A two-parter in honor of state assemblymember Richard Brodsky’s last-second hearings on new public funding for the Yanks and Mets stadium deals, which get voted on this Friday. From part one: 10:57: Levine and Pinsky are finally seated at the … Continue reading
With hearings and a vote coming up this week on the latest round of Yanks and Mets stadium subsidies, I provide a stadium shenanigans FAQ: This will be, with any luck, the last time I have to write about Yankee … Continue reading
There’s nothing like having to read a 116-page collection of economic mumbo-jumbo at 11 pm to put me in a fine fettle: Amid today’s hoopla over the Bloomberg administration’s decision to give back its free luxury boxes at the Mets’ … Continue reading
Geared toward small-business owners, but a worthwhile overview of coming legislation for the general public as well. I tackle health care, taxes, and credit cards: Health care: Still on the critical list Last year: The cost of providing health insurance … Continue reading
The long-awaited death of Coney Island looks like it may finally be at hand, and there’s plenty of blame to go around: Coney Island in winter always feels desolate, but this year the spooky whistle the wind makes as it … Continue reading
Paul Krugman has an excellent column in today’s New York Times, making some of the same points I made last week about how education and other social services (food stamps, anyone?) are just as deserving as “stimulus” spending as, say, … Continue reading
Yes, “Condos Fizzle While Homelessness Burns” would have made a better Nero reference, and it’s what I suggested originally, but character counts are a harsh mistress. In any case, read on about how New York is facing a simultaneous housing … Continue reading
New York is looking at massive cuts in school spending – should an education bailout be part of Obama’s economic rescue package? Anyone reading headlines of late has to feel like we’re on the fast track to apocalypse: Unprecedented bus … Continue reading
More e-mails between city officials have emerged in the Yankees stadium funding controversy, and it looks increasingly likely that the city helped manipulate land assessments to allow the Yanks to use taxpayer-subsidized financing: As Juan Gonzalez first reported in this … Continue reading
The sports industry is getting hit hard by the sinking economy, and you know what that means: While most people’s attention focused on the Big Three auto execs’ hybrid-car rally from Detroit to Washington, another prominent American industry was starting … Continue reading