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New York state budget: the money is there, if you look for it

November 10, 2009 By Dan Margolis

Yesterday, Gov. David Paterson made a speech before an extraordinary joint session of the State Senate and Assembly, pushing the legislative bodies to accept his plan to alleviate the state's more than $3.2 billion deficit for...

Communist editor speaks of struggle and socialism

November 10, 2009 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

An interview with Carlos Lozano a top official of the Communist Party of Colombia is no small matter.

Justices review life terms for teen offenders

November 10, 2009

A majority on the Supreme Court appeared to signal changing the use of life prison terms without parole for teenagers whose crimes do not involve a murder.

Foreign companies getting bulk of green stimulus

November 10, 2009 By Susan Webb

Of the $1.05 billion of stimulus funds handed out for clean energy grants since Sept. 1, 84 percent - $849 million - has gone to foreign wind companies.

Wall Street gets swine flu vaccine before others

November 9, 2009

Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley were among the first employers in New York to receive shipments of the badly sought after H1N1 swine flu vaccine.