Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders, aka SAGE, which has given 30 years of support for aging members of the community (and one of the more charming floats in the Pride Parade) has an ad campaign coming to the subways this month, reports [...]
Remember way back in the early nineties, before the Internet and the end of capitalism, how the world almost ended because Demi Moore posed naked and pregnant on the cover of Vanity Fair? Those were the days. The cover of this month's W [...]
In February, CNN axed producer Chez Pazienza after executives discovered his blog and entries he wrote on the Huffington Post and other sites. (Seventy-nine percent of you thought this was unfair.)
Now that the controversy has died down, Mediashift's Simon [...]
A Queens woman who waited hours for a brain scan was won a $10.7 million award from a jury. Candida Diego, 71, had fallen down stairs at the pharmacy where she worked as a cashier and cracked her skull. She was taken to NY Hospital Medical [...]
One of the biggest crises for working families in America is the lack of affordable, quality child care. The choices available are few and often very exclusive (I hear rumors of people having to give stock tips to day care owners to get their kids in) and/or very expensive.
My wife [...]
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Fire officials say a smoke detector had been unplugged and its battery removed in the Brooklyn apartment where a fire left a 33-year-old man and his 12-year-old nephew dead early yesterday morning. It was second fatal fire from the weekend, after a fire in Manhattan's [...]
A former student of mine called in anger recently. Of course the issue was this pending malevolent attack on term-limits (and probable hijack) by Mayor Bloomberg and a New York City Council majority; via proposed legislation altering the term limits law voted in by the people. The student was livid. [...]
George informs me that Richard Randazzo has sent out a mailer attacking incumbent Nancy Calhoun for not supporting the Assembly’s antigun package.
What makes this especially grating is I have one of Randazzo’s old palm cards he handed out a number of years back during a run for [...]
This just in from Swing State - independent expenditures for NY Congressional races. Â These chart doesn’t seem to factor in HCAN ads or the Patriot Majority Ads that have appeared in the NY-29th but they do highlight the DCCC ads and since I’m only talking about the DCCC [...]
Remember, this is New York where everyone knows how dysfunctional Albany is but “their” legislator is doing a great job… Hint…. if they have been in Albany and are running for re-election… they are part of the dysfunction.
If they run their businesses or their home budgets the same way they [...]
Hofstra University on Long Island is gearing up to welcome John McCain and Barack Obama and tons of media this week. The school may spend over $3.5 million, including a $7,500 fee to apply and $1.35 million to the Presidential Debate Commission to be a host. [...]
Together, Columbus Day and Thanksgiving are the foundation myths of America. I have been ambivalent, in the litteral meaning of the word, towards Columbus Day for years now. I celebrate America and Columbus' "discovery" of the "New World" because the result of his discovery and the ultimate founding of America [...]
We had hoped the Swedes would award the Nobel Prize for Economics posthumously to Milton Friedman as a mean joke, but surprise, they chose the liberal but globalization-friendly New York Times columnist and Princeton professor Paul Krugman instead, claiming he has "integrated the [...]
Valleywag hinted at this on Friday, but we received confirmation over the weekend in the form of a memo sent by John Koten, the editor-turned-CEO: Mansueto Ventures, publishers of Inc. and Fast Company is laying off 20 people, including three members [...]
Leave it to the liberal politicians in the assembly to pull this asinine Law out of thin air. If Mr Spano thinks that climbing up on the top of a tractor trailer and clean off snow and ice is just a “minor inconvenience”, he should just give it a try, [...]
Stock futures are up 4% after as continued assurances and actions from world governments and central banks. Reuters proclaimed "Money Markets Ease on Unlimited Dollars Pledge," as Britain and Germany are committing "billions in taxpayers funds ...to prop up banks."
I’d like to think that if I was a McCain supporter waiting in line to see my candidate and some idiot in line near me was waving around a stuffed monkey with an Obama sticker attached to it, that I’d say something to him like, “you’re a f*cking asshole”. At [...]
GALLUP DAILY: Obama-McCain Gap Narrows...
