Tag: Columbus Day
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King's Day
There’s a lot of reverent (no pun intended) talk today about the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King. Bill Maxwell in his 2003 St. Pete Times column even went so far as to castigate those who don’t speak in appropriately respectful tone of the slain civil rights leader. One of the people Maxwell was unhappy…
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Rudy Pooh-Poohs Dem Bigs’ Digs
Sunday, October 26, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and LISA REIN Daily News Staff Writers With a comfortable lead in the polls, Mayor Giuliani yesterday refused to engage in a war of words with Democratic challenger Ruth Messinger — even allowing harsh comments from his predecessor, former Mayor David Dinkins, to go unchallenged. Dinkins, who…