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Albany, NY – A proposed new tax on sugary drinks appears unlikely to pass the state Senate, despite passionate campaigning by New York Gov. David Paterson and his health commissioner.
Supporters have pushed the tax as a way to combat obesity while bolstering funding for state health programs. But a number of Democratic senators are opposed, [...]

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Albany, NY – Soda Tax Going Down the Drain

New York City – Thousands of people ripped off by New York City taxi drivers who illegally overcharged them could get some money back.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says his administration is looking into ways to reimburse cheated passengers.
The city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission said last week it had discovered a widespread scam where drivers routinely charged [...]

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New York City – Ripped Off By Overcharged Taxi Fare? Bloomberg Says You Might Get A Refund

New York – The calls for Gov. David Paterson’s immediate resignation may have ceased for the moment, but former Mayor Ed Koch nevertheless continues to believe it’s just a matter of time before the embattled governor throws in the towel, the DN’s Glenn Blain reports.
“I believe what’s impeding the resignation is [...]

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New York – Ed Koch: ‘No Question’ That Gov. Paterson Will Resign

Detroit, MI – City officials in Detroit say workers at three city buildings will soon have to monitor their scents or face possible warnings.
The Detroit News said Sunday that placards will be put up in the three Detroit buildings detailing the new guidelines on employees’ use of such scented items as cologne or perfume.
The [...]

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Detroit, MI – No Perfume, Deodorant for City Employees

Moscow – Millions of Georgians wrongly thought their country was being invaded after a spoof prime time news broadcast showed Russian tanks heading towards the capital Tbilisi and said the president, Mikheil Saakashvili, had been killed.
The spoof was broadcast on Imedi, one of Georgia’s biggest TV channels, and most viewers missed a brief announcement [...]

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Moscow – Russia Invasion Spoof Report Spreads Panic in Georgia

Fort Lauderdale, FL – Ponzi schemer Scott W. Rothstein’s former chabad, the Chabad of Downtown Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, is invoking “clergy privilege” in bankruptcy investigations.
This particular chabad, run by Rabbi Schneur Kaplan, was once so connected to Rothstein that its new building on Broward Boulevard carried Rothstein’s name on the outside.
Attorneys for Rothstein’s former [...]

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Fort Lauderdale, FL – Rothstein Chabad Invokes Clergy Privilege

Washington – The Federal Aviation Administration has issued an emergency airworthiness directive demanding that airlines check a mechanism that controls tail flaps on about 600 Boeing 737s.
The directive was issued Friday and concerns flaps on the horizontal tails of the jets. On March 2, a Ryanair 737-800 en route from the Netherlands to Madrid, Spain, [...]

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Washington – FAA Directs Airlines to Check Tail Flap of 737s

Cairo, Egypt – The government has canceled the inauguration of a restored synagogue citing the Israeli oppression of Muslims in the territories as well as excesses by Jews during an earlier ceremony at the synagogue.
Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities restored the ruined Ben Maimon synagogue in Cairo’s ancient Jewish quarter and was set to unveil [...]

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Cairo, Egypt – Government Cancels Unveiling of Maimon Synagogue

New York, NY – The city is on pace to rake in $687 million from nearly 10 million parking tickets this year, according to figures revealed at a City Council hearing.
“That’s a 12 percent jump over the $611 million the city made from parking fines in 2009, the NYPD’s top budget expert said.”
As of this [...]

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New York, NY – City Set to Make $687M in Parking Tickets This Year

New York – He was Israel’s most valuable spy inside Hamas – and certainly the most unlikely.
For more than a decade, Mosab Hassan Yousef disrupted dozens of suicide bombings and assassination attempts by the militant group, saving hundreds of lives.
Infiltrating the upper echelons of Hamas came relatively easy for Yousef: He is the son of [...]

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New York – Radio Show: Israeli Spy Son of Hamas Founder To Disscus How He Saved Rabbi Yosef From Terror Plot