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The New York state legislature is set to vote this week on a bill that would ban apartment sublets that last less than a month, which if passed would have a significant impact on online vacation rental services like AirBnB, Roomorama, HomeAway, and even classifieds behemoth Craigslist.
In recent years, there’s been a surge in popularity [...]

Next week you might see cameras and film crews at some of your favorite spots. Director Stephen Gyllenhaal – yes, Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal’s dad – will be filming scenes for the movie “Grassroots,” a story about Grant Cogswell’s bid for City Council seat number 8 in 2001.
The film is based on “Zioncheck for President,” [...]

It was a beautiful moment when Barack Obama, with his election, drew the left and right together in one powerful conviction: that he was a raging lefty. It didn’t last long, of course. For the right, every day now brings exhilarating proof of his secret socialist mission; for the left, each day brings more disillusion: [...]

American democracy is nothing if not responsive, and on the evidence of the current primary season the frustrated American voter is demanding a transfusion of new political blood. The results have been volatile, and sometimes bewildering, but overall the elections are throwing up more candidates who are refreshingly unconventional.
ake California, where the Republican Party—the party [...]

Female candidates may be poised for a better-than-average general election season this year after women walked away with some of the top wins in this week’s primaries, experts who study women in politics say.
Women candidates won in key states Tuesday, including in South Carolina, where Republican state lawmaker Nikki Haley advanced to a runoff for [...]


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