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Buzz-ness is booming: Dunkin' leads pack with 60 chain stores in Bx.
BY TANYANIKA SAMUELS
August 20, 2009
DAILY NEWS

Looks like the Bronx runs on Dunkin'. In its second annual ranking of national retailers in New York City, the Center for an Urban Future found that coffee giant Dunkin' Donuts leads the pack with 60 chain stores in the Bronx.

The study by the New York-based think tank is part of an ongoing effort to track local retail trends as debate grows over whether mom-and-pop stores are getting squeezed out by national chains.

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The Top 5 National Chains in the Bronx
Dunkin' Donuts
 60 stores, up from 49 in 2008
Subway
 46 stores, up from 44
McDonalds
 45 stores, up from 41
Rite Aid
 43 stores, up from42
Baskin-Robbins
 24 stores, down from 26
Bronx Neighborhoods with Most National Chains
Parkchester
 68 stores
Fordham / Bronx Park
 56 stores
Baychester / Coop City
 53 stores
Bronx Neighborhoods with Least National Chains
Riverdale
 4 stores
Hunts Point
 2 stores
Pelham Bay / City Island
 1 store


Buried Secrets: Is Natural Gas Drilling Endangering U.S. Water Supplies?

 BY ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN
November 13, 2008
PRO PUBLICA.ORG

In July, a hydrologist dropped a plastic sampling pipe 300 feet down a water well in rural Sublette County, Wyo., and pulled up a load of brown oily water with a foul smell. Tests showed it contained benzene, a chemical believed to cause aplastic anemia and leukemia, in a concentration 1,500 times the level safe for people.

The results sent shockwaves through the energy industry and state and federal regulatory agencies.

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The "Real" Cindy Sheehan Letter

You may not have seen this letter that Cindy Sheehan wrote from Ireland on Memorial Day. This is not the "polite" letter that appeared in the mainstream press in which Ms. Sheehan talks about being tired and needing to step back. You may not have seen this letter because it is her raw, emotional response to the failures of the Democratic Party, and groups like Move On and True Majority, and publications like The Nation (which are all apologists for the Dems) don't want you to know about it and have to explain their part in this fiasco. Ms. Sheehan knows exactly who failed her and why.

May 28, 2007

An Open Letter to the Democratic Congress

Why I Am Leaving the Democratic Party

By CINDY SHEEHAN
Dublin, Ireland

Dear Democratic Congress,

Hello, my name is Cindy Sheehan and my son Casey Sheehan was killed on April 04, 2004 in Sadr City , Baghdad , Iraq . He was killed when the Republicans still were in control of Congress. Naively, I set off on my tireless campaign calling on Congress to rescind George's authority to wage his war of terror while asking him "for what noble cause" did Casey and thousands of other have to die. Now, with Democrats in control of Congress, I have lost my optimistic naivete; and have become cynically pessimistic as I see you all caving into "Mr. 28%".
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Water Filtration Plant at VCP
The $2.8 billion hole? Bronx water filtration plant under construction drowning in  cost overruns and controversy
By JUAN GONZALEZ
DAILY NEWS COLUMNIST

In the middle of the Bronx's Van Cortlandt Park, a 380,000-square-foot hole in the ground lies at the heart of a growing scandal.

Back in 2004, the city decided to build a water filtration plant in the park, arguing it was cheaper than other locations.

But the Daily News has learned the cost of the project has already skyrocketed from $1.3 billion to $2.1 billion - and that may just be the start.       

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