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  • Help For Haiti

    Posted by Eric T. Schneiderman on Thursday, January 14th, 2010

    The devastation in Haiti is heartbreaking beyond words.

    I am proud that our national government is moving quickly to provide assistance, but at a time of such incomprehensible loss we all have an individual responsibility, as well as a collective one, to contribute to the relief effort.

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  • Daily News: How gay unions lost -- but won

    Bill Hammond

    Supporters of same-sex marriage sadly lost the 38-to-24 vote in the state Senate last week, but they won the argument.

    On the merits, the debate wasn't even close.

    In fact, with the lonely exception of Bronx Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., opponents literally said nothing to justify denying equal marital rights to tens of thousands of New Yorkers.

    The only word 37 of them spoke was "no."

    Their collective silence was shameful.

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