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Today’s Headlines

9:00 AM EDT on October 31, 2011

    • Hundreds of Cops Protest Tix Fix Indictments, Attacking DAs and Welfare Recipients (NYT)
    • Outside the Bronx, DAs Won't Touch Tix Fix Scandal (Post)
    • Siblings Climb Out of Cross-Bronx Crash, Get Knocked Off Overpass By Moving Car (NYT, News)
    • Two Off-Duty Cops Busted for DWI (Post)
    • Previewing Joe Lhota's Confirmation Hearing: "Payroll Tax" and "Forensic Audit" (LoHud)
    • East Harlem Streets Sapped of Vitality By Sealed-Up Buildings (NYT)
    • Upstate Senator's 88-Year-Old Aunt Killed in Hit-and-Run (CapTon)
    • Greg Meeks Spent $7K in Campaign Funds to Fix His Mercedes Convertible (Post)
    • NYT: Honking Is For Safety, And Nothing Else
    • MTA May Cut Bus Service to Avoid Halloween Mayhem (News)
    • Cuomo to Host "Taxi Summit" to Forge Borough Taxi Compromise (Post)
    • Nyack Trustee: Tappan Zee Plan "10 Steps Forward, 55 Years Back" (Nyack News/Views)
    • After FDNY Seizes Generators, Occupy Wall Street Turns to Pedal Power (NYT)

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Noah Kazis
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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