Vallone Was Torn On Term Limits
BY RICHARD GENTILVISO
      City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. conceded he did not make up his mind until the day before. "It was a very tough vote for me," he said. When the City Council, by a count of 29 yeas to 22 nays, decided to approve an amendment to the term limits law last month, Vallone voted in favor.
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Democrat-Led State Senate Would Help Chances Of Revived Commuter Tax
      According to Washington insiders, President-elect Barack Obama will name Senator Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State, an administration top diplomatic officer, on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving Day. Reinstating the commuter tax on people from the suburbs who work in New York City every day is an idea whose time may be coming.
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