Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:58 AM EDT on November 3, 2010
- Republican Tidal Wave Crushes House; Democrats Hang on in Senate (NYT, WaPo)
- Andrew Cuomo Wins NY Governor’s Race Without Breaking a Sweat (NYT, News)
- Schneiderman Wins AG, DiNapoli Squeaks Through For Comptroller (NYT 1, 2)
- State Senate Control Could Still End Up Either Way (NYT, Capital Tonight)
- Shelly Silver Likely, But Not Certain, to Keep Assembly Supermajority (Capital Tonight, NYT)
- Congestion Pricing Advocate Howie Hawkins Wins Ballot Line for Green Party (Capital Tonight)
- Ruben Wills, Former Aide to Shirley Huntley and Leroy Comrie, Leads Queens Council Race (WSJ)
- Infighting Over Improper Spending Tearing TWU Apart (Post)
- 16-Year-Old Hit and Killed in Dyker Heights; No Charges Filed (SI Advance)
- No Charges in Death of Sarah Parris, Canarsie Ninth-Grader Run Down in Front of School (News)
- NJ Considers Privatizing Transpo Infrastructure Including Tolls, Bus Lines, Parking Lots (Transpo Nation)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
Noah joined Streetsblog as a New York City reporter at the start of 2010. When he was a kid, he collected subway paraphernalia in a Vignelli-map shoebox.
Before coming to Streetsblog, he blogged at TheCityFix DC and worked as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Noah graduated from Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the class politics of transportation reform in New York City. He lives in Morningside Heights.
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