A analysis of Board of Elections data has determined that Charles Montgomery Burns, the nuclear power magnate immortalized in The Simpsons, would have won the recent NYC mayoral election, had it just been limited to write-in votes. A mysteriously-funded "grassroots" campaign to install Burns [...]
After the president’s speech on Tuesday, the nation has turned it’s eyes from the health care debate to the war in Afghanistan. Sadly, that doesn’t seem to be a problem because the debate about true reform is already over for this cycle. Our choice has become:
Increase the [...]
On Wednesday, the city announced that four struggling public schools would be closed. Now the city says four more are slated to be shut down—including Jamaica High School in Queens. Enrollment at Jamaica High School has been falling. Jamaica High tells the [...]
Ashley Dupre, aka Kristen, Governor Spitzer's pricey escort, is weighing in on Tiger Woods' growing posse of alleged mistresses. She text messaged with the Post, complaining, "Here you have all these girls accepting gifts, money, trips from Tiger in exchange for sex'" [...]
At midnight on December 2nd, 1984, twenty-seven tons of lethal gases leaked from Union Carbide’s pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, immediately killing 8,000 people and poisoning thousands of others. According to Bhopal.net, "There was no warning, none of the plant's safety" [...]
The Department of Labor released jobs data for November and it turns out the country "only" lost 11,000 jobs last month, bringing unemployment to 10%, after being at 10.2% for October. Now the Dow has jumped over 100 points [...]
I went into the nest’s garage this morning and did one final inspection of our snow removal equipment…everything is a go to handle the lake effect blast today.
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Earlier this year, Lorain County, Ohio, purchased 13 new buses for its transit service using federal stimulus money. Come January 1, those buses are going to be sitting idle.
Ride it while you can: bus service in Lorain County, Ohio (Photo: [...]
Photo via knador's Twitter
Have you seen any creepy rabbits in suits walking around town? It seems Twitter is abuzz with sightings. We've deduced that there's not a Furry Convention in town, and neither Donnie Darko or Inland Empire' [...]
Ladkiddo told you about the budget hearing last night, the D&C was there and filed this report.
Members of the Democratic caucus asked why rent payments from Frontier Field, which haven’t been collected since 2002, are continuing to be budgeted, and asked about cost impacts from union contracts still [...]
State Senator Hiram Monserrate is expected in court today, to face sentencing for his misdemeanor assault (of his girlfriend) conviction. WCBS 2 reports, "The Queens District Attorney was expected to ask for only 60 days in prison instead of" [...]
After a photo emerged yesterday of an overweight man on an American Airlines flight, flooding the aisle with flab, Federal aviation authorities investigated the image.
Apparently before being airborne, flight attendants gave the man two extra seats, which is in line with safety rules, according [...]
Photograph from Jessica Pearson
[UPDATE BELOW] 8:30 a.m. Eep, NYC Transit is warning, "Due to a rail condition at the Queensboro Plaza Station, there is no service in both directions on the N trains from the Queensboro Plaza Station to the Astoria-Ditmars" [...]
Ok…so it is my yard…exciting stuff!
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After agreeing to settle an explosive $600 million lawsuit filed by five female former employees, Hawaiian Tropic Zone has backed away from a deal to settle out of court for $2 million. It's a surprising move for HTZ, which is famous for its bikini-clad [...]
There might not be a chill in the air just yet—thanks, global warming!—but as long as the calendar reads December, we're in Oscar season. The first weekend of the month brings three contenders to multiplexes, but just one (hint: its name rhymes with Schmup in the Schmair) stands' [...]
Can you feel the George Pataki fever? Neither can I. But apparently the former New York governor think he can coax a lot of people into believing in him one last time.
For a while, Pataki has come up as a possible challenger to Kirsten Gillibrand—the appointed senator who [...]
Photograph of St. Peter's R.C. Church from Medieval New York The Archdiocese of New York is asking a priest at a Staten Island church to go back to his "native Philippines because he’s ill with kidney disease," the Staten Island Advance [...]
I’ve had a lot on my mind lately, and I hope I get a chance to sift through it on here over the next few days. In the meantime, there’s one incident stuck on my mind.
It happened the other day when one of my students got caught with his finger [...]
THANK-YOU Tiger, from the bottoms of our little pussycat hearts! Thank-you for the publicity, the extra 15 minutes of fame and the $$$ we stand to gain from our involvement with you! Meow!!!Slate.com has sponsored a writing contest for those who would aspire to Sarah Palin’s literary apex. The winners have been announced and you can view them here, but for your masochistic pleasure, I have brought the 1st place winner to RT in order to whet your appetite [...]
Courtesy Marquil at Empirewire.com.
Consider this today’s open thread, and check out a new site PinkBFLO: Our City, Only Gayer. KTHXBAI
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Photograph of Mark Sanchez after diving by David Duprey/AP
You'll recall the brouhaha sparked by the video of a cop body-slamming a man off his bicycle back in the summer of '08; the officer lost his job and the cyclist, Christopher Long, filed a fat lawsuit. Well, the Post is quick [...]
More than week after Mayor Bloomberg handed Chancellor Joel Klein a to-do list of items anathema to the teachers union, UFT president Michael Mulgrew is promising a fight.
In an email sent to United Federation of Teachers members this afternoon, Mulgrew said the mayor’s proposals will “damage the schools and [...]
Now that the big speech is over might want to review Middle and far east expert Professor Juan Cole’s take. Specifically, how the new escalation can come off the rails.
Read the whole thing but here are some highlights of the ten concerns he has. Pay attention to #5
1. Obama’s [...]
I found a new blogspot called Brains and Eggs. They have a wonderful group of responses to the president’s 30,000 troop surge in Afghanistan. Among them was Eric Massa’s response:
And I would have to ask a question: Why 30,000 troops and not 40? Why 30,000 troops and [...]
Monday: Home for the Holidays
Is anyone out there suffering from a little post traumatic thanksgiving stress disorder? We understand! And, we suggest you check out 1995’s Home for the Holidays. Holly Hunter stars as a single parent (her daughter is played by Claire Danes, who mainly just chatters [...]
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I love the Christmas season…enjoy!
[...]I am an unapologetic METALHEAD….
This song by DIO rocks…Vivian Campbell’s solo is a tasty jam.
[...]It’s over with with Zelonis anyway, now we just have to get those tolls down. I won’t stop until they are and Thompson and Luh investigated for coercion and screwing the public.
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The fired Grand Island Bridge toll collector who sent threatening e-mails to an anti-toll activist on the Island pleaded [...]
From a blogger’s perspective, the one good result in the wake of the defeat of marital equality is the wealth of opportunity. There are so many possible angles just begging to be explored.
Some gay activists are now busy outing an allegedly gay State Senator who voted against marital equality. [...]
MTV ShowsOh, David Cross, not since your never-nude turn on Arrested Development have you shined like this. Sure, the audience at the MTVu "Woodie Awards" -- ahem, whatever the hell that is* -- ...
Continue reading "David Cross Endorses Scientology In a Way Only He Can" > [...]I was not the only citizen of the Marine Park community who was shocked at Carl Kruger's vote of "No" on the gay marriage bill. I am quite frankly sick of Kruger's antics. When the Democrats won control of the senate, and he was one of the Senator's holding up [...]
James Eterno, Jamaica High School's UFT chapter leader. (GothamSchools Flickr)
The head of the union chapter at Jamaica High School said teachers there have been expecting the school’s closure for years and criticized the city for planning to open new small schools without offering help to [...]
Just in time for the Holidays, A Reason to BE THANKFUL and have GRATITUDE and STOP bitchin'!
A leader of a major Mexican drug cartel and former Texas police officer was sentenced in Manhattan federal court yesterday for importing at least 200 tons of cocaine into the United States during ...
Continue reading "Former Texas Cop Indicted in New York for Moving 200" [...]
Recently the Riese Organization took over 34 Union Square East... the old Zen Palate space. Sigh. And what's going up in its place? The much rumored T.G.I. Friday's and a Tim Horton's of course, helping to complete the circle of chains around the [...]
TVNewser: The Washington Post reports that George Stephanopoulos has been offered the co-anchor position on "Good Morning America" to replace Diane Sawyer as she leaves for "World News."
WWD: In the midst of a recession that has hit the high-end advertising market pretty hard, luxury pub [...]
State Senator Diane Savino, who represents Staten Island and Brooklyn, is getting praise for her speech in favor of gay marriage during the ultimately unsuccessful vote in the Senate yesterday.
She pointed out, "We're giving away husbands on a TV show," referred to' [...]
Job-seekers: The skill in the third sentence is the sort of thing you may be tempted to lie about, but we have a hunch that if you do, this employer will ask you to spar. Don't be afraid to say...
Continue reading "Craigslist Help Wanted Highlights:'" [...]
trippchicago's Flickr The deficit-reduction plan passed by the State Legislature yesterday cut $140 million from the authority's operating budget, which is more than the $110 million that was originally anticipated. Bus and subway fares are already expected to rise 7.5 percent [...]
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Wondering what the new Bloomberg BusinessWeek will look like?
Turns out, not that different from pre-Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The latest cover from the new pub is above, and compared to one from a few weeks ago, there's not much of a difference -- save for the addition [...]
Jamaica High School, a long-beleaguered school in central Queens, is among four more schools the Department of Education today said it would phase out beginning at the end of the school year.
The other schools are the School for Community Research and Learning, a Bronx high school; the Academy for [...]
