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New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg is the 13th richest person in the world, according to Forbes. The magazine released its latest annual tally of billionaires on Monday. According to Forbes, Bloomberg’s net worth as of March 2013 is $27 billion — which also makes him the seventh wealthiest person in the United States.

Potential City Council legislation to reduce health-inspection fines for restaurants is motivated by elected officials' thirst to help an industry that is donating money to their political campaigns, Mayor Michael Bloomberg charged Friday. Mr. Bloomberg didn't single out City Council Speaker Christine Quinn during remarks on his weekly radio show, but Ms. Quinn is leading the charge to address what she's described as the Bloomberg administration's borderline harassment of the restaurant industry. Fines increased to more than $52 million in the fiscal year that ended June 30, triple the amount from fiscal year 2006.

Over the weekend it was revealed that the Bloomberg administration’s next health initiative will be to make it more difficult for new mothers to have access to baby formula in order. This latest move doesn’t sit well with U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long, who calls it a “nandate” (as in a cross between nanny state and mandate) and who wonders how hizzoner could be pro-choice when it comes to abortion but not when it comes to breast-feeding.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has banned smoking in New York City parks and is trying to ban the sale of sugary drinks over 16 oz. Now he has his sights on another target: baby formula. “Latch On NYC” is a citywide initiative to support mothers who choose to breastfeed and limit practices that interfere with that choice.

New York City's mayor is suing its city council. At issue: the legality of two new laws setting a minimum wage for workers on many city-funded projects. The council overrode Mayor Michael Bloomberg's veto in June to mandate a wage of at least $10 per hour for workers at companies getting $1 million or more in city funding.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is calling for drastic action to get lawmakers to crack down on guns in the wake of the massacre in Colorado. He believes the nation’s police officers have it in their power to get political leaders moving on gun control. Appearing on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” on Monday, the mayor urged police officers, who stand in the front lines against violent criminals, to take a stand to prompt Congress to renew the expired federal ban on assault weapons.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Barack Obama met last month at the White House, reportedly to discuss the mayor’s future. It was a private lunch, and the mayor provided few details. “He was very interested in what’s going on in New York City, and what we need from the federal government to continue to grow, and then we, you know, a little bit of conversation about golf,” said Bloomberg on Monday. “But it was a very pleasant lunch.” A White House spokesman says they didn’t discuss the election, but The New York Times reports the mayor and President talked about education, immigration, and the federal deficit. It also reported that they also talked about the mayor’s future.     Is he interested in being an economic advisor to the President? “Uh, no,” he said Monday. “There’s no reason… why I should be or anybody would care.” The lunch invite was striking as the mayor and President don’t always see eye-to-eye. Bloomberg has been critical of the administr...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says New Jersey officials’ complaints about NYPD surveillance of Muslim groups are “ridiculous.” He was responding to criticism from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Newark Mayor Cory Booker over the NYPD’s tactics. Bloomberg said Friday on his weekly appearance on WOR Radio that it’s “a bit ridiculous” to say “the NYPD should stop at the border.”

The Scarlet letter of parking punishments may stick around a little longer. Mayor Bloomberg Monday said he was “adamantly” against a City Council bill to ban the Sanitation Department from slapping the pesky, fluorescent stickers on cars that block street-sweeping trucks.

Mayor Bloomberg took some credit for New Yorkers living longer than ever -- even surpassing national figures. At a news conference Tuesday, the Bloomberg administration said babies born in 2009 had a life expectancy of 80.6 years, an increase of nearly three years since 2000. New York City ’s life expectancy is now higher than national average of 78.2 years.

New York - After suffering a blizzard of criticism following the city's botched effort to remove snow from the city's streets last week, Mayor Bloomberg has scored his lowest approval rating since taking office, according to a poll released today. Bloomberg’s 37 percent approval rating is the lowest mark he has received since taking office in January 2002 and he has the fallout from the blizzard to thank for it.

From his first day on the campaign trail through nine years at the helm, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has mentioned one person more than any other in the speeches he's delivered over the years: his mother.

New York - Dozens of emails between Mayor Bloomberg’s aides and developers of the proposed mosque near Ground Zero show the mayor’s office has gone out of its way to support the controversial plan – with one of his commissioners going so far as to ghost write a letter to a community board leader on the mosque’s behalf.

New York - A proposal by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to make 34th Street one way and create another pedestrian plaza in the area has residents and business owners hopping mad.

New York - A nationally-known finance executive who served in the Treasury Department under President Bush is in line to become the city's next deputy mayor for economic development, The Post has learned.

New York - A top campaign operative involved in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 2009 re-election bid was charged today with stealing approximately $1.2 million in missing campaign funds.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg paid more than $500,000 in personal income tax last year, reporting to the Internal Revenue Service that his investments did well but not enough to compensate for losses the previous year, according to returns made public Friday.

New York - Mayor Bloomberg wants to run New York with his iPad. The tech-savvy mayor showed off his new tablet computer at a Staten Island civic meeting on Tuesday night, calling it a great way to save time and eliminate paper - though he's still fumbling with the touchscreen.

New York - When Mayor Bloomberg wants something, he has plenty of tools to help him get it - friends in high places, a bully pulpit, six-figure donations to political parties and money for influential city nonprofits.

New York - Mayor Bloomberg's approval rating has fallen to the lowest point in five years, a new poll out Friday shows, as he contemplates painful cuts to balance the city budget.