Extra, Extra

- Representative Anthony Weiner is upset that the Department of Homeland Security sent $7000for Columbus, Ohio - specifically doggie kevlar vests
- Man found dead in elevator at the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn
- It's not exactly the TWU, but Macy's workers have agreed to strike if management doesn't give them a food offer
- A woman was killed by a bus on East 86th Street
- Police captain Eric Adams, also the founder of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, says that he may be fired over his criticism of how Mayor Bloomberg handled the subway terror threats last October, you know, the ones right around the time of the debate the Mayor skipped
- Columbia kids get some blogging basics from Gawker's Jesse Oxfeld
- With City Council Speaker's firing of 60 council staffers, the comments thread at The Politicker got very interesting

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on February 20, 2006 6:04 PM

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tk

Mr Adams provided 22 years of service, and is set to retire in about three weeks. If the city succeeds in terminating him, his pension gets revoked. And why are they firing him? Because Mr Adams simply said the mayor shouldn't have waited until one hour before the Harlem debate to announce the terror threat. The city kept the terror threat a secret for two whole days prior.