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Do you have a story you think we should tell? Call us at (212) 210-NEWS or email us at nydntips@nydailynews.com. This is your paper, and we are committed to covering the issues that matter to you. Here are some of our top stories from the last week:
Blackout Bailout: As the lights went out on Broadway on July 13, it was clear the city’s power failure was not just electrical in nature. Mayor de Blasio was more than 1,000 miles away in Iowa campaigning for president at
the time. He finally made it back to Manhattan a day later, hours after the lights were back on. A faulty Consolidated Edison cable plunged parts of Midtown into darkness, prompting thousands of subway and elevator rescues. At the height of the outage, tens of thousands of
Con Ed customers without power.
Dodgy Donors: Speaking of de Blasio, at least $370,000 of the paltry $1.1 million in funds the mayor has raised for his quixotic presidential run came from people or entities with business or interest before the city. The Daily News analyzed 571 donations of more than $200 using lobbying records and a database of those who do business with the city. Bigwigs in the real estate and hotel industries are among those who gave Blaz cash. The campaign has given back $4,261 from four donors, a de Blasio spokeswoman told The News.
Insult to injury: “This is an outrage, an insult to injury,” cried Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, after she learned Tuesday that the feds will not file civil rights charges against the NYPD officer who placed her son in a chokehold moments before his death. U.S. Attorney General William Barr made the decision not to go after Officer Daniel Pantaleo in Garner’s July 17, 2014, death. The deadly struggle between Garner and cops was caught on video, which was given exclusively to The News. In the clip, Garner is heard saying, “I can’t breathe” 11 times. The Garner family continues to push for Pantaelo’s firing from the NYPD and promised 11 days of protests.