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Quinnipiac University releases its poll on Mike Bloomberg at City Hall.

The Mayor dedicates the new headquarters of the American Red Cross in Greater New York at 520 West 49th Street.

Habitat for Humanity NYC demonstrates Integrated Concrete Forms - a new green building material used for Habitat homes in Brooklyn - in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Queens Borough President Helen Marshall releases a health care analysis of Queens at Queens Borough Hall.

The Harlem River Park renovation breaks ground at Lexington Avenue and 129th Street.

Betsy Gotbaum releases e-mails she has received from public school parents calling for an end to the cell phone ban on the steps of City Hall.

The Council Committee on Consumer Affairs votes on a resolution calling on the State Public Service Commission to approve the use of "smart meters" in residential apartments at 250 Broadway.

The United Nations Foundation launches a campaign to combat malaria.

Random House hosts a discussion with David McCullough at their headquarters.

Manhattan's Community Board 8 holds a meeting for its Second Avenue Subway Task Force at the Hunter College School of Social Work.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan hosts a roundtable on public safety issues with Latino leaders at his office.

John Edwards signs copies of his book "Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives" at the 82nd Street Barnes & Noble.

Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin is honored at the Concord Coalition's 13th Annual Economic Patriots Dinner at the Pierre Hotel.

—Nicole Brydson

COLLEEN: Danny and I are kind, mild-mannered sorts who leave our change in tip jars, give money to the Red Cross and return phones we find in cabs, three to date. But when we engage in our favorite wedding planning task, watching sample wedding DVD's from videographers, something about it brings a dormant mean-spiritedness front and center.

Last night, our first DVD started strong: We had some great laughs at a rabbi, who resembled a homeless man. We laughed at an aging hippie groom with ponytail.

When the action flagged we'd resort to reliving our past glories, like the "Ballad of Stacy and Mike," set in Westhampton, an epic in doggerel verse we composed in honor of a couple whose self-congratulatory gusto had to be addressed. Our poem tells every detail of the happy couple's courtship: from meeting over apple martinis at the Drift Inn in Quogue followed by fellatio that night, to spending every weekend at each other's summer shares, to getting a summer share together! To finally--the big day.

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The Syracuse Post-Standard has an interesting glimpse today at how Albany works, through Governor Pataki's announcement of a $2.5 million hurricane-relief grant to the Red Cross: "The $2.5 million was readily available partly as a result of Albany lobbying by a politically connected firm hired by the Red Cross."  read more »

A South Carolina daily, The State, finally unearthed the amount that Rudy's $100,000 South Carolina benefit speech actually raised: $40,000.

So after Rudy's own contribution, he got $80,000 and the Red Cross got $60,000.  read more »

We see why the South Carolina Hospital Association was a bit reluctant to release their fundraising number to us.

As the owner of a business just blocks from ground zero, I was comforted to hear, in the dark hours  read more »

Ten days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center,the streets of Tribeca were filled wit  read more »

Some of New York'stop medical officials fear that a last-ditch effort to avert a catastrophic  read more »

Over the past year New Yorkers have heard dire predictions about the millennium-from computer meltdo  read more »