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  • CA: GOP activist used pseudonyms to get newspaper letters published

    04/25/2005 5:23:38 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 24 replies · 565+ views
    WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) - A Republican activist has acknowledged sending hundreds of bogus letters to the editorial pages of San Francisco Bay area newspapers over the past decade, many of which were published. Editors at the newspapers involved said Monday that they would intensify efforts to verify that letters to the editor are actually sent by the people who write them. However, technological advances have made bogus letters increasingly difficult to screen out, they said. "It's important to verify the authenticity of the letters we receive," San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Page Editor John Diaz told The Associated Press. "It's...
  • NEW BID TO MAKE CITY 51ST STATE (NYC)

    01/18/2005 4:04:36 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 177 replies · 3,184+ views
    New York Post ^ | January 18, 2005 | STEPHANIE GASKELL
    Should New York City become the 51st state? A bill that would create a commission to study whether the city should secede from New York state will get another hearing soon — after sitting in the City Council for nearly two years The bill was introduced on Feb. 26, 2003. A hearing was held shortly after, but no action has been taken on the bill since then. "I expected delays and opposition when we got to the state level, but I never thought it would be held up for two years trying to get out of a City Council committee,"...