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• Fredric U. Dicker

  Weak GOP threat to Andy prez shot

  A new poll from a respected Republican firm has senior Democrats worried that Gov. Cuomo is headed...  

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• Peggy Noonan

  A sermon in humility

  It is disquieting, the resignation of the pope. “We are in uncharted territory,” said a historian...  

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• John Crudele

  Shop your refi loan

  Dear John: I think you missed a point last week in advising the woman in “refi hell.” Your answer...  

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• Terry Keenan

  Prez needs to gas up America

  Presidents Day weekend isn’t typically a time to hear a lot of talk about soaring gas prices. Such...  

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• Jonathon M. Trugman

  A study in ‘social’ reforms

  Many speak idyllically about socialism, but few of its advocates in this country have had to live...  

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  City spent $20M getting kids to school during bus strike

  The city spent roughly $20.6 million in transit cards, taxis and gas mileage to get tens of thousands of stranded students to school during the monthlong bus strike, but some still didn't get there at all, schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said...   1:59 PM
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  Queens senator demands anger management for Baldwin after alleged racist rant

  A Queens lawmaker today asked TV and movie producers to steer clear of raging actor Alec Baldwin until the tantrum-prone thespian seeks counseling for anger management. State Sen. Malcolm Smith was incensed after learning that Baldwin allegedly...   12:53 PM
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  MTA, workers' union contract negotiations stalled for past 3 months

  The MTA and its largest workers’ union haven’t been to the bargaining table in over three months, with each side blaming the other for the breakdown in talks.  The 35,000-member strong Transport Workers Union Local 100 — which has been without a...   12:53 PM
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  Several boats burn at Weehawken dock

   Multiple boats were on fire on the Weehawken waterfront on Monday morning. The fire had gone to two alarms by 7 a.m. at the Lincoln Harbor Yacht Club on Harbor Boulevard. Fox 5 News reported that at least three boats were burning. Thick, black...   10:08 AM
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  Feds’ Sandy fiasco

  The feds weren’t ready to handle even the most basic needs of their own workers as Hurricane Sandy walloped the region last fall, records obtained by The Post reveal.  Government officials requested emergency-communication equipment as the storm...   3:16 AM

• ’Cane brings drivers a ticket drought

  For several weeks, you could have parked your wheels anywhere in New York with little fear of getting a ticket. Hurricane Sandy washed away New York’s...   3:59 AM
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  Scoop the nuts

  The city is making a major push to sweep the streets of dangerous, mentally ill New Yorkers — and has even compiled a most-wanted list, The Post has learned. The measure follows a pair of high-profile subway-shove fatalities from December allegedly...   3:52 AM
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  Alec fast & slur-ious

  Actor Alec Baldwin allegedly called a black Post photographer a racial epithet, a "crackhead" and a "drug dealer" during a confrontation on an East Village street yesterday morning, prompting police to intervene. Baldwin had first been approached by...   12:53 PM
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  Pope hope is dope

  Anyone who believes Timothy Cardinal Dolan has a chance of becoming the next pope is smoking funny cigarettes — so says Dolan. At St. Patrick’s Cathedral yesterday, Dolan was asked about rumors that he would be named the first American pope when the...   3:03 AM
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  Weak GOP threat to Andy prez shot

  A new poll from a respected Republican firm has senior Democrats worried that Gov. Cuomo is headed for a massive re-election victory next year — which could damage his chances to run for president in the process. The poll, which was being intensely...   9:56 AM

• Mary J.’s ‘rhythm and due$’

  The financial hits just keep coming for R&B star Mary J. Blige. The Grammy winner — already up to her eyeballs in debt — has been socked with a $901...   4:10 AM
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  Campaign at your own ‘frisk’

  Democrats vying to succeed Mayor Bloomberg can expect their views toward his stop-and-frisk policy to be a key campaign issue this year, according to the leader of the nation’s most influential civil-rights group. NAACP President Benjamin Jealous...   3:59 AM

• Cabby mows down crowd

  Seven people were injured on the West Side when a cabby plowed into a vehicle, jumped a curb and hit a small crowd of people near a food cart, cops and...   2:51 AM
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  Hey, NYC – what’s the pig deal?

  A state senator is rallying to get the city to overturn a longstanding law forbidding New Yorkers from having cuddly little pigs as pets — or at least to quit slapping those who do with summonses. “People die on [illegal] construction sites . . ....   10:06 AM

• Brake on bike tix

  The number of rogue cyclists ticketed for traffic infractions in 2012 dropped by nearly 20 percent from the year before, despite growing numbers of...   3:59 AM
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  NJ pol hooker snooker

  The FBI is investigating claims that New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez romped with underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic, but so far hasn’t found any evidence, reports say.  Federal agents recently traveled there to examine a tipster’s claim...   4:35 AM
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  Forest Whitaker claims he was falsely accused of shoplifting, frisked at Manhattan deli

  Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker said he was falsely accused of shoplifting inside a Manhattan deli — and even frisked by a suspicious employee. Whitaker, who won an Oscar for his role in 2006’s “The Last King of Scotland,” said he was...  
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  Ed Koch's secret diary bares battle with Army Jew-haters: 'I'm glad I fought'

  When Edward I. Koch was just a lanky 19-year-old Army draftee from The Bronx marching off to World War II, his mother, Joyce, handed him a gift. It was a new, leather-bound, gold-leafed diary in which she inscribed: “God bless you, my son.” Private...   11:51 AM
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  Mayor-hopeful ‘string pulling’

  Mayoral candidate and former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión Jr. tried to pull strings in the Democratic Party to get his wife a judgeship before ditching the party, sources told The Post.  Carrión, 51, solicited a Civil Court nomination for...   4:21 AM
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  'Historic' baseballs pulled from auction over authenticity doubts

  A major auctioneer tossed a pair of purportedly historic baseballs from a New York City auction yesterday after an upstate memorabilia collector called them out as fakes. A baseball supposedly signed by Yankee great Lou Gehrig in the 1930s and...   6:27 AM
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  Henry Kravis still fighting with vineyard owner over Jasper Johns paintings

  These two Manhattan fat cats have pettiness down to a fine art. Manhattan billionaire Henry Kravis finally gained custody on Jan. 30 of three abstract Jasper Johns paintings he co-owns with an ex- pal, new court papers say. Last month, Kravis...   1:03 PM
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  TriBeCa Jackie Robinson museum is long overdue - and may never open due to rent costs

  A TriBeCa museum dedicated to Jackie Robinson is three years overdue — and may never open despite spending a fortune on rent. The Jackie Robinson Foundation has raised only a fraction of the $42 million it says is needed to honor the Brooklyn Dodger...   11:51 AM

• Pot arrests down by 22%

  Low-level marijuana arrests in New York City dropped 22 percent last year. Still, more than 39,000 people were picked up on minor pot-possession...   3:42 AM
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  Thieves snatch $2M in jewelry from Four Seasons display case

  Three slick thieves smashed and grabbed $2 million in bling from a Four Seasons display case just feet from the Midtown hotel’s front desk yesterday — and made a clean getaway, The Post has learned.  The crooks snatched three watches, a necklace,...   2:37 PM
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  Co-ed dies after boozing

  A 19-year-old college student collapsed in an East Village lobby then died yesterday after a night of bar-hopping and possible drug use, police sources and family members said. A doorman discovered Jocelyn Pascucci, a Stony Brook University student...