Editorial
Cautious Optimism Greets Spitzer's Proposals
      In his first address to the state legislature last week, Governor Eliot Spitzer, still riding the crest of an election victory of mandate proportions, continued to lay out his ambitious vision of state government, which he had started to describe earlier in the week after being sworn in as the stat...
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      Hails Local Bookstore To The Editor: As I have mentioned in the press, I have been in contact with several companies to bring a large bookstore- such as Borders or Barnes and Noble- to serve the neighborhoods of Astoria. I undertook this project due to dozens of constituent calls asking me for su...
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Op- ed
Mayor: Make 2007 Even Better Than 2006
BY MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
      I think it's safe to say that 2006 has been a banner year for New Yorkers. We're living longer, our streets are safer and our economy is thriving. Our city is also more popular than ever before. How do we know? Because millions of tourists came to visit us between Thanksgiving and Christmas alone.
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Beg Pardon
      The article "NY Nat'l Guard Commissions 1st Greek Orthodox Chaplain" in the Jan. 3, 2007 edition of the Gazette incorrectly stated that the Rev. Dionisios Marketos had been commissioned a First Lieutenant In the New York National Guard. The Rev. Marketos has been commissioned to serve in the New ...
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