Paterson to become first black, blind New York governor
Michael Hill
ALBANY, N.Y. — The man poised to succeed the disgraced Eliot Spitzer will not only become the first black governor of New York. He will also be the state’s first legally blind governor, and its first disabled governor since Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Though his sight is limited, Lt. Gov. David Paterson walks the halls of the Capitol unaided. He recognizes people at conversational distance and can memorize whole speeches. Full story
The comeback
RCC women back in the game after four-year hiatus
 Liz Hoffman
Mark Leszczyk has a thing for lost causes.
In 1999, he took the girl’s basketball coaching job at Our Lady of Fatima High School in Providence, R.I., which hadn’t won a single game in four years. His first year, the team won one game. The next year, they went to the league playoffs. Last Saturday, six years after Leszczyk had moved on, they played for a Rhode Island state championship. Full story
Activists bare teeth in Ohio
foreclosure fight
Adam Geller
CLEVELAND — Folks on Humphrey Hill Drive were still waking up on the icy Saturday morning the shark hunters came to town.
They rounded the suburban traffic circle in a pair of rented school buses after a half-hour ride from far more modest neighborhoods, rumbling to a stop at the Garmone family’s driveway. Forty-two caffeinated Clevelanders piled out, their leaders carrying bullhorns.
Their quarry, Mike Garmone — a regional vice president at Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation’s largest mortgage lender — didn’t answer his door. So they deployed, ringing bells at the big homes with three-car garages, handing out accusatory fliers and lambasting Garmone and his company’s loans. Full story
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