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		<title>Morning Read: Obamacare A Boon For NY; Garodnick Member Item Sunshine; More Trouble For Hynes</title>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>New York is set to receive another $2.3 billion in <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/hot_in_arm_for_ny_64v9GMxl5TXVI0ZiYIAmJK">extra Medicaid dollars thanks to the Supreme Court's decision. </a></p>
<p>Mike Long: “If the state <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/nyregion/new-york-conservative-party-extends-influence-at-polls-and-in-capital.html?ref=nyregion">Republican Party was where the national party is,</a> we’d be out of business.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/city-councilman-daniel-garodnick-transparency-council-member-items-article-1.1104066#ixzz1zBLUfe1h">In an effort to increase transparency of the member item process</a>, Dan Garodnick is posting copies of all the letters pleading for cash he received and all the meetings his office had with lobbyists and advocates seeking funding.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/nyregion/after-rangel-victory-sluggish-pace-of-final-tally-is-questioned.html?ref=nyregion">Ydanis Rodriguez held a rally calling on the Board of Election</a>s to explain why the vote counting in the Rangel/Espaillat race was going so slowly.<!--more--></p>
<p>Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304058404577495190806005950.html?mod=WSJ_NY_MIDDLELEADNewsCollection">are trying to wrest control of the 9/11 Memorial</a> from Mike Bloomberg and the dispute has led to the stalling out of construction around the site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mike_rips_frisk_ruling_insanity_oxQBqPLlyLPyb7L8AtHyiP">Mike Bloomberg blasted the judges</a> who allowed a 14-year-old with a rap sheet caught carrying a loaded gun to walk free.</p>
<p>The City Council voted to override <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/city-council-votes-override-mayor-bloomberg-veto-new-york-city-living-wage-bill-article-1.1104463">Mayor Bloomberg's veto of living wage laws. </a></p>
<p>The City Council approved a new zoning <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/nyregion/city-council-limits-size-of-banks-on-upper-west-side.html?ref=nyregion">resolution to limit the size of big bank</a>s on major thoroughfares.</p>
<p>Due to the state's new property tax cap, <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Insolvency-threat-to-school-districts-3671924.php">a third of school districts around New York</a> are facing financial insolvency.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/nyregion/new-york-citys-taxi-system-complies-with-disabilities-law-panel-rules.html?ref=nyregion">A federal appeals court panel ruled that New York City’s taxi system</a> complied with federal disabilities law, rebuffing a class-action suit brought by advocates for disabled passengers that had threatened to jumble an already uncertain future for the city’s taxicabs, Matt Flegenheimer reports.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/nyregion/new-york-police-department-manipulates-crime-reports-study-finds.html?_r=1&amp;ref=nyregion">A new survey of retired police officers</a> reveals that that they often manipulated statistics to artificially reduce crime rates.</p>
<p>Joe Hynes is receiving more scrutiny for <a href="http://politicker.com/2012/06/anthony-weiner-on-the-politics-and-future-of-the-supreme-courts-health-care-decision/">his handling of abuse cases. </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/nyregion/mccarren-pool-in-brooklyn-reopens-after-28-years.html?ref=nyregion">At the re-opening of McCarren Pool,</a> one resident said, "Williamsburg is famously hipsterish, sneering and ironic, but there’s nothing ironic about this.”</p>
<p>The GOP thinks the<a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/78007.html"> Supreme Court's health care ruling</a> will help them win down ballot races.</p>
<p>Bobby Jindal vowed to <a href="http://gop12.thehill.com/2012/06/jindal-were-not-implementing-obamacare.html">keep Obamacare out of Louisiana. </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fiw-hiltzik-20120628,0,6512059.column">Individual components of the law remain overwhelmingly popular,</a> even if the law itself is not: "Blame for this morbid condition belongs to the Democrats who passed the measure and promptly ran away from their own achievement as though they had invented a virus, not a vaccine, Michael Hiltzik writes.</p>
<p>Congress is poised to vote on <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HIGHWAYS_STUDENT_LOANS?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">a massive transportation and student loan bill. </a></p>
<p>Adam Liptak on what <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/us/politics/a-defining-move-for-chief-justice-roberts.html?_r=1">was motivating John Roberts.</a></p>
<p>The court decided that states <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/29/news/economy/health-care-medicaid/index.htm">can opt out of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion program,</a> since the court said the federal government can't penalize them by withholding all Medicaid funding, meaning that the poorest may still not be covered.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New York is set to receive another $2.3 billion in <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/hot_in_arm_for_ny_64v9GMxl5TXVI0ZiYIAmJK">extra Medicaid dollars thanks to the Supreme Court's decision. </a></p>
<p>Mike Long: “If the state <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/nyregion/new-york-conservative-party-extends-influence-at-polls-and-in-capital.html?ref=nyregion">Republican Party was where the national party is,</a> we’d be out of business.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/city-councilman-daniel-garodnick-transparency-council-member-items-article-1.1104066#ixzz1zBLUfe1h">In an effort to increase transparency of the member item process</a>, Dan Garodnick is posting copies of all the letters pleading for cash he received and all the meetings his office had with lobbyists and advocates seeking funding.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/nyregion/after-rangel-victory-sluggish-pace-of-final-tally-is-questioned.html?ref=nyregion">Ydanis Rodriguez held a rally calling on the Board of Election</a>s to explain why the vote counting in the Rangel/Espaillat race was going so slowly.<!--more--></p>
<p>Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304058404577495190806005950.html?mod=WSJ_NY_MIDDLELEADNewsCollection">are trying to wrest control of the 9/11 Memorial</a> from Mike Bloomberg and the dispute has led to the stalling out of construction around the site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mike_rips_frisk_ruling_insanity_oxQBqPLlyLPyb7L8AtHyiP">Mike Bloomberg blasted the judges</a> who allowed a 14-year-old with a rap sheet caught carrying a loaded gun to walk free.</p>
<p>The City Council voted to override <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/city-council-votes-override-mayor-bloomberg-veto-new-york-city-living-wage-bill-article-1.1104463">Mayor Bloomberg's veto of living wage laws. </a></p>
<p>The City Council approved a new zoning <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/nyregion/city-council-limits-size-of-banks-on-upper-west-side.html?ref=nyregion">resolution to limit the size of big bank</a>s on major thoroughfares.</p>
<p>Due to the state's new property tax cap, <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Insolvency-threat-to-school-districts-3671924.php">a third of school districts around New York</a> are facing financial insolvency.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/nyregion/new-york-citys-taxi-system-complies-with-disabilities-law-panel-rules.html?ref=nyregion">A federal appeals court panel ruled that New York City’s taxi system</a> complied with federal disabilities law, rebuffing a class-action suit brought by advocates for disabled passengers that had threatened to jumble an already uncertain future for the city’s taxicabs, Matt Flegenheimer reports.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/nyregion/new-york-police-department-manipulates-crime-reports-study-finds.html?_r=1&amp;ref=nyregion">A new survey of retired police officers</a> reveals that that they often manipulated statistics to artificially reduce crime rates.</p>
<p>Joe Hynes is receiving more scrutiny for <a href="http://politicker.com/2012/06/anthony-weiner-on-the-politics-and-future-of-the-supreme-courts-health-care-decision/">his handling of abuse cases. </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/nyregion/mccarren-pool-in-brooklyn-reopens-after-28-years.html?ref=nyregion">At the re-opening of McCarren Pool,</a> one resident said, "Williamsburg is famously hipsterish, sneering and ironic, but there’s nothing ironic about this.”</p>
<p>The GOP thinks the<a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/78007.html"> Supreme Court's health care ruling</a> will help them win down ballot races.</p>
<p>Bobby Jindal vowed to <a href="http://gop12.thehill.com/2012/06/jindal-were-not-implementing-obamacare.html">keep Obamacare out of Louisiana. </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fiw-hiltzik-20120628,0,6512059.column">Individual components of the law remain overwhelmingly popular,</a> even if the law itself is not: "Blame for this morbid condition belongs to the Democrats who passed the measure and promptly ran away from their own achievement as though they had invented a virus, not a vaccine, Michael Hiltzik writes.</p>
<p>Congress is poised to vote on <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HIGHWAYS_STUDENT_LOANS?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">a massive transportation and student loan bill. </a></p>
<p>Adam Liptak on what <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/us/politics/a-defining-move-for-chief-justice-roberts.html?_r=1">was motivating John Roberts.</a></p>
<p>The court decided that states <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/29/news/economy/health-care-medicaid/index.htm">can opt out of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion program,</a> since the court said the federal government can't penalize them by withholding all Medicaid funding, meaning that the poorest may still not be covered.</p>
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