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ALBANY—More lower income families would be eligible for the Family Health Plus program by removing depreciation of business assets from income eligibility calculations under legislation passed by the state Senate and sent to the Assembly.
“Programs like Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus have kept hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers healthy by making insurance [...]

It was here that I hooked a leaping bass and passed the rod to my daughters when they were no more than 3 years old. It was the first time that they had held the business end of a fly rod. In his later years, my grandfather often looked on as I fished there, [...]

Sitting at the front counter in the Barrios Auto Driving School on Fifth Avenue, Joseph Barrios called Rudolph W. Giuliani%26#8217;s loss in the Republican contest %26#8220;a shock.%26#8221; He said he was surprised to open the paper and read that Mr. Giuliani would soon drop out of the race.%26#8220;I thought he would keep on going,%26#8221; [...]

Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — New York Giants fan Darren Brindisi
hasnt missed a home game in 17 years and considered splurging
on a trip to Super Bowl XLII in Arizona this weekend. Instead,
he bought a 47-inch Samsung high-definition TV.
[...]

The scale of Giuliani’s collapse from his 20-point lead over his nearest rival last summer to third place in Tuesday’s Florida primary was evident at the beginning of the week.He stopped off at various airfields round Florida for rallies that had long been organised by his staff, intended to be the high point of his [...]

But the people of Havana, it turns out, are as obsessed with real estate as, say, condo-crazy New Yorkers, and have similar dreams of more elbow room, not to mention the desire for hot water, their own toilets and roofs that do not let the rain seep indoors. And although there is no Century [...]

A few hours earlier, New Yorkers watching late-night television news had been told official sources had identified the alleged mastermind as a British citizen called Rashid Rauf. A few hours later, Pakistani authorities were reporting that he had already been captured.Little was known about Rauf at that time, other than that he was from Birmingham, [...]

The withdrawal yesterday of former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson added to the mix, leaving a pool of voters that shows no signs of cleaving en masse to a single remaining hopeful.Former New York City mayor Giuliani continued hammering on economic themes at a banquet-hall rally here this morning, calling for Congress to pass an economic [...]

I expected more of Rudy.Not a better message. It figured that he would snowbird his strategy, taking his New York subtext of blacks-want-to-mug-you-and-I-can-protect-you down to Florida and switching it to Arabs-want-to-kill-you-and-I-can-save-you.And I wasn%26#8217;t surprised that he continued to run on fear and divisiveness, zeroing in on Florida the way he used to target Staten [...]