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By Alice Joyce

Environmentalists, lawmakers and concerned citizens gathered around the steps of City Hall June 11 to support legislation that would establish amoratorium on natural gas extraction using hydraulic fracturing for 120 days after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency completes its study of the effects of the controversial process to water quality.

Dear New Yorker,

Please join us at a town hall meeting on Tuesday, August 24^th from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) located at 199 Chambers Street in Manhattan to discuss natural gas drilling.

GOP Blocks Small Business Loan Fund

Jean Hill of Concord Massachusetts was shocked to learn from her grandson that a floating island of plastic roughly the size of Texas floats in the Pacific Ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a 20 million square kilometer mass of plastic toys, pacifiers, toothbrushes, and bottles.

Sunday May 9th (Mother's Day) street closures involved.

On Sunday their will be a charity walk in New York City that will end in Times Square. The walk is in celebration of the 10 Year Anniversary of "O" Magazine. Oprah Winfrey will participate in the walk. The walk will begin at

In December the MTA unveiled a package of service cuts that is a slap in the face to millions of New Yorkers across the five boroughs. Your borough now faces critical cuts in se

Surprising Heart Attack Triggers........
Though heart attacks seem to attack suddenly, there’s usually an event that sets it off, and you can often take steps to bypass such events.

We are beginning to understand that genetically modified corn and soy bean, and the infusion of corn derivitives into foods, feeds, candies, soaps, and disposable utensils (one of the better ideas) are not in our best interest.

President Barack Obama in answering questions from the House Republicans gracefully went strait to the heart of the matter.

A must see... http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/obamagopqa/