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With mayoral election

artappraiser — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 05:25:55 +0000

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With mayoral election campaigns upon us, it's time to remind my fellow citizens of NYC why we usually elect a non-Dem machine politician as mayor after trying it out just one more time and then dejas vus allover again. WILL NO ONE EVER RID US OF THIS DAMN CROOKED NYC Democratic party machine? Thank god for our tough Feds at SDNY. This is damn egregious:

CEO of NYC non-profit charged in bribery and kickbacks scheme involving publicly funded housing and social serviceshttps://t.co/suvE4Ea1ne @NYC_DOI
— US Attorney SDNY (@SDNYnews) March 24, 2021

ok now that he's done with

artappraiser — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 05:11:21 +0000

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ok now that he's done with interim of being partly responsible for the deaths of many New Yorkers and devastation of its economy, I come back to this thread. Because we have a situation sort of back to status quo where taxpayers pay a lot of money for workers who don't produce anything anyone in power uses:

De Blasio created a contact tracing advisory board then largely ignored its advice https://t.co/xuAvMumzu6 pic.twitter.com/XUouUE1EM5
— Alexander Nazaryan (@alexnazaryan) July 18, 2020

NEW: The Second Avenue Subway

artappraiser — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:27:30 +0000

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NEW: The Second Avenue Subway opened in 2017, but just three of its 32 escalators met the @MTA performance mark during the line’s first 15 months, says a @mtaoig report obtained by @THECITYNY https://t.co/5MwxMVL3GI
— THE CITY (@THECITYNY) July 15, 2019

Because something like this

artappraiser — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 21:09:43 +0000

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Because something like this is considered a feature and not a bug:

On the 6 train tonight, a couple takes a table out and starts a ping pong game....#INYC pic.twitter.com/WqztzK9xSx
— Mary Karr, Author (@marykarrlit) June 29, 2019

Police haven't released the

artappraiser — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 01:12:57 +0000

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Police haven't released the tow truck of a Staten Island repo man who was arrested when he tried to repossess a detective's car. Repo man says it's another example of cops abusing their power. https://t.co/bdM8C5PZ0a by @amandafarinacci @ny1
— Joel Siegel (@joelmsiegel) June 12, 2019

The crooked Dem machine

artappraiser — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 06:35:30 +0000

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The crooked Dem machine endures in the judicial system:

Brooklyn lawyers deciding Democratic ballot line for judicial seats get guardian, referee jobs from judges they review, records show

By Michael Gartland @ NYDailyNews.com, June 10

Brooklyn lawyers who decide who can get the crucial Democratic ballot line to run for prized judicial seats are getting jobs as legal guardians and referees from the very judges they’re charged with reviewing — and their law firms are appearing before those same judges in active cases.

Of the 25 attorneys listed as serving on the Brooklyn Democratic Party’s judicial screening panel in 2019, at least five have been given jobs as court-appointed lawyers by the judges they’re tasked with reviewing, the Daily News has learned.

Judicial screening panel members Helene Blank, Mark Longo, Betty Lugo, Melissa Bonaldes and Steven Finkelstein all took work in the last year from judges they’ve reviewed or could review in the future, an analysis of state court records shows.

Alex Camarda, a senior policy analyst at the good-government group Reinvent Albany, described that dynamic as problematic [....]

Except here no matter which

artappraiser — Fri, 31 May 2019 01:47:47 +0000

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Except here, no matter which the powers that be choose to tend to, mass transit or roads, a lot of the money always gets grifted away and the project takes eons and causes much misery to the users (and the slow walk of the project is usually part of the grift, all sides collect money for as long as possible while as little as possible gets done).

It's a simple fact that as

ocean-kat — Thu, 30 May 2019 18:43:09 +0000

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It's a simple fact that as long as we continue repairing roads and constructing new ones we'll never have good quality mass transportation. That's why I belong to a group protesting repairing or constructing roads. We're more powerful than most suspect. I doubt that there's any road construction project in the US without at least one of our protest signs. Here's a typical example of one of our protest signs.

My first print feature for

artappraiser — Thu, 30 May 2019 18:13:06 +0000

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My first print feature for @nymag is out today, and it's a look at why it's so shocking expensive to build transit infrastructure in New York, and what we could have if we paid normal prices. https://t.co/vacpOMXBx0
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) May 30, 2019

.@NYCSchools’ system for

artappraiser — Tue, 28 May 2019 22:50:30 +0000

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.@NYCSchools’ system for handling complaints by parents of special education students is leaving many kids w/o required services for months, a state-commissioned report found. Here’s how many days it took on average to resolve complaints: https://t.co/vPXXi1q47O pic.twitter.com/vvgFnrhTRr
— THE CITY (@THECITYNY) May 28, 2019