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Photo from 1010 WINS I know these people want to really give you full thanks, hugs, and everything else : New York Homelessness Soars 34% And here in New York, city officials have disclosed the number of homeless increased a staggering 34 percent last year. More than 3,100 people lived on the streets in 2009, in addition to the near-record 38,000 listed as living in shelters. No wonder he stayed FAR, FAR away from talking about this, and it's something his opponent, Bill Thompson, should have talked much more about . Bloomberg has long struggled to address New York City's homeless problem. He set a goal in his first term of reducing the homeless population by two-thirds by 2009. But the number of people in shelters surpassed 39,000 for the first time last fall, some 3,000 more than when he took office. Until this year, the annual citywide street homeless count has declined each year since the survey began in 2005, when 4,395 were counted. Homeless advocates regularl...

Relieve to know that Emperor Bloomberg will not seek to be NYC mayor in the year 3000.

(Bloomberg's photo from bloomberg09.com; Wolfson's photo from google.com How lovely : Having caught his breath after one of the most prolonged primary campaigns in history, Howard Wolfson, Hillary Clinton's longtime communications director, will now go direct some communication for Mayor Bloomberg's re-election campaign. Wolfson announced the new gig in an exclusive interview with NY1, calling Bloomberg "somebody who governs by addition, not by subtraction." In an e-mail to friends obtained by Poltico, Wolfson wrote: "As a New Yorker, I am very excited at the prospect of helping the Mayor at this very critical time in our city's history." And when questioned about his past dismissal of Hizzoner as "an out-of-touch billionaire," Wolfson explained that he those were not his words, but rather his "evil twin." This arrogant nut Wolfson was seemingly unbearable during the course of the primary season. And to make his credentials ev...