If you’ve been wondering where my non-baseball writing has gone to recently, I have a bunch of stuff in the pipeline that’s going to start showing up in print (and in pixels) in coming weeks. And the first of these … Continue reading
A multi-year campaign to require that all employees in New York City receive paid sick time (which I first wrote about last fall) was quashed in October by city council speaker Christine Quinn. What happened, and what does it mean … Continue reading
As part of City Limits’ series on what New York is getting itself in for with its next governor, I look at Carl Paladino and Andrew Cuomo’s job-development plans (but mostly Cuomo’s, because Paladino had to leave the story early … Continue reading
I’m not sure exactly why NPR.org is running content from National Review Online, but if they’re all as unintentionally funny as this one, I’m all in favor of it. In today’s story, Michael Tanner of the arch-libertarian Cato Institute (one … Continue reading
For anyone wondering whether Obama’s reported plan to give lots of investment tax breaks to businesses is really that bright an idea, Robert Reich today gives a resounding “no way, no how“: The economy needs two whopping corporate tax cuts … Continue reading
Stephen Goldsmith, the former Indianapolis mayor who started work June 1 as Mayor Bloomberg’s new deputy mayor for operations, has been hailed as a visionary. Just not by the people who actually experienced his Indianapolis reforms. When Mayor Bloomberg tapped … Continue reading
New York’s new public advocate, former city councilmember (and Hillary Clinton campaign director) Bill de Blasio, has been mostly talk since his election last fall — but for city’s “ombudsman,” speaking loudly might be the most effective tool of all. … Continue reading
When Mayor Bloomberg threatened to cut all kinds of services back in January, turns out he wasn’t kidding: The big headline from Mayor Bloomberg’s announcement yesterday of his final city budget plan was that 6,414 city school jobs would be … Continue reading
Now that New York City’s comptroller has charged that the city’s development arm illegally withheld $125 million in revenues from the city treasury, does he actually have a shot at getting it back? Comptroller John Liu’s finding that the Economic … Continue reading