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  • The video is the first news of the Chinese advocate's whereabouts in five months.

    Chinese Civil Rights Activist Beaten After Secretly Recording House Arrest Curtis M. Wong 2011

  • As The Wall Street Journal reported last month, in the fine print of the mayor's preliminary budget Mr. Bloomberg recommended cutting the public advocate's budget by 20% and each of the borough president's budgets by as much as 36%.

    Borough President Denounces Cuts Michael Howard Saul 2011

  • In a report to be released Tuesday, the city's Independent Budget Office—at the request of the public advocate's office—analyzed 17 years of reports prepared by the EDC that are intended to evaluate the costs of projects and the amount of jobs those projects provide.

    Bill Focuses on Cost of Keeping Firms in City Joseph De Avila 2011

  • The video is the first news of the Chinese advocate's whereabouts in five months.

    Chinese Civil Rights Activist Beaten After Secretly Recording House Arrest Curtis M. Wong 2011

  • Another law-enforcement official with knowledge of the case said two lawyers were transferred from the NYPD's legal bureau to the agency's advocate's office, which prosecutes departmental charges.

    Ticket Probe Reverberates Outside Court Alison Fox 2011

  • But those reports "do not allow us to produce credible estimates of the costs to the city of different projects or their effectiveness in creating or retaining jobs," according to a copy of the IBO report provided by the public advocate's office and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

    Bill Focuses on Cost of Keeping Firms in City Joseph De Avila 2011

  • Gaeta, the editor-in-chief of Famiglia Cristiana, one of Italy's highest-circulation magazines, claims to have had privileged access to the advocate's files of letters, many of them left by pilgrims at John Paul's tomb in the Vatican.

    Beatification prompts close look at Pope John Paul II's miracles. 2011

  • Gaeta, the editor-in-chief of Famiglia Cristiana, one of Italy's highest-circulation magazines, claims to have had privileged access to the advocate's files of letters, many of them left by pilgrims at John Paul's tomb in the Vatican.

    Beatification prompts close look at Pope John Paul II's miracles. 2011

  • Officials with the public advocate's office added that the EDC has complied with all city laws requiring the group to file annual reports to the City Council regarding its job-creation deals.

    Bill Focuses on Cost of Keeping Firms in City Joseph De Avila 2011

  • The consumer advocate's motives are far from altruistic.

    Nader Kindles Fires of Revolt Susan Pulliam 2011

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