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New York City's Emergency Text Alerts In the Spotlight

in News on May 12, 2009 at 5:01 am PT

A warning would have been welcome when an Air Force jet flew unannounced over the New York Harbor weeks ago and sent frightened workers in lower Manhattan into a tizzy. (When it turned out the flyover was for an expensive photo op, the White House official who approved it resigned from his post over the scandal.)