The Minneapolis Star Tribune has lost approximately half its workforce since 2007: going from 2,000 to 1,000 employees due to circulation decreases, budget cuts, and all those other pesky recessionary reasons that papers are folding or cutting back severely these days. Yet the Star Tribune [...]
In a move that The Times calls "unprecedented," the Royal Shakespeare Company will set up camp at the Park Avenue Armory in the summer of 2011 for a six-week-long residence.
This operation will involve 44 actors, 23 musicians, "about 30 other artists," five plays, and a full-size replica of [...]
An elderly Carroll Gardens woman recently fell for the old "you're grandson's in trouble" con, but this one had a clever Canadian twist. A man identifying himself as "Constable Karl Moore from the Canadian Police Department" telephoned a woman at her home on Henry Street' [...]
Image: U.S. PIRG
Now that the Obama administration has awarded $8 billion in high-speed rail grants to more than two dozen states, with $2.5 billion more coming soon, why not keep thinking big when it comes to bullet-train expansion?
That's the ethos of a [...]
With the recession and layoffs dominating media conversations, it's easy to forget about the people who are unhappily employed. You know who you are. Your co-worker just got canned, but instead of consoling, you want to scream, "Take me with you!"
Don't worry, young grasshopper. Even
Owing to wintry scenes such as the one at right, recorded in north Brooklyn, public schools are closed tomorrow. Meteorologists predict a storm, and the Daily News says "officials are worried tha...
Continue reading "Record 0" Snowfall Closes New York Public Schools" >
Photo via mtkr's flickr More animals are terrorizing our streets! This time chickens have taken over the 1300 block of Edward L. Grant Highway in the Bronx (safe from eagles and coyotes... for now). According to the Daily News, [...]
The House of Representatives just one-upped New York's public schools and canceled the rest of its week.
Earlier, committee chairs had been steadily re-scheduling hearings--even on seemingly urgent issues like those nine million potentially faulty brake pedals. "Due to the inclement weather set to impact the DC Metropolitan area" [...]
The anticipated vote on the fate of Sen. Hiram Monserrate has made the Capitol just a little bit weirder today. The building hasn’t quite been enveloped by the circus atmosphere that existed during this summer’s Senate coup, but there is a sense that people are ready to see a show.
The [...]
The anticipated vote on the fate of Sen. Hiram Monserrate has made the Capitol just a little bit weirder today. The building hasn’t quite been enveloped by the circus atmosphere that existed during this summer’s Senate coup, but there is a sense that people are ready to see a show.
The [...]
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Councilmember Larry Seabrook has surrendered.
In a press release, the office announced, “Seabrook, 58, surrendered to authorities this morning, and is expected to be presented later today in Magistrate court in Manhattan federal court.”
Elsewhere, the City Council is expected to take up [...]
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Councilmember Larry Seabrook has surrendered.
In a press release, the office announced, “Seabrook, 58, surrendered to authorities this morning, and is expected to be presented later today in Magistrate court in Manhattan federal court.”
Elsewhere, the City Council is expected to take up [...]
A reader sent along the above photo from the concourse. It speaks largely for itself.
I would just note that today is D-Day for Sen. Hiram Monserrate, a Queens Democrat who was found unfit to serve in the Senate by a panel chaired by Schneiderman.
Also, [...]
Gov. David Paterson’s 21-day budget amendments are due out today and supporters of allowing wine sales in grocery stores is already touting a key feature of the updated fiscal proposal: higher fees for stores seeking to sell wine.
If approved, that should raise projected revenues from $147 million to $300 million [...]
AP/Toyota's president Akio Toyoda
Today Toyota made official its recall of over 400,000 hybrid cars. Meanwhile a Queens man says he felt the affects of automaker's widespread pedal problems first-hand when his out-of-control Camry hit two other cars yesterday, ending up [...]
Gerald Posner, an investigative journalist and contributor to Tina Brown's The Daily Beast (not to mention a frequent guest on MSNBC's Hardball), has admitted to plagiarizing a juicy celebrity death story straight from the pages of The Miami Herald. Jack Shafer at [...]
from Zach K's flickr
Under Gov. Paterson's plan to rescue the MTA from a $400 million budget shortfall, New York City businesses would see a payroll tax increase by 59 percent, surging from .34 percent for every $100 of payroll to [...]
City Council member Larry Seabrook has been indicted in the continuing probe into the slush fund scandal.
The 13-count indictment charges Seabrook with soliciting and accepting bribes, extortion, money laundering, and funneling tax money into phony nonprofits that existed only to benefit him and some of his relatives. In addition, there [...]
Friends and clients of real estate investor Adam Hochfelder thought they were buying shares in Lake George's Sagamore Resort and another property in Telluride, Colorado, but instead the money was going up Hochfelder's nose, among other places. The onetime-mogul—who underwent nasal reconstructive surgery because of [...]
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said the Standards and Ethics Committee will review the accusations against Larry Seabrook, who just turned himself in. It'll be the committee's first meeting of the year, according to the Council web site.
In a public statement, Quinn said:
All of us in the City Council take' [...]
Former Tennessee lawmaker, current Wall Street worker, and possible Senate candidate Harold Ford has already taken heat from his likely rival for not disclosing whether or not he earned a "taxpayer-backed" bonus for his work at Merrill Lynch. Now, he's taking heat from [...]
That coyote's in your bike lane While we all wait for a Bald Eagle vs. Coyote face-off—or for those Columbia University coyotes to finish their education and take over the human race—we figured we'd get some facts from the front' [...]
For months, students have been fighting back against the MTA’s budget cuts that would phase out the free Metrocards that allow them to get to school and back.
Khaair Morrison, a Queens high school student, explains in the community section what such a change would mean for him and [...]
Monserrate, Espada and Nieves. (Jimmy Vielkind/Times Union)
“I’m going to go back to work right now. That’s what I’m here for,” Sen. Hiram Monserrate, who was deemed unfit to serve by a Senate committee, said to reporters before going into an anteroom beside the chamber.
He sucked [...]
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Tonight Rep. Eric Massa will appear on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” at 6:00 pm eastern to discuss healthcare reform. Check local listings for more information.
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They’re paying Monserrate off
Monserrate will say he accepts “the will of the senate”
ALBANY – Nervous Senate officials are calling in extra muscle for Tuesday’s historic vote on whether to expel Sen. Hiram Monserrate.
The Senate will have additional sergeants at arms inside the Senate and state troopers stationed just outside [...]
So it's come to this. With transit revenues plummeting to the point where the MTA has to deal with a $400 million shortfall on top of an austerity plan that already calls for deep cuts in service, Governor Paterson yesterday proposed shifting the burden of the MTA payroll tax [...]
Brooklyn youths use a 1957 snowstorm as an excuse for idleness and pelting busy adults with snowballs. (Lisa Larsen/Life )
Snow noes, the teenagers are going to be running amok tonight! The Mayor's office has preemptively announced that all NYC public [...]
Councilmember Larry Seabrook, who served in the state Assembly and just started his third term at the City Council, is being charged with money laundering, extortion and fraud, according to an indictment released today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District.
Councilmember Larry Seabrook, who served in the state Assembly and just started his third term at the City Council, is being charged with money laundering, extortion and fraud, according to an indictment released today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District.
Abu-Shahid
Today Imam Zulqarnain Abdu-Shahid, the Correction Department chaplain and ex-con caught carrying sharp objects (razor blades and a pair of scissors) into a downtown prison, is set to testify in front of a grand jury. Last week the Imam was [...]
Today is the day that Sen. Hiram Monserrate will face the music. Some sort of resolution to penalize Monserrate is expected to be introduced and voted on.
It isn’t clear whether Senate Majority Conference Leader John Sampson will introduce a measure to expel Monserrate or one that simply censures him. Sen. [...]
Today is the day that Sen. Hiram Monserrate will face the music. Some sort of resolution to penalize Monserrate is expected to be introduced and voted on.
It isn’t clear whether Senate Majority Conference Leader John Sampson will introduce a measure to expel Monserrate or one that simply censures him. Sen. [...]
We almost forgot: there's a special election in the 24th Assembly District in Queens today. Heavily favored is David Weprin, the former councilmember who ran for the Democratic nomination for com...
Continue reading "David Weprin vs. Bob Friedrich: Oh, Right, Special Election in Queens Today" > [...]
Today rapper Lil Wayne is expected to report to Rikers Island, where he'll spend most of 2010 behind bars after pleading guilty to "attempted" gun possession charges. In a cover story interview with Rolling Stone, Wayne says he hasn't sought advice [...]
As an indication that this predicted snowstorm is no joke, Joel Klein has already announced that New York City public schools will be closed tomorrow.
Now the city has worry about clearing the snow, which, as Washington has shown, isn't always that easy.
From Klein:
Due to anticipated inclement weather conditions,' [...]
Photo of Brighton Beach Sunbathers by Tom Giebel
Last week, the Empire Center for New York State Policy released their annual report on NY legislative spending and posted it on their government transparency website, SeeThroughNY. I didn’t see much of any coverage of the release, so I wanted to get this out in front of [...]
To the slate of candidates bucking the national anti-finance mood and touting their Wall Street experience, add one more name.
"I worked 10 years in finance," alleged Spitzer-madam Kristin Davis told a Libertarian group last week, according to the Daily News. "I was vice president of a hedge fund." [...]
A parent just left this comment on today’s Rise and Shine post:
I think education reporters should disclose information about their schooling–public or private–as well as where their children go, if they have them. I think this is fair especially when a cover story blasts certain aspects of public schools. [...]
Come on you’ve seen it- the end of the Superbowl, the winner of the game is over and suddenly the Tee-shorts emblazoned with the winning teams name suddenly appear and EVERYONE is wearing them. Well, you know they made two sets - one for each team - what happens to [...]
Assemblyman Rory Lancman, D-Queens, is looking for co-sponsors for a bill that will make it harder for corporations to make political contributions.
Lancman argued today in the New York Law Journal that after the Citizens United decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court, “corporations stand on like footing [...]
Bloomberg photo by Oliver 66 on flickr.
Believe it or not, Mayor Bloomberg is insisting that the NYPD's crime statistics are accurate—well, most of the time. "There's always going to be some fudging of the numbers, but it is tiny," the [...]
America yearns for dirty details on the red-hot bold-name couple that is Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg. Today, the Post teases a von Furstenberg interview coming in Thursday's Page Six Magazine.
What will Diane discuss?
Love:
"Barry has loved me unconditionally for 34 years."
Loss:
"I did leave him, and I went" [...]
Fresh off Monday’s failure to override Gov. David Paterson’s veto of an ethics bill, NYPIRG is offering up a “ComplaintWatch” or a friendly reminder about some of the ethical complaints that have been lodged with watchdog agencies as of late.
Here it is.
Councilman Larry Seabrook (D-Bronx) has reportedly been hit with a 13-count indictment on federal charges of money laundering, conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, mail and wire fraud, extortion, and receiving an unlawful gratuity. Insiders told the Times that the Democrat—who represents [...]
This bill wasn't it.
This' [...]
Losing our Metrocards to budget cuts would prevent students from so many low-income and middle-income families from grasping success.
My mother is a single parent. She is putting two kids through college — one at Howard University and the other at St. John’s in Queens — and she still has to [...]
At the request of a commenter on my recent post, I am posting a second, more detailed chart on the relationship of graduation rates to the percent of self-contained special education students. Graduation Rates decline as the percentages of self-contained students in a school rise. As self-evident as this [...]
Kerik and The Decider during happier times. Poor Bernard Kerik shouldn't have to spend much time in prison because of his "extraordinary public service," and his "extraordinary and meteoric rise from truly humble origins wrought with hardship," his defense lawyers argue.' [...]
'Renewal' year's magic word, as litigious lock-ins dominated uncertain annum for the Manhattan office...
[...]The Yankees built a new park with closer and shorter outfield fences, hit a lot of homers and won the World Series. The Mets built their new park with reasonable distances and higher walls ("they ...
Continue reading "Mets Lower Outfield Wall, Will Still Suck" > " [...]We turn to the Streetsblog Network for a little inspiration this morning, courtesy of Robin Chase -- author of the blog Network Musings and former CEO of Zipcar. Chase shares a story from a friend in India, Vinay Jayaswal, who believes that meaningful change on the most [...]
Yesterday was all doom and gloom for the future of print over at The New York Times, which reported an average newsstand loss in the magazine industry of 9.1 percent and an overall circulation decline of 2.2 percent from the previous year. While we [...]
With many cases stemming from an outbreak at a Jewish boys' summer camp upstate, more than 1,000 in New York and New Jersey are infected with the mumps, most of them Orthodox Jews. One camper—who caught the old-fashioned childhood disease in England where more' [...]
YMMV and maybe it's a shade long, but we liked this dance animation made from objets d'art at the Met Museum by one Nina Paley. ...
Continue reading "Video: Dancing Artworks from the Met Museum" > ' [...]
22-year-old Brooklyn Decker (born in Ohio and raised in North Carolina, obvs) is gracing this year's cover of the Sport Illustrated Swimsuit issue. David Letterman says this issue (and the much coveted cover spot) is still [...]
Seems like the Republican National Committee is disguising a fundraising letter as a Census form! I got this email from Congressman Loebsack of Iowa:
I was very disappointed when I heard from concerned citizens in the 2nd District that Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, has sent a fundraising [...]
While everyone still jaws about the allegedly forthcoming David Paterson scandal, the Bowery Boys look back to historical precedent for removal of a New York governor -- not to Eliot Spitzer, but ...
Continue reading "David Paterson Controversy Recalls Another Scandal-Plagued Governor (No, Not That One)" [...]
From Ray Rivera:
City Councilman Larry B. Seabrook is expected to turn himself in to federal authorities in Manhattan on Tuesday to face a 13-count indictment accusing him of money laundering, extortion and fraud, a person briefed on the matter said.
Mr. Seabrook, a three-term Bronx councilman and former state [...]
Former terror trial supporter and current terror trial opponent Mayor Bloomberg asked the federal government to offer some kind of guarantee that it would cover the costs of bringing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspected 9/11 plotters to justice in New [...]
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