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By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsAdd New Year's 2011 Times Square Ball Drop to his impressive resume. U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore A. Giunta, the first living person to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War, is this year's guest of honor at the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball Drop. Giunta, who received the America's highest military honor for his efforts in the war in Afghanistan, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg will press the ceremonial button to signal the release of the famous crystal ball from atop the One Times Square Building. Here is a video of President Barack Obama describing Giunta's heroic efforts and ...
How Cory Booker Beat Michael Bloomberg in the Mayor-Blizzard Game
By JJ Helland - AOL NewsMemo to Michael Bloomberg: The next time a monster blizzard hits your city, do what Cory Booker did. The Newark, N.J., mayor has emerged as an online hero after he and his staff went around the city helping residents cope with the winter blast. Besides communicating with constituents on Twitter, Booker helped shovel snow and directed plows to congested areas. Check out some of Booker's tweets that earned him a lot of kudos: .bbpBox19927535001280510 {background:url(http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/74694112/Cory_Booker_looking_up5.jpg) #9AE4E8;padding:20px;} ...
Cathleen Black Clears Final Hurdle to Become NYC's Schools Chief
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK – A controversial publishing executive chosen by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to become the city's new schools chancellor won a final battle on Monday and will take office in January. The media executive, Cathleen P. Black, the chairwoman of Hearst Magazines, needed a waiver from the state education commissioner to bypass a state law that requires New York City schools chiefs to have certain education credentials. Black has no advanced degrees and has no background or experience in education. The decision to grant the waiver was made after Bloomberg and Black agreed to name a ...
Opinion: Ground Zero Mosque Fight -- All Heat, No Light
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 18) -- One thing about the ground zero mosque debate is undebatable: it's a polarizing conversation that's been raging for weeks and is only serving to make a bad situation worse. And while the fight becomes ever uglier, we've got an enormous amount of work on our hands. Here in America, we need to address the fraught relationship between non-Muslim Americans and our Muslim minority. And there's the enormously complex issue of our relationship with the world's 1.5 billion Muslims. We're moving further apart when we can least afford to aggravate the rupture. Seth Wenig, AP Linda ...
Opinion: Time for a Mosque 'Beer Summit'?
By Michael Medved - AOL News(Aug. 17) -- The polarizing conflict over the proposed Islamic Cultural Center in lower Manhattan has become as nasty as it is unnecessary. If leaders on all sides managed to address the dispute in a broader perspective, it ought to become obvious that Americans actually agree on both of the key issues in the debate. First, the public overwhelmingly acknowledges the right of Muslims to worship without harassment or interference, and to enjoy the same religious liberty as Christians, Jews or non-believers, for that matter. No prominent voices among opponents of the so-called "ground zero ...
New Yorkers Resigned to Supporting Bloomberg for Mayor
By David Sessions - Politics DailyMichael Bloomberg may be the only mayoral candidate it makes any sense for New Yorkers to vote for, but they're not doing it without grumbling, the Washington Post reports. Bloomberg leads his primary opponent, the hardly known and under-funded Democrat Bill Thomson, by double digits in the polls, prompting "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart to joke that is is "running unopposed." But even among his supporters, voters are queasy about the sums he has spent to remain in office -- $250 million over three campaigns, the most of any American politician in history -- and his abrupt change of the law to ...
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