photo of Hulbert Waldroup from the artist's website
Artist Hulbert Waldroup was arrested Friday for installing a sculpture outside a Harlem gallery, purportedly without permission from the gallery's owner. The Jersey City artist put his work "The Gates" — which consists [...]
Well, there is a deal. Not sure what it is going to to do or accomplish except continue the conversation. first some snips via the NYT then some thoughts.
COPENHAGEN — President Obama announced here on Friday night that five major nations, including the United States, had together forged a [...]
Surprise…surprise…surprise…stimulus money spent in partisan ways.
From Jerry Brito, Veronique de Rugy in their report:
For our analysis, we looked at the 435 congressional districts in the United States [...]
Normally, I would have updated the “Service Diversions” page with the latest scheduled diversions for the upcoming weekend & following week. However before I could even do that, the MTA announced that the scheduled diversions have been canceled due to the upcoming snow storm. Here are the complete details including [...]
President Obama addresses the UN Climate Change Conference (Reuters/Bob Strong), at right a journalist reads the latest scribbled revisions to a draft of the Copenhagen Accord (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus).
President Obama arrived in Copenhagen this morning to address the UN conference on [...]
What's a reasonable price for off-street bike parking? As New York City parking facilities start complying with the Bicycle Access to Garages Law, which took effect a little more than a month ago, the rates are looking pretty steep. This photo comes to [...]
Based on a CDC data study with 1.3 million people, two researchers have compiled a happiness index ranking residents of the fifty states from happiest to least so.
Ranking No. 1 in happiness was Louisiana, home of Dixieland music and Cajun/Creole cooking.
snip.
Rounding out the happy five were Hawaii, [...]
From HuffPo:
Based on a CDC data study with 1.3 million people, two researchers have compiled a happiness index ranking residents of the fifty states from happiest to least so.
Ranking No. 1 in happiness was Louisiana, home of Dixieland music and Cajun/Creole cooking.
snip.
Rounding out the happy five were Hawaii, [...]
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I saw the above while watching the SNL Christmas special on NBC last night…the bit is from 2004…it depicts some on both the left and right perfectly.
Ho, Ho, Ho…
[...]The NY State Department of Labor released November unemployment information, and the numbers were a little better over October's: The state rate is now 8.6%, down from 9% in October, while the NYC rate is 10%, down from 10.2% in October. (In 2008, the November state unemployment rate was' [...]
Farmers struggling to keep afloat amid record-low dairy prices are about to get $290 million in aid checks from the federal government, under a plan that particularly benefits the smaller, often family-owned operations of the northeast at the expense of large commercial dairies in California and Wisconsin.
Lawmakers from New York, [...]
Just a few days back cops arrested a man who allegedly phoned death threats to Mayor Bloomberg and Ray Kelly. Now 45-year-old Jack Geoghan of Inter County Appraisers of Bayport, New York, is accus...
Continue reading "Latest Death Threat Against New York Official: Jack Geoghan vs." [...]Actually, it is called a jobs bill because it builds physical things as opposed to rescuing “troubled assets.’ In the end it reallocates money allocated for TARP but no longer needed to local communities for infrastructure projects. Let’s be clear - TARP was a $700 billion dollar cash infusion to [...]
New York Times: Magazine publishers hope the long-awaited tablet digital device will finally help earn them some money, a promise the Internet has still not delivered on.
Observer: New York Times executive editor Bill Keller defends his letter to the Polk award committee, casting the latest barb [...]
Medical marijuana advocates protest outside the Somerset courthouse. 37-year-old John Ray Wilson has multiple sclerosis, and he's found that smoking the leaves of a certain plant helps alleviate his symptoms. So he grew 17 of the plants in the ground on his property.' [...]
The lobbying group Democrats for Education Reform got its start in New York, but is spreading fast. Its latest branch is in Michigan, where it’s going by MDFER (a bit of a mouthful). With chapters in five states, the organization is halfway to its goal of being in 10 [...]
We mentioned this earlier and there was a press conference scheduled about an hour ago, but here is a more complete statement from NYSUT, the School Boards and others on the lawsuit aimed at preventing Gov. Paterson from holding back school funding.
A broad coalition of education advocates and citizen taxpayers, [...]
