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		<title>Update: Gov Nixes Mayor&#8217;s Guantanamo Deal</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/02/26/update-gov-nixes-mayors-guantanamo-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Maribeth Cosgove&#8217;s offer to the Obama administration to accept Guantanamo detainees [Our City to Become the Next Guantanamo?, 2.23] has been rescinded by an angry state governor&#8217;s office. In a press release, Governor Allen (D) chastized Cosgrove for her rashness, and reminded her that the Ostahanoc River Maximum Security Prison is a federal, not a municipal, facility. &#8220;Mayor Cosgrove seriously overstepped her jurisdiction in her offer to accept Guantanamo Bay detainees,&#8221; said the governor&#8217;s press release. &#8220;We here at the state level apologize to President Obama for having wasted his time, and will see to it that nothing like this ever happens again.&#8221; Cosgrove (R) quickly issued a rebuttal to the governor&#8217;s letter. &#8220;It seems as if our governor has failed to show the fortitude needed by all Americans during these difficult times,&#8221; said Cosgrove via e-mail to local media outlets. &#8220;I am ashamed that our state leadership has failed us, in stubbornly blocking us from fulfilling our patriotic duty.&#8221; Despite Mayor Cosgrove&#8217;s rhetoric, a member of her staff (who asked not to be named) suggests that the mayor&#8217;s offer was made less out of a sense of duty, and more out of a sense of desperation. &#8220;This was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our City to Become the Next Guantanamo?</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/02/23/our-city-to-become-the-next-guantanamo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Maribeth Cosgrove held a press conference this morning to publicly express the city&#8217;s willingness to accept detainees from Guantanamo Bay into our prison system, making us the first city in the U.S. to do so. Ever since President Obama signed an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay, a holding facility for so-called &#8220;enemy combatants,&#8221; the administration has had difficulty finding anyone, foreign or domestic, willing to take on the prisoners. Mayor Cosgrove, apparently, heard opportunity knocking. &#8220;Now is the  time for all of us in the city to take ownership of our new president&#8217;s call for a new Era of Responsibility,&#8221; declared Mayor Cosgrove. &#8220;Difficult decisions and sacrifices must be made, and I am proud to say that our city is unafraid to make them.&#8221; The mayor&#8217;s announcement came as a shock to Earl Stiner, warden of the Ostahanoc River Maximum Security Prison. Stiner claims that neither the mayor nor any of her staff consulted with him prior to the declaration, in spite of the fact that his prison was specifically named as one willing to take on Gitmo detainees. However, after some consideration, Stiner agrees he is up to the challenge. &#8220;For over 50 years now the ORMSP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Impes, &#8220;Leapin&#8217; Lepean,&#8221; Debtors Prison</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/01/23/friday-facts-impes-leapin-lepean-debtors-prison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Mayor Cosgrove is expected to deliver to City Council on Monday her administration&#8217;s plan to make up the city&#8217;s now $728 million five-year deficit. :: Expected remedies: Rec Center  and library cutbacks, trash collection, city vehicle usage cuts, wage rollbacks, hiring freeze. :: The plaque on the Trade and Securities Building (43rd Ave and Roosevelt) remembers investor Tom Lepean, who on October 28, 1929, had made the decision to sell his sizable portfolio of stock and retire to a secluded wooded area. Although Lepean had been inspired by the book Walden, several scorned investors the following day – suspicious of Lepean’s timing &#8211; accused him of either benefitting from inside information of the coming stock market crash, or possibly engineering it. The legend of Lepean’s perspicacity exceeded public temperament, and the once-lucky investor was pushed out a 16th story window by a stenographic pool secretary whose father had been ruined in the Crash. :: Fast-Cash Plus, a national chain specializing in your-auto-title-for-easy-cash swaps, has opened an outlet in the Crestmoor Shopping Plaza, at 35th and Wallace Streets. That plot of land was the location of Munson Prison until 1938, which contained a sizable debtors prison wing. :: Alfred Garret, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amandour Prison&#8217;s Final Inmate</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/02/26/amandour-prisons-final-inmate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1980 the only remaining state correctional facility within the city limits &#8211; Amandour Prison &#8211; closed its heavy iron door for last time. The order to shut down the facility, once home to as many as 494 inmates, actually occurred in 1951. While it is not surprising for the wheels of justice – or the wheels of bureaucracy – to grind slowly, in this case neither the State Department of Corrections nor any combination of city government officials was responsible the long delay. If any person held the key (so to speak) to the 37-year gap between decision and action, it is former Judge Marvin Kristolich. But the ultimate determining factor in the long, slow decline, and eventual demise of Amandour Prison was the remarkable constitution of its final inmate, John Stuart Powell. Powell was the principal suspect in the sensational murder of Charles Kerry O’Keefe, Commissioner of Police, in August 1949. In the summer of 1950, with the still-unsolved case becoming an ongoing embarrassment for the police department, interim Police Chief Donald Connolly announced the apprehension of a suspect connected to the homicide by a barely credible trail of conjecture and circumstantial evidence. That suspect turned out to [...]]]></description>
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