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<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"><title>News on The Bronx</title><link href="http://uspoliticsinfo.com/topic/the-bronx" rel="alternate"></link><id>http://uspoliticsinfo.com/topic/the-bronx</id><updated>2010-12-23T06:01:29Z</updated><entry><title>Bronx BP could be next to head to the White House</title><link href="http://uspoliticsinfo.com/u.s.-politics/bronx-bp-head-white-house-2760446a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-10-22T12:15:09Z</updated><author><name>The Encyclopedia Britannica</name></author><id>tag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-10-22:/u.s.-politics/bronx-bp-head-white-house-2760446a/</id><summary type="html">...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Elections and Voting"></category><category term="Local Politics"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="The White House"></category><category term="The Bronx"></category><category term="Hillary Clinton"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Shaun Donovan (Politician)"></category><category term="Obama's HUD"></category><category term="White House Office of Urban Policy"></category></entry><entry><title>Early Afternoon Update</title><link href="http://uspoliticsinfo.com/u.s.-politics/early-afternoon-update-414612a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-04-16T13:52:26Z</updated><author><name>The New York Observer</name></author><id>tag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-04-16:/u.s.-politics/early-afternoon-update-414612a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;New City Council legislation would hike the city’s tax on hotel rooms from 5 percent to 5.875 percent. [GlobeSt]
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don Trump says the market hasn't bottomed out yet. [Wharton via TRD] 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="The Bronx" href="/topic/The+Bronx" &gt;Bronx&lt;/a&gt; Beep Carrion not talking about possible housing post in &lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;Obama administration&lt;/a&gt;. [PolitickerNY] 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;City Comptroller Thompson has "real questions" about &lt;a title="Yankee Stadium" hre...</summary><category term="Travel and Tourism"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Local Politics"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="The Bronx"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Hotels"></category><category term="Yankee Stadium"></category><category term="New York Observer LP"></category></entry><entry><title>Bronx Beep Carrion To Head HUD?</title><link href="http://uspoliticsinfo.com/u.s.-politics/bronx-beep-carrion-head-hud-411597a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-06-25T23:42:42Z</updated><author><name>The New York Observer</name></author><id>tag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-06-25:/u.s.-politics/bronx-beep-carrion-head-hud-411597a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="The Bronx" href="/topic/The+Bronx" &gt;Bronx&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="Adolfo Carrion" href="/topic/Adolfo+Carrion" &gt;Borough President Adolfo Carrion&lt;/a&gt; has reportedly accepted the nomination to be &lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President-elect Obama&lt;/a&gt;'s secretary of Housing and Urban Development. More from &lt;a title="Azi Paybarah" href="/topic/Azi+Paybarah" &gt;Azi Paybarah&lt;/a&gt; at PolitickerNY. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=3840240...</summary><category term="Economic Issues"></category><category term="Economic Development"></category><category term="Urban Planning"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Local Politics"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="The Bronx"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="New York Observer LP"></category><category term="Adolfo Carrion"></category><category term="Azi Paybarah"></category></entry><entry><title>Elsewhere: Tedisco on Clinton's Replacement, Heastie's Call for Unity</title><link href="http://uspoliticsinfo.com/u.s.-politics/tedisco-clintons-replacement-heasties-call-unity-395963a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-06-25T23:55:56Z</updated><author><name>The New York Observer</name></author><id>tag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-06-25:/u.s.-politics/tedisco-clintons-replacement-heasties-call-unity-395963a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brand new &lt;a title="The Bronx" href="/topic/The+Bronx" &gt;Bronx&lt;/a&gt; Democratic boss &lt;a title="Carl Heastie" href="/topic/Carl+Heastie" &gt;Carl Heastie&lt;/a&gt;, who led a messy coup against former leader &lt;a title="Jose Rivera" href="/topic/Jose+Rivera" &gt;Jose Rivera&lt;/a&gt;, calls for unity.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a title="James Tedisco" href="/topic/James+Tedisco" &gt;Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco&lt;/a&gt;, who helped Senate Majority Leader &lt;a title="Dean Skelos" href="/topic/Dean+Skelos" &gt;Dean Skelos&lt;/a&gt; bar &lt;a ti...</summary><category term="Media"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Local Politics"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Internet"></category><category term="Blogs and Blogging"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="Condoleezza Rice"></category><category term="Syracuse"></category><category term="The Bronx"></category><category term="U.S.S.R."></category><category term="Hillary Clinton"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Upstate New York"></category><category term="David Paterson"></category><category term="Rudolph Giuliani"></category><category term="Robert Gates"></category><category term="New York Observer LP"></category><category term="Carl Heastie"></category><category term="Anthony Weiner"></category><category term="Adolfo Carrion"></category><category term="Joel Klein"></category><category term="Jessica Lappin"></category><category term="James Tedisco"></category><category term="Dean Skelos"></category><category term="Jose Rivera"></category><category term="John DeSio"></category><category term="U.S. State Politics"></category><category term="New York State Politics"></category></entry><entry><title>Malcolm Smith and the Worst Job in New York Politics</title><link href="http://uspoliticsinfo.com/u.s.-politics/malcolm-smith-worst-job-new-york-politics-491222a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-06-25T22:41:32Z</updated><author><name>The New York Observer</name></author><id>tag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-06-25:/u.s.-politics/malcolm-smith-worst-job-new-york-politics-491222a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;With Senate Republicans struggling in the polls as the November elections approach, &lt;a title="Malcolm Smith" href="/topic/Malcolm+Smith" &gt;Malcolm Smith&lt;/a&gt;&amp;amp;#8217;s dream of controlling &lt;a title="New York State Senate" href="/topic/New+York+State+Senate" &gt;the Senate&lt;/a&gt; may soon come true. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But for the State Senate minority leader, the promised land is a minefield. And should his party gain two seats in next month&amp;amp;#8217;s legislative races and assume control for the first t...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Election Campaigns"></category><category term="Political Parties"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Public Finance"></category><category term="Taxes"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Manhattan"></category><category term="The Bronx"></category><category term="Albany"></category><category term="David Paterson"></category><category term="Michael Bloomberg"></category><category term="New York Observer LP"></category><category term="Sheldon Silver"></category><category term="Eliot Spitzer"></category><category term="Ruben Diaz"></category><category term="Pedro Espada"></category><category term="Malcolm Smith"></category><category term="Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee"></category><category term="Joe Bruno"></category><category term="New York State Senate"></category><category term="Alan Chartock"></category><category term="Daniel Squadron"></category><category term="Efrain Gonzalez"></category><category term="Carl Kruger"></category><category term="Working Families Party"></category><category term="Liz Krueger"></category><category term="Hank Sheinkopf"></category><category term="Bill Cunningham"></category><category term="Darrel Aubertine"></category><category term="Floyd Flake"></category><category term="Jeffrey Klein"></category><category term="Eric Schneidermans"></category><category term="Jeff Kleins"></category><category term="Brooklyn (New York City)"></category><category term="Rockefeller Drug Laws"></category><category term="U.S. Liberal Politics"></category><category term="U.S. State Politics"></category><category term="New York State Politics"></category><category term="Maryland Politics"></category></entry><entry><title>A Party for Pedro</title><link href="http://uspoliticsinfo.com/u.s.-politics/party-pedro-448999a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-06-25T23:16:38Z</updated><author><name>The New York Observer</name></author><id>tag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-06-25:/u.s.-politics/party-pedro-448999a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;


&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A reader emailed to say that &lt;a title="The Bronx" href="/topic/The+Bronx" &gt;Bronx&lt;/a&gt; Democratic County &lt;a title="Jose Rivera" href="/topic/Jose+Rivera" &gt;Chairman Jose Rivera&lt;/a&gt; is hosting a victory party for State &lt;a title="New York State Senate" href="/topic/New+York+State+Senate" &gt;Senate&lt;/a&gt; Democratic challenger &lt;a title="Pedro Espada" href="/topic/Pedro+Espada" &gt;Pedro Espada&lt;/a&gt;, who ousted indicted incumbent &lt;a title="Efrain Gonzalez" href="/topic/Efrain+Gonzalez" &gt;Efrain...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Elections and Voting"></category><category term="Local Politics"></category><category term="Political Parties"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="The Bronx"></category><category term="New York Observer LP"></category><category term="Pedro Espada"></category><category term="New York State Senate"></category><category term="Efrain Gonzalez"></category><category term="Jose Rivera"></category><category term="Michael Benjamin"></category><category term="U.S. Liberal Politics"></category><category term="U.S. State Politics"></category><category term="Maryland Politics"></category></entry><entry><title>Powers' Decision, Gonzales on the Primary, Wasillans for Obama</title><link href="http://uspoliticsinfo.com/u.s.-politics/powers-decision-gonzales-primary-wasillans-obama-448303a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-04-16T13:25:15Z</updated><author><name>The New York Observer</name></author><id>tag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-04-16:/u.s.-politics/powers-decision-gonzales-primary-wasillans-obama-448303a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="George W. Bush" href="/topic/George+W.+Bush" &gt;George W. Bush&lt;/a&gt; dedicated &lt;a title="The Pentagon" href="/topic/The+Pentagon" &gt;the Pentagon&lt;/a&gt; September 11 memorial this morning. [The Page] 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's a ceasefire between &lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a title="John McCain" href="/topic/John+McCain" &gt;John McCain&lt;/a&gt; today. [I.H.T.]
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a title="Westchester County" href="/topic/Westchester+County" &gt;Westchester County&lt;/a&gt; is ta...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Elections and Voting"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="War and Conflict"></category><category term="George W. Bush"></category><category term="Asia"></category><category term="Vietnam"></category><category term="The Pentagon"></category><category term="The Bronx"></category><category term="Southeast Asia"></category><category term="John McCain"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Hanoi"></category><category term="Sarah Palin"></category><category term="New York Observer LP"></category><category term="Gothamist LLC"></category><category term="Wasilla"></category><category term="Politico.com"></category><category term="Working Families Party"></category><category term="Times Herald-Record"></category><category term="Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant"></category><category term="Joe Klein"></category><category term="Michael Crowley"></category><category term="Efrain Gonzales"></category><category term="Westchester County"></category></entry><entry><title>Palin's Trooper Emails, Defending Community Organizers, Clyburn for Powers</title><link href="http://uspoliticsinfo.com/u.s.-politics/palins-trooper-emails-defending-community-organizers-clyburn-powers-441076a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-04-16T13:30:37Z</updated><author><name>The New York Observer</name></author><id>tag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-04-16:/u.s.-politics/palins-trooper-emails-defending-community-organizers-clyburn-powers-441076a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt; According to emails she wrote at the time, &lt;a title="Sarah Palin" href="/topic/Sarah+Palin" &gt;Sarah Palin&lt;/a&gt; expressed at the very least an "intense interest" in the conduct of her brother-in-law, a state trooper who was later fired. [&lt;a title="The Washington Post Company" href="/topic/The+Washington+Post+Company" &gt;Washington Post&lt;/a&gt;]  
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a title="Peggy Noonan" href="/topic/Peggy+Noonan" &gt;Peggy Noonan&lt;/a&gt; says when she was caught on a live mic yesterday she wasn't saying the &lt;a ...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="The Bronx"></category><category term="John McCain"></category><category term="Staten Island"></category><category term="The Washington Post Company"></category><category term="Sarah Palin"></category><category term="New York Observer LP"></category><category term="The Buffalo News Inc."></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Mike McLaughlin"></category><category term="James Clyburn"></category><category term="Peggy Noonan"></category><category term="Steve Harrison"></category><category term="Jack Davis"></category><category term="Nate Silver"></category><category term="Josh Marshall"></category><category term="Joe Biden"></category><category term="Brooklyn (New York City)"></category></entry><entry><title>Economy</title><link href="http://uspoliticsinfo.com/photo/economy-2401549p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-23T06:01:29Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-12-23:/photo/economy-2401549p/</id><summary type="html">In this Dec. 18,  2010, &lt;a title="Maria Johnson Bethune" href="/topic/Maria+Johnson+Bethune" &gt;Maria Johnson Bethune&lt;/a&gt;, center, of the &lt;a title="The Bronx" href="/topic/The+Bronx" &gt;Bronx&lt;/a&gt;, reacts after the cashier told her how much she saved with coupons and discounts, at the &lt;a title="J.C. Penney Co. Inc." href="/topic/J.C.+Penney+Co.+Inc." &gt;J.C. Penny&lt;/a&gt; store at the &lt;a title="Manhattan" href="/topic/Manhattan" &gt;Manhattan&lt;/a&gt; Mall in &lt;a title="New York" href="/topic/New+York" &gt;New York&lt;/a...</summary><category term="United States"></category><category term="New York"></category><category term="Manhattan"></category><category term="The Bronx"></category><category term="J.C. Penney Co. Inc."></category><category term="Maria Johnson Bethune"></category></entry><entry><title>Food and Farm Farm School</title><link href="http://uspoliticsinfo.com/photo/food-farm-farm-school-2375343p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-11-05T01:00:26Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-11-05:/photo/food-farm-farm-school-2375343p/</id><summary type="html">&lt;a title="Karen Washington" href="/topic/Karen+Washington" &gt;Karen Washington&lt;/a&gt; shows the compost soil used at La Finca del Sur, a community farm, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010  in the &lt;a title="The Bronx" href="/topic/The+Bronx" &gt;Bronx&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="New York City" href="/topic/New+York+City" &gt;borough of New York&lt;/a&gt;.  (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)&lt;div id="copyright"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
        Copyright 2010&amp;#160; &lt;a href="http://www.ap.org"&gt;AP News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;...</summary><category term="New York City"></category><category term="The Bronx"></category><category term="Karen Washington"></category></entry><entry><title>Temple Plot</title><link href="http://uspoliticsinfo.com/photo/temple-plot-2365869p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-10-18T13:00:57Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-10-18:/photo/temple-plot-2365869p/</id><summary type="html">FILE - In this Thursday, May 21, 2009 photo, &lt;a title="David Williams" href="/topic/David+Williams" &gt;David Williams&lt;/a&gt;, center, is led by police officers from a federal building in &lt;a title="New York" href="/topic/New+York" &gt;New York&lt;/a&gt; after being arrested on charges related to a bombing plot in the &lt;a title="The Bronx" href="/topic/The+Bronx" &gt;Bronx&lt;/a&gt;. Four men snared in an &lt;a title="Federal Bureau of Investigation" href="/topic/Federal+Bureau+of+Investigation" &gt;FBI&lt;/a&gt; terrorism sting wer...</summary><category term="Judiciary"></category><category term="U.S. Courts"></category><category term="Police"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Federal Bureau of Investigation"></category><category term="New York City"></category><category term="New York"></category><category term="Manhattan"></category><category term="David Williams"></category><category term="The Bronx"></category></entry><entry><title>Gang Hate Crime</title><link href="http://uspoliticsinfo.com/photo/gang-hate-crime-2364604p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-10-15T14:55:29Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-10-15:/photo/gang-hate-crime-2364604p/</id><summary type="html">FILE - In this file photo of  Oct.  9, 2010, &lt;a title="David Rivera" href="/topic/David+Rivera" &gt;David Rivera&lt;/a&gt; is lead out of the Detective Borough &lt;a title="The Bronx" href="/topic/The+Bronx" &gt;Bronx&lt;/a&gt;  in &lt;a title="New York" href="/topic/New+York" &gt;New York&lt;/a&gt;. Rivera is one of eleven suspects under arrest in connection with a horrific anti-gay gang attack on three men in the Bronx. Experts say the behavior, however shocking, isn't surprising in the ultra macho world of gangs, where being...</summary><category term="Social Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="New York"></category><category term="The Bronx"></category><category term="David Rivera"></category><category term="LGBT Issues"></category></entry><entry><title>Nicaraguan Official Killed</title><link href="http://uspoliticsinfo.com/photo/nicaraguan-official-killed-2351179p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-09-29T11:52:28Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-09-29:/photo/nicaraguan-official-killed-2351179p/</id><summary type="html">An elderly woman is allowed to access her apartment as police investigate in her building where Nicaraguan diplomat, &lt;a title="Cesar Mercado" href="/topic/Cesar+Mercado" &gt;Cesar Mercado&lt;/a&gt;, 34, was found dead with his throat slashed in his &lt;a title="New York" href="/topic/New+York" &gt;New York&lt;/a&gt; apartment by his driver, who was picking him up for the &lt;a title="United Nations General Assembly" href="/topic/United+Nations+General+Assembly" &gt;United Nations General Assembly&lt;/a&gt;'s annual meeting, Thu...</summary><category term="Crime"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="International Relations"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="New York City"></category><category term="New York"></category><category term="The Bronx"></category><category term="United Nations General Assembly"></category><category term="New York Crime"></category><category term="Cesar Mercado"></category></entry></feed>
