Thursday, May 12, 2016

Oddly Timed 2008 NY Observer Article Pumps Up “Ambition” For The Books- A Pitch To Those Who Would Like to Be Trustees of Brooklyn Public Library, If Not Actually Trustworthy

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Found on the Massey Knakal a real estate firm website.  Text highlighted in yellow calls attention to the involvement of one of their brok...

Ethan Hawke Appointed as a Trustee of New York Public Library- At Eventful Meeting Iris Weinshall (Sen. Schumer’s Wife) Reports NYPL Is In Discussion To Sell “Upper Manhattan” Library

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Ethan Hawke, NYPL's newest trustee, at his first trustees meeting.  NYPL president Marx seated on right. It was a change of pace, wi...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Councilman Brad Lander Announces Participatory Budgeting 2.0- The Next Phase of Participatory Budgeting- “With Meta-Participatory Budgeting We Demonstrate Democracy Without Training Wheels”

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Democracy without training wheels Councilman Brad Lander, the city’s most joyously fervent exponent of Participatory Budgeting, took the...
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Sunday, February 21, 2016

NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Is Taking Political Donations From Those He Could or Should Be Investigating- Despite a (Playboy) Model Being Involved This Is NOT A Model That Serves The Public Well

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WNYC and News News 4 New York have partnered to report on Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office taking contributions from the potent...
Friday, January 29, 2016

So You Are Looking To Make Sense of The World And Want To Get That Same Book From The Library “To Change Your Life” That Aaron Swartz Did? Expect The Sweet Smell Of Success To Elude You.

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Aaron Swartz said a book from the library changed his life- Picture of Aaron Swartz from an interview shortly before his suicide- "...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Seasonal Reflection: Mayor de Blasio, His Heart Squeezed Grinch-Small, Starts Gifting Stolen Libraries To Developers For The Holidays

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Mayor de Blasio becomes the Grinch arriving at Christmas to steal and shrink the public's libraries while disguised not so very credib...
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