As epic collapses go, Boston’s bid to host the 2024 Olympics wins points for speed, if nothing else. On Monday, Mayor Marty Walsh announced that he didn’t intend to sign the International Olympic Committee’s required pledge to cover any cost … Continue reading
When news broke recently that the London football club (that’s soccer to us Yanks) Tottenham Hotspur was thinking of designing its new stadium to be fit for American football (that’s football), several thoughts no doubt ran through the minds of … Continue reading
This article almost, but not quite, made it into a publication that shall remain nameless. Kill fee in hand, I now make it available to you here, free of charge. On the scale of recent Albany misdeeds – Client 9, … Continue reading
The Stupak Amendment follows in the long, sad tradition of restricting abortion access by class: Back when the debate over health care reform began — I believe it was a Tuesday, in the late Pleistocene — nobody expected that it … Continue reading
Sure, Brooklyn has become fashionable on Mayor Bloomberg’s watch, but can he make it livable? A few years back, when the New York real estate market still looked within reach of, say, itinerant op-ed writers, I got to spend some … Continue reading
Still more on Coney Island, this time an analysis of how we got here for Metro: It’s happy time in Coney Island! Sure, Astroland is still a vacant lot, as are the former batting cages and go-cart rides, and even … Continue reading
Why public schools need their own bailout. And pay no attention to that other guy who ripped off my topic today. At my son’s elementary school, the news that Gov. Paterson is proposing $223 million in midyear cuts to city … Continue reading
There’s nothing like getting sick to make you appreciate the hazards of getting sick: I caught a cold last week. No, it was not the swine flu. Though my head felt like it was going to explode, and I ran … Continue reading
Not everybody who’s happy Chicago didn’t get the 2016 Olympics is a right-wing Obama-hating loon: And so President Obama spent a day in Copenhagen for nothing: The 2016 Olympics will be held in Rio, not Chicago. Adding insult to injury, … Continue reading
Concern about global climate change isn’t actually doing much yet to forestall disaster: Remember global warming? It seems like only yesterday that we were watching bits of Antarctica flake off into the ocean — not to mention even less-gripping sights, … Continue reading