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What A Private Ambulance in NYC Can Offer
Dec 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Emergencies are always a tough situation to be in for many reasons. Aside from the anxiety about the thought of a person in pain, there is always the fear for someone’s life. Nowadays, a person act...
Town of Middle Village Christmas Tree Lighting
Dec 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Middle Village Chamber of Commerce, Middle Village Kiwanis Club and Community United Methodist Church invite you to attend TOWN OF MIDDLE VILLAGE CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING. Join in Christmas Carols, ...
Senior Living & Care... What To Do With So Many Choices? What Does It All Mean?
Dec 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: StefansLawGroup As we age we will find ourselves either making or assisting in complex and important decisions about where we, a family member or even a friend should be living. Changes in ...
Holiday Coat Drive
Dec 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
Holiday Coat Drive   Nov. 18th - Dec. 15th, 2013 Do you have coats that you don't need anymore?  Donate Them! Winter is here and there are people in our community who could use a nice warm coat.  D...
Maspeth Indoor Flea Market
Dec 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
INDOOR FLEA MARKET!!!! Saturday, Dec. 7th  Doors open @ 9AM Indoor flea market featuring gifts for Christmas and more.  Handbags, jewelry, antiques, kids clothes, household items, make-up, fragranc...
Money Saving Winter Roofing Tips- Spot Out Faulty Gutters Yourself
Nov 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 59 59 recommendations | email to a friend
A good roof is perhaps one of the most important investments a homeowner can make. Any good investment requires good maintenance. One of the most crucial factors in upholding a roofing system is th...
St. Margaret's Boy Scout Troop 119
Nov 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 64 64 recommendations | email to a friend
St. Margaret's Boy Scout Troop 119 is almost sixty-nine years old and in the year 2015 we will be celebrating our 70th birthday making us one of the oldest Boy Scout Troops in New York City. Howeve...
Breakfast with St. Nick
Nov 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 64 64 recommendations | email to a friend
St. Stanislaus Kostka Home School Association invites you to attend Breakfast with St. Nick .  Saturday, December 15th  9AM-1PM.  St. Stan's Auditorium, 61-17 Grand Avenue, Maspeth, NY Children - $...
The Penalties for Employment Discrimination
Nov 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 139 139 recommendations | email to a friend
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed another suit for employment discrimination which could end up costing the employer hundreds of thousands of dollars.  The suit file...
This Month in Queens Real Estate: November 2013
Nov 11, 2013 | 4 4 comments | 143 143 recommendations | email to a friend
Queens NY Real Estate Market Update The seasonally adjusted rate of Queens home sales increased again in October and continued to increase when compared to year-ago levels, with October marking the...

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From posting on Facebook to tendering a resignation
If this isn't a cautionary tale about Facebook, we don't know what is. For about the past year, Pol Position has heard nothing but, “you must get on Facebook” or “please get on Facebook so we can k...
Jul 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Wordplay
Pol Position was once riding in the car listening to an interview with a longtime radio baseball announcer, who was complaining of a strange phenomenon in the world of baseball advertising and the ...
Jul 21, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dropping the "N" words like A bombs
Two New York City politicians waded into some choppy waters this past week, uttering a couple of words that are sure to create backlash for any public figure. First, the mayor likened that state se...
Jul 21, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pol walks right into a quorum
Well, the stalemate in Albany is finally over, which means that our hardworking state senators can get back to the business of doling out pork items to their loyal constituents, conducting backroom...
Jul 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 39 39 recommendations | email to a friend
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I'm going to huff, and I'm going to puff...
There's a battle of aesthetics brewing down at City Hall between the current mayor and the man who wants to take his place. Recently, an artist named Richard Woods did a little renovating on some s...
Jul 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 38 38 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Reyna Channel: councilwoman all over the web
It's been a busy past few weeks for Councilwoman Diana Reyna on YouTube. First, we got wind of a clip from last October of Reyna at a Citizens Union panel on term limits. In the nine-minute video, ...
Jul 07, 2009 | 2 2 comments | 43 43 recommendations | email to a friend
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When it Torains, it pours
Apparently, Clear Channel believes in the old adage that you keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. The big shots over at the communications conglomerate, which owns hundreds of radio st...
Jun 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend
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Viral Videos: Watching the Web
When we first started Pol Position years ago, all of this newfangled technology - what with the blogs and the Facebooks and the Twitters and such – didn’t exist yet. No, back when we started Pol Po...
Jun 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 43 43 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Death of the Big Check?
While we are all for embracing new technology, there is one thing that Pol Position can never let go of, no matter how cheeky or outdated it may seem or become: The Big Check. Congressman Joseph Cr...
Jun 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 51 51 recommendations | email to a friend
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Prodigal Son returns to the Democrats
It’s always better to regret something you have done, then to regret something you haven’t done, or so Pol Position has been told. (We’ve really, really regretted many, many things that we have don...
Jun 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 43 43 recommendations | email to a friend
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One flew over the coup-coup’s nest
If this is dysfunction, we don’t want to be functional! New York State politics took an unexpected turn for the weird Monday, even by Albany standards. Two State Senators, Hiram Monserrate from Que...
Jun 10, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 42 42 recommendations | email to a friend
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Prince Harry backs down
It’s not often that Pol Position gets to cover the world of international politics, so when we heard that Prince Harry would be in town on an official visit, and moreover he would be playing in a c...
Jun 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 46 46 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Choe-Choe train gets a-rollin'
Astute readers of Pol Position might remember that last week we brought you the story of S.J. Jung, a candidate for the 20th District City Council seat being vacated by John Liu, and Jung’s impress...
Jun 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 51 51 recommendations | email to a friend
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A Friendly Meeting Between Friends
They say that politics makes for some strange bedfellows, and what we love about Memorial Day is that those bedfellows usually make public appearances in the street, where they have to make nice an...
May 27, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
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Grapevine Says Ognibene is Back in the 30th
Former Middle Village Republican councilman Tom Ognibene hasn't had enough? After being term-limited out of the City Council in 2001 and losing in a special election for the seat in June 2008, word...
May 05, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 46 46 recommendations | email to a friend
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All Syrian chemical weapons munitions destroyed
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The international chemical weapons watchdog says it has verified the destruction of all of Syria's unfilled munitions — another milestone along the road to eradicating President Bashar Assad's chemical weapons program by mid-2014.
2013-12-06 11:48:26 -0500
Stocks jump after strong jobs report

Trader Glenn Kessler, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. The stock market is up sharply after the U.S. government reported a big increase in hiring last month. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK (AP) — Good news was finally good news for the stock market on Friday.


2013-12-06 12:37:29 -0500
Defending champion Spain gets repeat of 2010 final

A soldier secures the entrance of the draw hall one day before the draw for the 2014 soccer World Cup in Costa do Sauipe near Salvador, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Victor Caivano)COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil (AP) — Defending champion Spain will play its opening World Cup game against the Netherlands, a repeat of the ill-tempered 2010 final.


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