When is a welfare scam not a welfare scam? If you read the Which Lazy Bastards Are Ripping You Off section of yesterday’s tabloids — you can find it after the Who Is Sandra Bullock Not Sleeping With/Adopting section — … 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
A newspaper report claims the Tampa Bay Rays could reap $40 million a year in added revenue from a new stadium. Does it pass the smell test? For those of you who read the Tampa Tribune religiously — and who … Continue reading
Mayor Bloomberg picks his top welfare policy aide to tackle homeless services. What you think of this likely depends on what you thought of his welfare policies: City Hall announced a major shakeup in its top human services staff today, … Continue reading
Can Mikhail Prokhorov’s business dealings with Zimbabwe derail his plan to buy the New Jersey Nets and move them to Brooklyn? Well, maybe: It’s Day Three of the Great Zimbabwe Flap, and the rhetoric over a New Jersey Congressman’s challenge … Continue reading
Ten-percent unemployment be damned, New York City is still successfully placing welfare recipients in jobs. But what kind of jobs? The most remarkable thing about the job placement trend chart posted on the city Human Resources Administration website each month … 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
With Haiti starting to drop out of the news again (despite continued problems there for earthquake survivors, not least of which is the rain), it’s an apropos time for my article to appear on how the media covered the Haitian … Continue reading
My adventures with the forces of demographic tabulation: Unlike my colleague Jen Doll, I have not filled out my census form yet, for the simple reason that I haven’t received it. It’s possible that my upstairs neighbors have it, or … Continue reading