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NH Haters Rally For Marriage Repeal

The governor has vowed to veto it, polls show the public is against it, and the local GOP doesn’t seem to even want it on their schedule. But that didn’t stop Christian hate groups from rallying yesterday to pressure the bill’s advance. State Rep. David Bates, a Windham Republican, told the crowd there is no truth more self-evident under the …

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Manhattan Rents Soar

It may or may not be a leading sign of economic recovery, but rents in Manhattan are surging back to their all-time high. Manhattan apartment rents continued to soar through the roof in January and are now getting close to hitting historic highs. The average price of a rental apartment was a whopping $3,352, up 5% compared with January, 2011, …

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Life On The Upper East Side

The woman in front of me swished her ankle-length mink dramatically as she denounced the management’s idiocy for only staffing two cashiers. How dare he delay his very important customers! And then she asked me for a pen. So she could write a check for her cigarettes. The cashier had never gotten a personal check. She had to call for …

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