Thursday’s Links Worth Following

• Rent Is Too Damn High Party Candidate Not A Member Of Rent Is Too Damn High Party
  Debate-stealing candidate Jimmy McMillan has become synonymous with the Rent is Too Damn High Party – but that doesn’t mean he actually belongs to it.
• The Harvard Club: 11,000 Members, But Not Eliot Spitzer
  It’s another indignity for hooker happy ex-governor Eliot Spitzer: Rejection from the tony Harvard Club in New York City
• How the Facebook news feed works – Lost Remote
  One of the big secrets of Facebook is how the company surfaces stories in your news feed, both in the “top news” and “most recent” tabs. You may have 10,000 fans, for example, but that doesn’t mean that everyone will see what you’re publishing.
• Koch to fellow Dems: Dump Assembly Speaker Silver
  Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch says his fellow Democrats should dump one of their leaders, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
• Mayo Clinic summit seeks to cut hockey concussions – Times Union
  When in doubt, sit them out. That mantra was repeated over and over this week during a two-day summit on hockey concussions at the Mayo Clinic, where more than 250 doctors, experts and hockey officials discussed ways to cut down on concussions, especially in youth hockey.
• Former owners of Oswego Speedway file for bankruptcy
  Two corporations that formerly controlled Oswego Speedway have filed for bankruptcy. Oswego Amusements and GDR Enterprises are seeking a Chapter 7 bankruptcy — liquidating assets to pay creditors.
• Gay marriage foes: NY law blocks free speech right
  An anti-gay marriage group is heading to court seeking the right to run ads in New York’s governor’s race without complying with election law..
• DeWitt replaces roof, lights and plans solar panels to try to cut energy bill in half
  So far, 750 light fixtures replaced in town of DeWitt buildings. Annual savings expected to be $12,000.
• Toyota recalling 1.53 million cars globally
  Toyota Motor Corp. says it is recalling 1.53 million Lexus, Avalon and other models.
• J-E group seeks to void deal
  A new chapter of the Jordan-Elbridge school district saga — this one involving a new Article 78 proceeding against the board of education — unfolded at Wednesday’s board meeting.
• Unions Drop $200K On Ads In Support Of Vulnerable Senate Dems
  With less than two weeks left in the election, three vulnerable state senators—Brian Foley, Darrel Aubertine and David Valesky—are receiving a much-needed boost from several of the state’s largest unions in the form of a $200,000 independent ad buy.
• In Salina, Carl Paladino scoffs at poll showing him trailing in governor’s race, citing his primary win
  As his campaign sputters, Paladino says the media has misunderstood him but his supporters have not.
• Economic View – Confronting Income Inequality – NYTimes.com
  Most troubling, all significant income growth has been concentrated at the top of the scale. The share of total income going to the top 1 percent of earners, which stood at 8.9 percent in 1976, rose to 23.5 percent by 2007, but during the same period, the average inflation-adjusted hourly wage declined by more than 7 percent.
• In courtroom twist, juror now a witness | cincinnati.com | nky.com
  In a stunning twist to a Tuesday Hamilton County jury trial, Najah Johnson-Riddle went from juror to witness.
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission judge says colleague biased against complainants
  “On Judge Levine’s first week on the job, nearly twenty years ago, he came into my office and stated that he had promised Wendy Gramm, then Chairwoman of the Commission, that we would never rule in a complainant’s favor,” Painter wrote. “A review of his rulings will confirm that he fulfilled his vow,” Painter wrote.

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