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Howard Graubard, an attorney, Brooklyn resident and former aide to a state Senate minority leader, blogged about local, state and national politics at Ben Smith’s “Room 8” (and elsewhere) in 2006-’16 under the pseudonym “Gatemouth.” (No one was fooled.)

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CityViews: Community Board Term Limits Would Weaken Checks and Balances

By Howard Graubard | November 1, 2018

‘This is opening up the process in the manner of slashing one’s own wrists.’

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