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Events for March 23, 2007

8:15 a.m. Channel Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21 will sponsor the second annual Celebration of Teaching & Learning symposium at Pier 94, 12th Avenue at 55th Street.

8:30 a.m. The Murphy Institute for Labor, Community, and Policy Studies and the New Labor Forum holds a breakfast forum featuring Jason Furman, director of The Hamilton Project, and Mark Levinson, senior fellow of The Economic Policy Institute, and moderated by Ed Ott, executive director of the New York City Labor Council, at the The Murphy Institute for Labor, Community, and Policy Studies at CUNY, 25 West 43rd Street. 10 a.m. The Tri-Level Task Force on Police Reform holds a hearing on police procedures featuring speakers Joseph Guzman, Trent Benefield and lawyer Sanford Rubenstein at Medgar Evers College, 1650 Bedford Avenue, in Brooklyn.  read more »

The Round-Up: Friday

  • Building-code violations as a political tool.
  • [NY Times]
  • Middle-class housing help part of Quinn's plan.
  • [NY Times]
  • Report: Home prices fall in half of nation's bigger markets.
  • [NY Times]
  • New law to expose shady city engineers, architects.
  • [NY Post]
  • Couple gets legal boost in booting East Village tenants.
  • [Daily News]
  • Rent-regulated landlords fret changes in state Senate.
  • [NY Sun]
  • Lawsuit over Salvation Army building sales.
  • [NY Sun]

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