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Quotes of the Day

• Aristotle
  "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." […]
• Benjamin Disraeli
  "Man is only great when he acts from passion." […]
• Winston Churchill
  "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." […]

This Week Past Years

2009

• CHERRIES "TA-RA-RA BOOM DE AYE"
• WILL-O'-THE-WISP DOOM
• PAPA'S BREW REGAINED

2008

• THE BELATEDLY LATE SPITZER

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

• City Control of Brooklyn Bridge Park: What Does It Mean? March 10, 2010
  Near-Unanimous, Enthusiastic Approval Meets Announcement By Raanan Geberer Brooklyn Daily Eagle BROOKLYN – Wednesday’s announcement giving the city the primary responsibility to build and operate the 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park was met with applause in Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights and other nearby areas. “Brooklyn Bridge Park can and should be one of […]
• Domino Sugar Project Not Sweet Enough for Community Bd. 1? March 10, 2010
  Developer Affirms Affordability Will Be Permanent; Borough President Holds Public Hearing Thursday By Linda Collins Brooklyn Daily Eagle WILLIAMSBURG — Community Board 1’s full board on Tuesday rejected the mixed-use development proposed for the Domino Sugar site at 289 Kent Ave. on the Williamsburg waterfront. The vote was 23-to-12 (with one abstention), ba […]
• Review and CommentSchools for Americans March 10, 2010
  Why don’t so many American children do better in school? That leading student of schools and sometime Brooklyn Heights resident Diane Ravitch has made news by changing her opinion on such things as the emphasis on standardized tests and the […]
• City-Wide Green Group Gets Makeover March 10, 2010
  GrowNYC Operates 45 Greenmarkets, 11 in B’klyn By Sarah Tobol Brooklyn Eagle BROOKLYN -- Upon hearing the name “Council on the Environment of New York City,” many people assume the organization is a city agency. Still others aren’t aware that this organization has been responsible for the city’s greenmarkets since the very first one opened in 1976. Because o […]
• Participants Are Picked For BKLYN DESIGNS 2010 March 10, 2010
  The jury for BKLYN DESIGNS 2010 has chosen 45 designers to be represented at the eighth annual event, which takes place at St. Ann’s Warehouse in DUMBO May 7-9. Wendy Goodman, design editor of New York Magazine, commented that the exhibit […]
• ‘eARTh’ Exhibit Helps MillionTreesNYC Project March 10, 2010
  Clinton Hill Show Aims To Raise Eco-Consciousness By Harold Egeln Brooklyn Daily Eagle CLINTON HILL – Trees are the life and breath of Planet Earth, keeping the carbon dioxide and oxygen exchange cycle around the globe in balance. Bringing that fact and concerns about threats to that life-giving cycle is an art show called “eARTh” at a gallery in a 19th Cent […]
• Brooklyn Today: Wednesday March 10, 2010 March 10, 2010
  Good morning. Today is the 69th day of the year. On this day in 1880, the Salvation Army was established in New York when Commissioner George Scott Rialton and seven women officers came to New York from London. Well-known people who […]
• Local Anti-Gay Assault Condemned March 10, 2010
  An assault early last Tuesday at Luquer Street and Hamilton Avenue, in which five men reportedly assaulted a local man while yelling anti-gay slurs, was condemned by local officials. “I am outraged to hear of this hateful verbal and physical […]
• After Winter, Spring? March 10, 2010
  A saxophonist sounded a hopeful note, with a drummer behind him, as a mild weekend erased almost all remnants of recent snow from the Heights Promenade. * * * Questions? Comments? Sound off to the Editor ———————— © Brooklyn Daily Eagle 2010 All materials posted on BrooklynEagle.com are protected by United States copyright law. Just a reminder, though -- It’s […]
• Some Quietly Move From Yards ‘Footprint’ March 10, 2010
  According to the Atlantic Yards Report, some of the remaining renters and property owners in the Atlantic Yards “footprint,” including those who have taken part in litigation against the project, have been moving away from the area, even before the […]

NY Times (NY Regional)

• Qing Hong Wu, Detainee Pardoned by Paterson, Savors Freedom March 11, 2010
  Qing Hong Wu didn’t know he was being freed until days after the pardon from Gov. David A. Paterson that led to his release. […]
• Tough Times for Basil Paterson, Father of New York’s Governor March 11, 2010
  Friends said it has been hard for Basil A. Paterson, a political power in Harlem for decades, to watch his son, David A. Paterson, become embroiled in scandal. […]
• David J. Loglisci Pleads Guilty in New York Pension Scandal March 11, 2010
  David J. Loglisci, the former chief investment officer for New York’s pension fund, told a court of kickbacks. […]
• British Airways, American and Iberia Move Toward Alliance March 11, 2010
  To appease regulators, British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia will cede takeoff and landing spots at airports serving New York and London. […]
• Sports Business: Lots of Memories, and Debris, at Old Yankee Stadium March 11, 2010
  So much has been destroyed that it’s hard to feel even a tingle of fuzzy nostalgia for the house that Ruth built and the city is razing. […]
• Dogs That Detect Bedbugs March 11, 2010
  Bedbug-sniffing dogs are the new and furry front line in an escalating domestic war. […]
• Albany Is Taking New Budget Proposal Seriously March 11, 2010
  Lawmakers reacted with cautious interest to Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch’s plan to tackle New York’s budget deficit. […]
• Albany Sides With Independence Plaza in TriBeCa Rent Suit March 11, 2010
  The state’s housing division backed the city’s decision that the landlord of Independence Plaza North could charge its tenants market-rate rents. […]
• Our Towns: Tax Revolt Over Schools in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. March 11, 2010
  The debate over school taxes in Hastings-on-Hudson has revealed the cultural and economic fault lines in the Westchester County river town. […]
• District Attorney Raids Offices of Lehr Construction March 11, 2010
  Investigators took documents from the Manhattan office of Lehr Construction and also went to the Long Island home of one of the company’s executives. […]

Media Matters

• Hannity falsely claims that health care bill doesn't provide immediate benefits
  March 11, 2010
  On March 3, Sean Hannity falsely claimed that "we're going to pay taxes on this bill what for three, four years, before the bill is even implemented." In fact, numerous benefits contained in the Senate bill would become available in the first year after the bill is enacted.Hannity: "We're going to pay taxes" for years before the
• Beck echoes absurd claim that Obama wants to ban fishing
  March 10, 2010
  Seizing on an absurd claim spread by right-wing blogs that President Obama wants to ban sport fishing, Glenn Beck stated on his Fox News program that Obama is attempting to prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing on some of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, and great lakes "by executive order." In fact, there is no evidence of any such order, bu
• Beck absurdly claims that alternative poverty measurement would classify him as poor
  March 10, 2010
  Glenn Beck claimed that President Obama was drastically changing the poverty scale in a way that would effectively classify Beck as "in poverty" because other people in his community are wealthier than he is. In fact, the measurement would supplement, not replace, the poverty measurement currently in use, and it would not count Beck as poor. From t
• Fox smears appeals court nominee as "biased in favor of sex offenders"
  March 10, 2010
  Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson stated that appeals court nominee Judge Robert Chatigny "gained notoriety" for "fight[ing] the execution of convicted serial killer and rapist Michael Ross," adding that "[s]ome are concerned he may be biased in favor of sex offenders." However, an appeals court panel -- which included
• Hannity latest Fox News employee to defend Beck's claim that Obama is "racist"
  March 10, 2010
  On his Fox News show, Sean Hannity became the latest Fox News personality to defend Glenn Beck's statement that President Obama is "a racist," joining News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch and Fox News president Roger Ailes. Discussing Beck's comments, Hannity stated, "When the president hangs out with Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, I'
• Thiessen falsely claims all Senate Judiciary Republicans echoed Cheney's DOJ attack ad
  March 10, 2010
  Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen falsely claimed that "all the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee" were asking questions similar to those posed by Liz Cheney's controversial ad campaign attacking Justice Department attorneys who previously represented terrorism detainees. In fact, Sen. Lindsey Graham -- a Republican member of
• Right-wing media eagerly spread absurd claim that Obama plans to "ban sport fishing"
  March 10, 2010
  Following the lead of an ESPNOutdoors.com opinion writer, who provided no evidence for his claim that a federal strategy "could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing," right-wing blogs have advanced the outlandish charge that Obama "wants to ban sport fishing." These media outlets cited the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force's interim
• Thiessen brings "shameful" attacks on DOJ lawyers to Fox
  March 10, 2010
  Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen appeared on Fox & Friends to promote his attacks on Department of Justice lawyers who previously represented or advocated for terror suspects and other detainees. Thiessen claimed the lawyers were "trying to spring terrorists out of Guantanamo" and again distorted DOJ lawyer Jennifer Daskal's past le
• O'Reilly, Dobbs wrong that undocumented immigrants don't pay taxes
  March 10, 2010
  On the March 9 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly and former CNN host Lou Dobbs suggested that undocumented immigrants "dodge taxes," with O'Reilly asserting that the notion that they pay taxes is "crap." In fact, according to the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security Administrat
• After trumpeting ethics allegations against Massa, conservative media embrace his accusations against Dem leaders
  March 9, 2010
  After highlighting reports last week that the House ethics committee was investigating whether former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) had sexually harassed a member of his staff, conservative media pivoted to promote Massa's subsequent claim that the Democratic leadership had orchestrated the investigation in order to force him out of office because he opposes h
• Horner promotes discredited green jobs study, pushes conspiracy theory involving CAP, DOE
  March 9, 2010
  In a Washington Times' op-ed, Chris Horner revived a discredited study to conclude that green jobs initiatives in Spain were "economic and employment disasters." Horner also accused the Center of American Progress, the American Wind Energy Association, and the Department of Energy of coordinating "to produce an attack that would serve all
• Fox misinforms on health care reform's immediate benefits and deficit reductions
  March 9, 2010
  On Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson falsely suggested health care reform legislation contained no immediate benefits, and Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney claimed that "nobody believes" that health care reform will reduce the deficit. In fact, numerous benefits found in the Senate's bill and President Obama's proposal wo
• WND falsely claims TSA nominee's views on diversity are "controversial"
  March 9, 2010
  In an attack on Gen. Robert Harding, President Obama's nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), WorldNetDaily falsely claimed that Harding's views on the necessity for diversity hiring in the intelligence community are "controversial." In fact, numerous officials -- including President Bush -- and intelligence exp
• Eric Boehlert: The Pentagon shooter, insurrectionism, and right-wing bloggers
  March 9, 2010
  When news broke last Thursday that a deranged gunman had opened fire outside a Pentagon security checkpoint, wounding two officers before being stopped by return fire (the gunman later died from his wounds), the reaction from some oddly giddy right-wing bloggers was swift. They wanted everyone to pay attention to the story. Why? Because bloggers claimed the
• In newest column, Wash. Post 's Thiessen defends witch hunt against DOJ lawyers
  March 9, 2010
  Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen defended the witch hunt against Justice Department attorneys who previously represented terror suspects and other detainees, falsely suggesting that criticism of the witch hunt has come only from progressives, when, in fact, conservatives have also condemned the attacks. Thiessen brings "shameful" attacks on

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