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Editorial: Lopez needs to go; Albany needs to change
Photo credit: Bryan Pace, 2001
Special prosecutor Daniel Donovan Wednesday found no basis for criminal charges against Vito Lopez, the veteran Brooklyn assemblyman caught up in a sexual harassment case that's lurid even by Albany's laughable standards. But Donovan's report and one by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, also released Wednesday, should alarm all New Yorkers who want to restore ethics, openness and honesty to...
Read more »Hillary Clinton backs same-sex marriage
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Making a switch from her former stance, Hillary Clinton sofficially supported same-sex marriage for the first time Monday.
Now that she has left public office, the former secretary of state explained shebelieved "personally and as a matter of policy and law" that gay and lesbian couples should be able to marry,in a video posted by Human Rights Campaign.
"They are full...
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