Mayor of New York City
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The Mayor of the City of New York is head of the executive branch of New York City's government. The Mayor's office administers all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within New York City.The budget overseen by the Mayor's office is the largest municipal budget in the United States at $50 billion a year. The city employs 250,000 people, spends about $15 billion to educate more than 1.1 million students, levies $27 billion in taxes, and receives $14 billion from the state and federal governments.The Mayor's office is located in New York City Hall; it has jurisdiction over all five boroughs of New York City: Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island.
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Andrew Mason’s Not-So-Greatest Moments at Groupon
Let’s get one thing straight: It wasn’t Andrew Mason’s personality that got him fired as CEO of Groupon today. If the local discounts service were doing well — and not taking one body blow after another from a Wall Street disappointed with its results and skeptical of its promise — he would have a job tomorrow morning, and for a long time to come.
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Gates, Zuckerberg champion computer programming in new nonprofit video
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Hadi and Ali Partovi immigrated to America from Iran in 1984, they slept in the same cramped bedroom as their parents, who exhausted their life savings on the teenage boys' education.
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Live chat today: How and when to break the rules of writing
The recent passing of former New York mayor Ed Koch reminded me of one of my favorite feature leads of all time, written in 1980 by one of the AP’s all-time greats, Saul Pett:.
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Changes to Koch's obit shown in stark relief by NewsDiffs
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch died in the wee hours of Friday morning, and The New York Times had its obituary ready to post--sort of. Poynter noted that Koch's Times obit was updated multiple times to add paragraphs on his failure to address the AIDS crisis as well as to tweak the language surrounding his silence on.
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Ed Koch: under the adulation
The death of former New York mayor Edward I. Koch last week at age 88 brought forth a flood of reminiscences (including my own) about him. Many recollections stressed Ed as a personality--the wisecracking New Yorker (by which many implied New York Jew)--and portrayed his persona as mayor and his persona as the TV.
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New York Times revises Koch obit to add AIDS controversy
The Huffington Post | NewsDiffs The New York Times’ 5,500-word obituary of Ed Koch has been revised at least three times today to update the former New York mayor’s statements about his sexuality and to include the controversy over his … Read more.
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TV-on-the-go service Aereo adds Bloomberg TV as first cable channel
Aereo, which offers a disruptive new way to watch TV, gained more traction this week by offering a cable channel in addition to its existing over-the-air service.
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The old man and the FT: should Mike Bloomberg buy the Financial Times?
Michael Bloomberg hopes to be a press baron after he steps down as mayor of New York City next year. And, contrary to rumors that he might buy the hometown New York Times, it appears the Financial Times is the target of his ambitions.
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Michael Bloomberg interested in The Financial Times - report
Michael Bloomberg, the media entrepreneur and mayor of New York, is reported to be interested in buying The Financial Times Group, publisher of the leading financial newspaper which also owns half of The Economist.
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Chrysler Comeback Kid Wins Adweek Honor
Olivier Franois, the cmo and much-praised branding engine for Chrysler Group, drove home last night with the honor of Grand Brand Genius of 2012. The award capped off Adweek’s Brand Genius gala awards dinner, an annual rite that recognizes the year’s 10 most memorable and innovative branding efforts and the marketers behind them.
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