAKEOVER FOR DUMMIES

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Two months after Election Day, one failed leadership agreement and countless news stories detailing party infighting, State Senate Democrats’ life in the political wilderness finally came to an end on Jan. 8. Queens Democrat Malcolm Smith emerged as the Senate’s new majority leader, ending Republican control of that chamber for more than a generation
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PREDICTIONS

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As has become a West Side Spirit tradition at the cusp of a new year, we like to ask for predictions from various illuminating personalities populating our neighborhoods. There was no shortage of responses this December, with prophesies for 2009 covering everything from the much-debated replacement for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat to the new First
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FLIGHT OF THE CONFETTI

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Maggie Bates and Megan and Cathleen Childs from Fort Worth, Texas, revel in swirling confetti blown up from a subway grate. The display is part of the annual air worthiness test for confetti used during the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebrations. Inset: Some of the confetti released at midnight on Dec. 31 will feature
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NADLER WANTS SENATE SEAT

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Caroline? Carolyn? (Maloney, that is.) How about Jerry? Rep. Jerrold Nadler announced in an interview last week that he wants Secretary of State designate Hillary Clinton’s soon-to-be vacated Senate seat. During an interview on Democracy Now, Nadler told host Amy Goodman he is “certainly” interested in becoming New York’s junior senator and expressed this to
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NADLER, SCHUMER PRAISE OBAMA STIMULUS

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Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Jerrold Nadler are touting the stimulus package Congressional leaders and President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team is drafting as a boon to the state’s fiscal woes. Facing a historic budget gap in the state and MTA budgets, the federal legislators said they are pushing to have at least $20 billion of
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HOUSING ANNIVERSARY

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Last week, Council Member Gale Brewer celebrated the 60th anniversary of the city’s housing authority (NYCHA) at the historic Amsterdam Houses, at 205 W. 61st St. Brewer joined authority Chairman Ricardo Morales in hosting the proclamation commemorating the Amsterdam Houses, one of the first public housing developments in Manhattan
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