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Weeks after the shooting in Tucson, sellers at an Arizona gun show allowed undercover investigators hired by New York City to buy semiautomatic pistols even after they said they probably couldn't pass a background check, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday. "After Tucson, you would think that people, particularly at a gun show in Arizona, would have been much more careful in enforcing the law," he said. "That unfortunately in some cases wasn't the case." Bloomberg has authorized similar sting operations around the country as part of a push for tougher federal laws to help keep guns off the streets of...

To all of our veterans, I say “Thank You” for your service. For our Viet Nam vets who didn’t receive a hero’s welcome when you came home, I’d like to extend a hand of thanks for the service you gave to your country. This story, as I’m sure you may have heard, is about Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal lying about his service record. Specifically, he states that he served in Viet Nam when he really didn’t. Many people are making a specific point to expose this lying politician for what he really is…a service dodger. I agree that he...

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg tells CBS' Katie Couric that the Times Square car bomber was someone who is "mentally deranged" with a "political agenda" that didn't like the health care bill.

LOS ANGELES -- It took Mike Bloomberg only two days in California to catch the Arnold Schwarzenegger bug. And then, just like the New Yorker that he is, the mayor had to go and one-up the governor, showing Schwarzenegger what real post-partisanship looks like. Bloomberg, after bouncing from San Francisco to Silicon Valley to West Los Angeles delivering speeches on the need for centrist leadership to solve the nation's problems, announced from here late Tuesday that he was leaving the Republican Party to become an independent. That immediately fueled speculation that he intends to run for president in 2008. Bloomberg...

It's been well over a week since our little run in with the adviser to our president. I am just now processing all that took place during the last few days of the Stop Global Warming College tour and a few concerns still hang heavy on my mind and heart. First, I am deeply concerned over where we are as a nation. We are so blessed to live in a country where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even begin to imagine. However, what terrifies me is not what we are ignoring about the state of our...

You might think that officials in New York City, which has more people than all but 11 states, had enough to do providing basic city services. But Mayor Michael Bloomberg believes that what New Yorkers really need is a better diet, and he's just the man to order it. A politician's work is never done. At the mayor's urging this week, New York's Board of Health voted to ban restaurant use of artificial trans fats, those liquid oils made solid through hydrogenation and found in all manner of fried, baked and processed foods. Many of these products aren't particularly healthy,...

City JournalWon’t Someone Stop This Tragedy?Bloomberg’s education campaign is driving Gotham’s Catholic schools out of business.Sol Stern 18 April 2006 Something precious in the lives of many deserving New Yorkers is slowly dying in Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s glittering city. The New York Catholic Archdiocese recently announced that it would close 14 schools, following on last year’s announcement by the Archdiocese of Brooklyn that it would shutter 22 of its schools in Brooklyn and Queens. Located in some of Gotham’s neediest neighborhoods, these schools have served for over a century as a haven for low-income but striving families. Many of...

As Democrats pursue an uphill battle to recapture City Hall on Tuesday, this year's mayoral campaign has already exposed the long-term fracturing of Democratic power in the city, from splinters in the black and Hispanic vote to defections in liberal bastions like the West Side. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's popularity and his $66 million in campaign spending are two pressure points as the campaign winds into its final phase this weekend. Yet it is the permanent structural changes in New York politics - such as term limits, campaign finance reforms and evolving demographics - that are really shaking the once-dominant...

It's official. There will not be a Republican primary for mayor today. A federal court has refused to hear an expedited appeal from Thomas Ognibene to restore him to the ballot. The Board of Elections threw him off last month after Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Ognibene did not have enough valid signatures on his nominating petitions.

Forget about temporary status for undocumented immigrants, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said - let them stay here permanently and legally.While it isn't the first time Bloomberg has urged leniency for about 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, he issued his strongest call yet recently."Give them some kind of permanent green card," he said at a meeting at the Carib News, a Manhattan weekly newspaper serving the Caribbean-American community.In an article in the paper's June 21 edition, Bloomberg told the gathering of community leaders he wouldn't go as far as granting citizenship, but called for illegal immigrants to be granted...

NEW YORK (CBS) It seems city classrooms aren't just for learning anymore. On several occasions over the past week, teachers have been charged with kissing, touching, even having sex with their students. Now some lawmakers are trying to come up with ways to prevent it. It was the fifth such incident in a week. This time, it was a female math teacher charged with kissing a 15-year-old student at I.S. 55 in Brownsville. And on Thursday, the mayor said enough's enough. “It is not acceptable behavior to have our teachers having personal, sexual relationships with the students that we entrust...