<div><p>The City Council approved both the plan for redeveloping Willets Point, and the plan for redeveloping Hunter's Point South: Eliot Brown has details </p><p>Hiram Monserrate exchanged words with unhappy businessmen from Willets Point. </p><p>In State Senate loss, is there a gain for Marty Connor? </p><p>Rudy Giuliani gives (some) support to Joe Mondello </p><p>Buffalo projects sneak under the budget axe. </p><p>Mike Schenkler muses on Anthony Weiner's strategy for 2009: a long mayoral primary would make "Bloomberg's financial advantage less significant." </p><p>Al Gore will not join the Obama administration. </p><p>Would-be Republican mayoral candidate Bruce Blakeman was at the Regency Hotel this morning listening to Queens County Democratic Leader Joe Crowley's speech. </p><p>Queens is getting more Democratic under Crowley. </p><p>James Heaney notes that if David Paterson's education aid cuts are enacted, schools will still get more money than last year. </p><p>Vinny Gentile supports a lawsuit that would force Bloomberg to release the $400 property-tax rebates he recently rescinded. [2nd item] </p><p>Dan Miner finally gets some respect for his "crackpot" theory about oil prices. </p><p>The 86-year-old Democratic district leader of Flushing, Julia Harrison, may make a bid for John Liu's City Council seat. </p><p>A Williamsburg blogger is concerned that the area is getting "second-class" treatment. </p><p>One Bloomberg budget plan is not going over well in Queens. </p><p>City Councilwoman Diana Reyna has a new haircut. </p><p>Lee Landor: the "ghost" of East River tolling is back to haunt New Yorkers. </p><p>And Dick Parsons, free from the temptation of running for mayor, is popping up in some interesting business circles.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=36990571&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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