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Ball and Sheriff Smith Join Together to Back DNA Database Expansion Bill
Southeast-Brewster Patch Announcements
Feb 02Editor's Note: What follows is user-generated news. If you would like to post your news to Patch, click here for detailed instructions. Bill Would Enact Governor’s Proposal To Include Misdemeanors Brewster, N.Y. – (1/31/12) –Senator Greg Ball (R, C – P... »
Will Rangel become Congressman for Co-op City, northeast Bronx?
Co-op City News
Feb 01(Photo by Seitu Oronde)By Michael HorowitzBRONX, NEW YORK, Feb. 2- New Congressional district lines would reportedly have Rep. Charles Rangel’s district encompassing Co-op City and other areas of the northeast Bronx that have sizable African-American p... »
Genting spells out its needs for convention center
Crain's New York Business
Jan 30Genting executives say that to build its proposed 3.8 million-square-foot convention center at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, the company would need to retain a bigger slice of the revenue that it currently splits with the State of New York. It would al... »
Queens Girl Becomes The New Voice Of ‘Dora The Explorer’
WCBSTV.com
Jan 30Child model Fatima Ptacek, 11, the daughter of a retired NYPD detective and an accountant from Ecuador, is fluent in both English and Spanish, just like Dora. »
Queens Girl Tapped to Voice "Dora"
NBC New York Local
Jan 29A Queens native has been tapped to voice the title character in the popular children's cartoon "Dora the Explorer." Fatima Ptacek, 11, will be heard as Dora when the cartoon premieres its seventh season on Nickelodeon Monday, Jan. 30. "Dora the Explor... »
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McLaughlin aims at McDonald, though not by name
Capitol Confidential
Jan 29COLONIE — Freshman Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin just delivered a fairly rousing speech here at the Conservative Party’s annual political action conference in which he blasted Republicans who sided with Democrats on issues like same-sex marriage as “wor... »
Everyone wants to get into the act
Queens Crap
Jan 29From Crains:The City University of New York is planning to build a hotel in Long Island City, Queens, to enhance its schools' hospitality programs.CUNY is looking for a hospitality consultant to evaluate a 91,000-square-foot lot it owns at 28-02 Skillm... »
Katz touts bill targeting voter fraud
Politics on the Hudson
Jan 27The following press release was issued by the office of Assemblyman Steve Katz, R-Yorktown, following a press conference Friday morning. With a major voter fraud case currently unfolding in the state, Assemblyman Steve Katz, R-Yorktown, was joined toda... »
Camilla Webster: Rita Cosby's New York
HuffPost New York Blogs
Jan 26To start the new year, we sat down with the lovely, hilarious and incredibly talented Rita Cosby for a "girl power" breakfast to learn about her passion for our great metropolis and her hometown. »
Weekend Events in Queens - January 27-29
About.com Queens
Jan 25Friday Tango 5 Sentidos Opening night - Thalia Theatre - Through March 18 Jackson Heights 3AM Through February 5 - Queens Theatre in the Park Tea for 3 LaGuardia Performing Arts Center Sunny Kim - Painter's Eye Flushing Town Hall Advance Man Episode On... »