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Mike in the News
| | Editorial: A Monument to Tolerance At Ground Zero
NY Times
The New York Times writes: Mayor Bloomberg noted in his speech that in the United States and in "the freest city in the world," the owners of the building have the right to use their property as a house of worship. "The government has no right whatsoever to deny that right," he said. We agreed with his assessment that the lawsuits being threatened against the mosque should be easily thrown out.
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| | My Commitment to Giving
GivingPledge.org
The reality of great wealth is that you can't spend it and you can’t take it with you. For decades, I've been committed to giving away the vast majority of my wealth to causes that I'm passionate about - and that my children are passionate about.
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| | Op-Ed: 11 Years After Columbine, It's Time for Congress to Act
HuffingtonPost
11 years after Columbine, the Gun Show Loophole in federal law remains wide open. So, today, the coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns that I co-chair with Mayor Tom Menino of Boston, now more than 500 mayors strong, is proud to join the Columbine and Virginia Tech families' effort by releasing new television ads which are running both nationally and in key states, calling on Congress to finally close the Gun Show Loophole.
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| | Editorial: Mayor Bloomberg’s Island
NY Times
Unnable to carry its share of the costs, the New York State government has ceded responsibility for revitalizing Governors Island to New York City — which is exactly where the responsibility belongs.
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| | At Bloomberg LP, Modest Strategy to Rule the World
NY Times
Bloomberg now has 142 journalists in Washington, 196 in Tokyo and 30 in Paris. It recently opened bureaus in Nigeria, Ghana and Cyprus. It has won numerous journalism awards and has offered some of the shrewdest coverage of the financial crisis over the last couple of years.
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| | NY Daily News Endorses Bloomberg for Mayor 2009
NY Daily News
If you believe that preserving the quality of life, maintaining scandal-free government and pulling the city through tough economic times are more important than expressing anger, get to your polling place and vote for Bloomberg.
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| | NY Post Endorses Bloomberg for Mayor 2009
NY Post
Mike Bloomberg has been a competent -- sometimes brilliant -- steward of a successful city that not so long ago was deemed ungovernable.
He has earned four more years.
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| | New York Times Endorses Bloomberg for Mayor 2009
NY Times
The real test of any mayor is how well the city works. In his eight years in office, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has managed to make the unpredictable city of New York work astonishingly well.
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| | Mike Bloomberg Owns This Town
New York Magazine
With shrewdness and luck, an imperious idea of democracy, and plenty of money, the mayor has made himself the only political player in New York who really matters.
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| | Op-Ed: Bloomberg, Rivera: Healthcare Reform Is Too Important to Fail
HuffingtonPost.com
We need everyone's participation and everyone's good ideas if we are to reform the fragmented system we have today. In our respective roles as Mayor and leader of the nation's largest union of nurses, doctors and healthcare workers, we have worked tirelessly to improve the health care of our city residents and fellow New Yorkers.
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| | Op-Ed: No More Excuses at Ground Zero
Wall Street Journal
Progress on the redevelopment of the World Trade Center has been frustratingly slow, owing in large part to a multilayered governance structure that has undermined accountability from the get-go. The city does not own or control the site, but we do control the streets around it. For those who widen their gaze, the rebirth of Lower Manhattan is impossible to miss.
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| | The Revolutionary
Newsweek
Newsweek Magazine profiles Mayor Bloomberg's impact on New York City, and the nation.
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| | Bloomberg: The CEO Mayor
Business Week
How New York's Mike Bloomberg is creating a new model for public service that places pragmatism before politics
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| | Op-Ed: Bloomberg, Jeb Bush: How to Help Our Students
Washington Post
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 sent an enormously important message to politicians and educators across America: Stop making excuses for low student achievement and start holding your schools accountable for results.
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| | Op-Ed: On Immigration, It's Time to Get Real
Wall Street Journal
In every decade there is a critical domestic issue that shapes our political life for decades to come. In the 1960s, it was civil rights; in the 1980s, crime and drugs; and in the 1990s, welfare dependency. Today, it is immigration.
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