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Hunts Point Express: BP Should Not Add Rapper Fat Joe to Bronx Walk of Fame
Bernard Stein, editor of the Hunts Point Express, has published an editorial taking Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. to task for planning to induct the Bronx-born rapper Fat Joe into the borough Walk...
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‘Best’ Living Wage Law Is in San Jose
The long debated and delayed living wage legislation, emanating from an epic land use battle at the Kingsbridge Armory, is coming to a vote today. A press release drafted by the retail workers union...
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Adolfo the Republican?
While running for Bronx borough president in 2001, Adolfo Carrion, Jr. joined a protest against the U.S. Navy bombing of Vieques Puerto Rico and landed in Brooklyn federal prison. It wasn’t a reliable...
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Why Diaz Will Enshrine Fat Joe on Walk of Fame
Patrice O’Shaugnessy seems to have figured out why Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. will be honoring rapper Fat Joe — he with the misogynist and violent lyrics — on the borough’s Walk of Fame...
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5.28.14 — Bronx News that Matters
Harry Bubbins, head of the Friends of Brook Park, lays out his position on why the city’s financial support of FreshDirect taking over a chunk of the south Bronx’s waterfront has gotta go.. He calls on...
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5.30.14 — Bronx News that Matters
Busy day, but here are a few articles that quickly got my attention this morning: Bronx Times editor Bob Kappstatter reports on why the borough president is not participating in The Bronx’s Puerto...
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UPDATE: Deal Made for Barnes & Noble to Remain 2 More Years in Bay Plaza
UPDATE: As I predicted, bookstore won’t shut down; 2-year deal is made. Go to welcome2thebronx.com for more info. Headline a bit of a prediction, but quite likely nonetheless. Barnes & Noble in...
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Not as Necessary to Senate Republicans After Election Night, but Bronx Dem...
What direction is Jeff Klein headed? On a happier day in Albany last spring, Klein (center) and fellow Bronx Democratic politicians Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz,...
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In Fundraiser, Bronx Pol Seeks Big Bucks for Protection or Promotion, Daily...
Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda (bottom right), gathered in 2014 with a crew of Bronx elected officials in Albany for an event organized by Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj (top left) . Photo by Jordan Moss...
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