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For Randy Daniels, the accusations of sexual harassment by a former colleague are a blemish on a career that has combined journalism, public relations, entrepreneurship and politics. Occasionally, to the […]

LEAD: As the New York City Council ended two days of hearings on commercial rent control yesterday, Mayor Koch said he would veto the measure favored by the Council's strongest […]

LEAD: FOR eight years, as if on a political merry-go-round, the New York City Council has returned for another look at the idea of protecting small businesses from astronomical rent […]

LEAD: A politically explosive commercial rent control bill is deeply flawed and would certainly open the city to serious legal challenges, legal experts told a New York City Council committee […]

LEAD: Over the objections of Mayor Koch, the City Council unanimously approved a bill yesterday to raise the amount of money the city contributes to medical insurance premiums for retired […]

LEAD: Once again, Peter F. Vallone, the New York City Council majority leader, has chosen to challenge Mayor Koch in a fiscal tug of wills he seems destined to lose. […]

LEAD: The Koch administration, already urging fiscal restraint on the City Council, said yesterday that New York City was facing a 'substantial decline' in projected tax revenues. It said the […]

LEAD: Mayor Koch, in an unexpected move, yesterday lifted a six-week ban that had prohibited vendors from working in midtown Manhattan, and agreed to a compromise to limit food stands […]

LEAD: The New York City Council, maintaining its opposition to a $150 million tax increase to balance the Mayor's proposed budget, rejected a $25.2 billion spending plan yesterday and demanded […]

LEAD: The New York City Board of Estimate joined the City Council yesterday in defying Mayor Koch's request for a $150 million increase in property taxes to balance the city's […]

LEAD: After weeks of a contentious fiscal tug-of-war, the Koch administration, the City Council and city's Board of Estimate agreed early this morning to a $25.2 billion spending plan that […]

LEAD: Mayor Koch and the Board of Estimate yesterday supported a City Council proposal seeking additional excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco products to help close a contested city budget […]

LEAD: Warning that New York City homeowners already face a dramatic state-mandated property tax increase in 1990, the City Council majority leader, Peter F. Vallone, said yesterday that he opposed […]

LEAD: The list of no-shows among New York City's black elected officials at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Parade last Sunday seemed almost as long as the 21st […]

LEAD: Mayor Edward I. Koch and four other potential mayoral candidates filed yesterday to participate in the city's new public campaign-financing program. But City Council President Andrew J. Stein said […]