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After Sandy, AT&T Builds Solar Phone Charging Stations Across NYC
In the days following Superstorm Sandy, Starbucks and other restaurants in the New York City region had lines out the door.
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Bloomberg Gives Glimpse Of New Building Requirements In Flood Prone Areas
Some lame duck politicians go out on a whimper, defeated by gridlock, apathy and restlessness on part of the people.
Re: Pregnant Boys: Chicago Teen Parent Ads Spark Controversy [VIDEO]
Instead of taking a page from New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and slut-shaming teen girls into abstinence, the Chicago Department of Public Health has reframed the conversation to focus on potential teen fathers who - in keeping with the gender double standard in this patriarchal society - tend to dodge the stigma of early parenthood.
18 mayors: Limit use of food stamps to buy soda
The mayors of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and 15 other cities are reviving a push against letting food stamps be used to buy soda and other sugary drinks.
EXCLUSIVE Photo Coverage: Actors' Equity Association's...
To coincide with the labor union's 100th anniversary, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg issued an official proclamation declaring Sunday, May 26, 2013 as "Actors' Equity Day" in New York City.
A rendering of SeaPort City and Michael Bloomberg
Though experts have praised many components of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's $19.5 billion plan to protect New York City from Hurricane Sandy, his proposal for SeaPort City has been widely panned, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Want to save at the supermarket? Compost
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to require residents to compost their food waste may cause headaches for some families, but experts say it could also help cut their rising grocery bills.
Christine Quinn's Prime Real Estate: Macro Sea / Brooklyn Naval Yard
As the days wind down to November 5--when New Yorkers will choose their first post-Bloomberg leader--the would-be mayors continue their mad dash for donors, seeking large contributions from New York's most powerful elites.
Former Newtown resident urges gun-sale background checks in Maine
A national push for laws that keep guns out of hands that would do evil with them came to Augusta on Monday.
NYC aims to require composting food scraps
Legions of apartment dwellers will soon be asked - and may eventually be forced - to start collecting food scraps for composting, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest bid to make the Big Apple greener.
Levees, Removable Walls Proposed to Protect NYC
Removable floodwalls would be erected in lower Manhattan, and levees, gates and other defenses would be built elsewhere around the city under a nearly $20 billion plan proposed Tuesday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to protect New York from storms and the effects of global warming.
Bloomberg set to roll out New York composting plan for food waste
Mayor set to cross 'final recycling frontier' with city-wide plan to handle up to 100,000 tons of food waste a year Reducing the amount of waste that ends up in landfills reduces greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
Why Dwindling Snowa "Thanks Largely to Climate Changea "Might Dry Out Los Angeles
While the national government remains slow to deal with climate change , many cities have been moving ahead.
Another brave move by New York Mayor - food composting
Today, the New York Times reported that outgoing mayor Michael Bloomberg will follow up on his February comment deploring food waste by establishing a program to allow households to recycle it through city-collected bins.
Mayor Bloomberg Tells Stanford Graduates To Go To NYC For Tech
Billy Gallagher is a contributor for TechCrunch. He is currently the co-student body president at Stanford University, where he is on track to graduate with a bachelor's degree in economics in 2014.
Beyond NYC: Other places adapting to climate, too
From Bangkok to Miami, cities and coastal areas across the globe are already building or planning defenses to protect millions of people and key infrastructure from more powerful storm surges and other effects of global warming.
Re: Pregnant Boys: Chicago Teen Parent Ads Spark Controversy [VIDEO]
Instead of taking a page from New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and slut-shaming teen girls into abstinence, the Chicago Department of Public Health has reframed the conversation to focus on potential teen fathers who - in keeping with the gender double standard in this patriarchal society - tend to dodge the stigma of early parenthood.
Bloomberg's money loses to grassroots citizen activists on gun control in Nevada
Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, billionaire, desiring to rewrite the constitution , and countrywide buttinski suffered a major "gun control" loss on Thursday in Nevada.
Gun Control, Obama at G8: 5 Stories...
It was a week of red lines and green lights, and yellow caution signs around the big legislative pushes of the year.
Climate talk shifts from curbing CO2 to adapting
The conversation is no longer solely about how to save the planet by cutting carbon emissions.