Newsday article on NYC administration year two, 2003

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NEWS Trumpeting his administration's rookie-year Photos successes. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is resolving in • Newsday.com Home • New York City 2003 to keep up the practice of ignoring his aides' advice - by occasionally sounding out new, untested proposals in public. 1 • Ground Zero In a year-end interview with Newsday, the mayor to Wl • NYC Politics added that he will not flinch from what could be a • Photos of the Day politically risky retooling of city agencies, such as the • Beach Report Fire Department. • Queens Life • Long Island And the self-made billionaire and former Democrat • Nation vowed to remain a Republican, even if he doesn't . World "have anything in common with ultra-conservatives.” a • State His organizational approach works as well in • Heatth/Science Mayor Michael government as it did in business, he is prepared to Bloomberg SHOPS • Obituaries • Columnists • In Today's Paper argue. ■TTie staff always says, and I think conventional How Do You Grade Bloomberg's Job? a INIRQO advice would be, you can never be seen to float an TRAFFIC idea and then walk away from it because they write DOING After one year as mayor, -WITHK 'flip-flop' or whatever," Bloomberg said. "That’s not how do you think • New York City the world I came from or think should exist. •How » Long Island Michael Bloomberg Is "I think that's healthy, that's democracy," he said in doing? •How SPORTS his wall-less second-floor City Hall office. A • Excellent Job »Abou • Scoreboard Much of ths year's major city government news, of B - Good •Cont • Columnists course, was more concrete than philosophical. C - Competent • Yankees • Mets Property taxes rose. Fire fatalities declined and crimeI D - Poor • Rangers fell In most categories even though there were fewer police. Deficits swelled; the city borrowed for E • Failing Miserably • Jets operating costs; agency budgets were sliced. Two . • Giants major unions signed contracts, but with the hard parts • Knicks - concessions -- still to be fought over. ” • Nets • Liberty Recently, his voter-approval rating plunged, with a More Coverage • High Schools Quinnipiac University poll reporting last month that 46 q „ percent disapproved of his job performance and 41 ® ^LQjuIBDU BUSINESS percent approved. But the mayor could cite goals that S.h.§dow were fulfilled, such as winning control of the school • stock Quotes system and agreeing with the council to ban smoking Top Stories • Columnists in most workplaces. Emphasizing public health, he _

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