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• The Daily Report

  New Yorkers Found to be Breathing American Air, Mayor Gasps

  Nick Lalla | Mon, Nov 10th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Chicago | Tags: new york, michael bloomberg, gavin newsom, nick lalla, philadelphia office of sustainability, richard m. daley, environmental defense fund, environmental pollution control act, greening, preemtion, mayors | 1

  On the last day of October a district court found that New York City would have to put a hold on its plan to replace its city’s taxi cabs with hybrid cars. Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired back by invoking the threat that the court’s ruling would prevent “all cities” from taking their environment and health into their own hands. I talked with some experts to see how real the threat was.

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• Headlines

  SLUTS, Sexy Immigration, Newsom’s Playhouse, MORE…

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Jan 18th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, hayley richardson, mayor nutter, gavin newsom, slut, politics of american apparel | 0

  This Slut’s For You

  “Steve Scher of KUOW-FM and I recently walked from Seattle’s University District to Hooter’s and jumped the SLUT. It was a nice little ride, my first. Now that the hoopla’s died down, it was a chance to get a sense of how Seattle’s streetcar of dreams is doing trundling along the streets of Allentown.”

  As an aside, just look at the lengths to which the green movement has gone in Seattle.
  
  Nutter’s and Bolts

  Of the many pledges Mayor Nutter made during his…

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• The Daily Report

  How to speak like San Francisco’s mayor: Drive the vague point home. Repeatedly.

  Matt Stroud | Tue, Oct 16th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | City: San Francisco | Tags: san francisco, gavin newsom, center for court innovation, midtown community courts | 0

  For our upcoming print edition (December 4th release), we’re constructing a synopsis of the debate over San Francisco’s proposed Collaborative Community Justice Center (CCJC). But gems like the one you’re about to read don’t fit into print, so we’ll share them on the web. The following block of text is a direct quote from Mayor Newsom when asked a fairly harmless background question. What did I expect, you ask? Not this:

  TNAC: Can you tel me a little about your goals with the CCJC? It’s…

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