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Day: October 6, 2008

Two good pieces in NY Daily News and NY Times on Mayor Bloomberg and His Wish to Spend his Way to a Third Term

October 6, 2008

In Sunday’s (10/5) New York Daily News, Chad Marlow, president of an organization called The Public Advocacy Group, in an Op-Ed wrote: Make no mistake about it, extending term limits would provide a de facto … Read more…

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Realize that little things lead to bigger things ... And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of. ~ Pete Seeger

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