City Must Offer Buy-Outs
      To The Editor: Now that municipal unions have agreed with the city on a funding plan to save health benefits and forestall layoffs by three months, it's time for a full exploration of long-term solutions to the budget shortfall.
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Mayor Fiddles, FDNY Burns
      To The Editor: With a characteristic contempt for the electorate that would make an ancient Roman Emperor recoil in shock, Mayor Bloomberg will imminently close four more fire companies. By the end of the year, numerous others throughout the city will also be closed according to his plan. In the past, such enervating behavior would have been political suicide.
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Improve Police Tactics
      To The Editor: Whatever law-enforcement source said that off-duty cop Omar Edwards was not wearing an NYPD-mandated holster when he was fatally shot by another police officer was clearly using selective, self-serving criticism.
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TWU Building Sale a Boon
      To The Editor: Just days ago, on the morning of Tuesday, May 26th, in a Transport Workers Union Local 100 lighting quarters at Canal St., John Samuelsen, the head of a dissident slate vying for power in TWU Local 100's upcoming election, admitted in public what our union's leadership, informed TWU members, and the U.S. Department of Labor have been saying all along.
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TWU's Perfect Match
      To The Editor: I am writing to correct a typo in your For the Record column (5/29/09) about Curtis Tate's unwillingness to debate John Samuelsen during the campaign for President of TWU Local 100 after Barry Roberts refused to debate Toussaint and others 2½ years ago.
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