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• What Can Brown Do for You?

  Published: July 31, 2007, 9:44 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, 9 11, Albany, Andrew Cuomo, Breasts, Brooklyn, Crime, Eliot Spitzer, Gays, Jon Corzine, Memorials, New Jersey, Republicans

  • Try following this: Spitzer's office said no to a Republican proposal to grant Andrew Cuomo special-prosecutor powers so that Cuomo could better stick it to Spitzer. Yeah. [NYDN]• The 9/11 families are threatening to boycott the ceremony commemorating the attacks' sixth anniversary if it isn't held in the middle of an active

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• Eliot Spitzer Has Reached Acceptance

  Published: August 2, 2007, 9:50 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, 9 11, Albany, City Council, Crime, Ed Koch, Eliot Spitzer, Ethics, Florida, Memorials, Mike Bloomberg, New York Post, Queens, Sex, The New York Times

  • The Albany County D.A., P. David Soares, announced yesterday that he will review Cuomo's findings regarding use of state police by the governor's office. Spitzer, sounding more Zen by the minute: "I welcome it, I accept it." [amNY]• Queens City Councilman Dennis Gallagher told a grand jury to call him an adulterer and not a rapist;

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• Partly Cooked

  Published: August 3, 2007, 9:47 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, 9 11, Brooklyn Bridge, City Council, Crime, Food, George Steinbrenner, Health, Mike Bloomberg, Trans Fats, Yankees

  • Something to ponder during your commute: The most recent federal survey rated the upkeep of the Brooklyn Bridge lower than its collapsed Minneapolis counterpart. [NYDN]• 9/11 families, who demand to be let into the construction pit on the anniversary of the attacks, will meet with Mayor Bloomberg to "find a mutually agreeable plan

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• Follow the E-mail

  Published: August 6, 2007, 9:40 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Abortion, Courts, Eliot Spitzer, Ethics, Mike Bloomberg, New Jersey, President, Rudy Giuliani, Stewart Airport

  • The Post, in another damning Spitzer exclusive (it's almost as if someone well connected in Albany hated the governor!), claims the administration is hiding a trove of private scandal-related e-mails, which Attorney General Cuomo, lacking subpoena power, didn't get. [NYP]• Rudy Giuliani's campaign says his speeches in Iowa this

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• 756*

  Published: August 8, 2007, 9:46 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Albany, Barry Bonds, Baseball, Con Ed, Crime, Death, Explosions, Housing, Mike Bloomberg, Mta, Nyu

  to their Barry Bonds headlines (the Post throws in syringes for good measure); the man is the new home-run king with 756 under his belt, but steroids and a Fed indictment on perjury kill the mood. [NYDN] • A fast break in the case of the NYU professors' daughter found dead days ago: her boyfriend has implicated himself in her murder

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• Brooklyn Cyclone, Confirmed

  Published: August 9, 2007, 9:49 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Andrew Cuomo, Arabic, Bay Ridge, Education, Magazines, Mitt Romney, Mta, Rain, Rudy Giuliani, Weather

  • Bay Ridge is cleaning up after, well, a tornado. There's even a Red Cross shelter set up, with about 30 families in it; more than twenty homes are deemed uninhabitable. [amNY]• In yesterday's wet wake, the ease with which this city falls apart under a few inches of rain has finally become a major issue; the MTA has 30 days to come

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• Sheriff Andy?

  Published: August 10, 2007, 9:57 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, 9 11, Albany, Andrew Cuomo, Crime, Eliot Spitzer, Mike Bloomberg, Mta, Newark, Rain, Weather

  • Andrew Cuomo, getting a feel for this whole crusading-A.G. thing, is asking the legislature to grant his office broad jurisdiction and subpoena powers. Our new awesome conspiracy theory: He gets the state GOP to empower him by promising them Spitzer's head -- and then subpoenas Bruno! [NYS]• There were two arrests for the

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• Std Clr of Clsg Dors, Pls

  Published: August 13, 2007, 9:43 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Cell Phones, Death, Eliot Spitzer, Joe Bruno, Mike Bloomberg, Mta, New York Post, President, Shootings, Subway

  on the 5 train early Sunday morning, after he and his friends got into an argument with another group on the train, one of whom pulled a gun and fired. Morning Line research suggests this is the first shooting death on the subway since February 2005. [NYT]

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• Here We Go Again: Mike to Get His Traffic Money, If Albany Agrees

  Published: August 14, 2007, 9:45 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Arabic, Bollywood, Congestion Pricing, Education, Jackson Heights, Mike Bloomberg, Newark, Shootings, Taxis, Traffic

  • The Feds are expected to announce today that, yes indeed, they'll shell out the big bucks necessary for Bloomberg to execute his congestion-pricing dream plan — if Albany passes it first, that is. [NYT]• A Jewish woman who speaks no Arabic has been named to run a controversial, Arabic-themed school now that the original

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• Bus Stop

  Published: August 15, 2007, 9:58 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, 9 11, Buses, Congestion Pricing, Eliot Spitzer, Floods, Memorials, Mta, New Jersey, Pets, Richard Braun, Weather, World Trade Center

  • Sure, the Feds promised Bloomberg $354 million for his traffic-reduction plan (if he can get the city and state to pass it), but that dough's mainly to put up new bus depots. Of the roughly $200 mil needed to charge drivers entering Manhattan, Uncle Sam's promised only $10 million. [NYT]•Spitzer chief of staff Richard Baum, soon

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• The Islamofascist Handbook

  Published: August 16, 2007, 10:13 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Andrew Cuomo, Eliot Spitzer, Gambling, High School, Nba, New Jersey, Nypd, Real Estate, Terrorism

  • To aid in terrorism surveillance, the NYPD has released a jihadi version of The Preppy Handbook, detailing how average Muslim schlubs morph into Islamic terrorists. Grow a beard, renounce booze and broads, play paintball war games, dis the U.S. a lot — you know the drill. [NYDN]• Even after releasing the report that brought

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• Joe Bruno, Eliot Spitzer Ruin It for Everybody

  Published: August 17, 2007, 9:56 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Advertising, Albany, Duane Reade, Eliot Spitzer, Health, Hospitals, Joe Bruno, Mta, Subway

  • One actual result of Troopergate (Brunogate? Spitzergate?): The State Ethics Commission passed a new rule preventing officials from using state aircraft unless the primary purpose of their trip is state business and requiring reimbursement for those parts that are not. [NYT]• When a woman in New Hampshire asked Rudy Giuliani,

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• Ground Zero Claims Two More

  Published: August 20, 2007, 9:50 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Deutsche Bank, Dogs, Environment, Fdny, Garbage, Ground Zero, Lower Manhattan, Noise, Park Slope, Pets

  • Two firefighters died Saturday in a blaze in the abandoned Deutsche Bank building adjacent to ground zero. The pair "walked into a horror show," as Spitzer put it, when they met a maze of protective polyurethane sheets that may have made the fire harder to fight. [amNY]• And now Lower Manhattan residents are concerned that near

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• Murder at Deutsche Bank?

  Published: August 21, 2007, 9:54 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Bronx, Cars, Corruption, Deutsche Bank, Fdny, Housing, Howard Safir, Nypd

  • The deaths of two firefighters in the Deutsche Bank blaze this weekend may be classified as homicides — and it could be negligent contractors, whose disabled a critical standpipe, and chain-smoking Eastern European immigrants, who started the fire, who are accused of murdering them. [NYP]• Move over, Bernie Kerik: Another

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• Standpipe Cut

  Published: August 22, 2007, 10:01 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Barry Bonds, Baseball, Cigarettes, Deutsche Bank, Education, Eliot Spitzer, Fdny, Health

  • As Robert Morgenthau's office starts a criminal investigation of the Deutsche Bank blaze that killed two firefighters, it turns out that the faulty standpipe had been deliberately cut — and recently. [NYP]• The state gave sixteen city schools the dread "persistently dangerous" label yesterday, bringing the local tally to

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