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Monday, February 7, 2011

NYC Educator: Getting to Know You

NYC Educator: Getting to Know You

Getting to Know You

It's encouraging, on rare occasions, to see major media face reality straight-on. While upstart GothamSchools lingers behind the curve, pushing blather from union-busting billionaire shills,Daily News columnist Michael Daly steps up to highlight the hypocrisy of Emperor Mike lecturing demonstrators about democracy. Having attended numerous hearings, I'm very encouraged to see such a mainstream voice describing them to a wide audience.

I've seen criticism of Mulgrew's remarks comparing Bloomberg to Egypt's Mubarak. Actually, he was far from the first to make that comparison. Speaker after speaker said it. And sitting there, with what purported to be a panel (though filled with Bloomberg