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...taking so long? In part, ground zero's story is quintessentially New York City. It's a battle over real estate and turf. Silverstein, a tenacious developer best known for erecting the original 7 World Trade Center, has pitted himself against a billionaire businessman mayor; an ambitious Governor; grieving, conflicted families; and a small army of politically plugged-in bureaucrats--all with their own ideas about what should be built, how much it ought to cost and who should pay for it. Even Donald Trump makes a cameo. Trump, whom Silverstein once considered a friend, unveiled a competing proposal last...
Complicating matters, both New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had staked political capital on carrying out their visions of ground zero. Pataki muscled Silverstein out of the initial planning, organizing a worldwide architecture competition, eventually won by Daniel Libeskind, who designed a complex, including a museum, a memorial, a performing-arts center, a transportation hub and five office towers, with what is now known as the Freedom Tower as the tallest. Bloomberg tried a bureaucratic end run, offering to swap with the Port Authority control of the city's airports for ground zero...
...Jerry Brown Still Wants Your Vote The California dreamer has been mayor, Governor and tried for the presidency three times. Why won't he ever retire...
...region at a remarkable pace. Another, Ollanta Humala, may win Peru's presidential election this month, and he too has pledged to drastically renegotiate his nation's contracts with foreign energy and mining companies. Meanwhile, though the front-runner in this year's Mexican presidential race, former Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is more friendly to foreign investment than the likes of Chavez, he has also pledged to review certain aspects of the 12-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA...
...economic hardship rather than entering a cycle of homelessness, she said. McDonagh called the federal government’s current Section 8 Voucher program, which subsidizes rent for low-income citizens, “barely recognizable anymore.” Michael A. Sullivan, a city councillor and former mayor of Cambridge who also participated in the panel, emphasized the importance of educating the public about homelessness to deflate the stereotype that the homeless are responsible for their situation. Because of this stigma, DeLong said that to less experienced shelter volunteers, a homeless person is “basically a drunk...