The bailout bill isn’t exactly working wonders, but one longtime Wall Street critic still think it was a necessary first step: When millions were cheering on the House of Representatives last week for initially saying no to the Wall Street … Continue reading
Now that the House of Representatives has torpedoed the Wall Street bailout bill, maybe they’ll be ready to consider the modest proposal I put forth in this week’s Metro column: Washington scrambled this past week to approve a $700 billion … Continue reading
When is a park not a park? When it’s a parking lot. Readers of today’s New York Daily News (the Bronx edition, anyway) saw a lovely 1960s-vintage photo of a park near Yankee Stadium, accompanied by a report that the … Continue reading
The economy is crashing harder than Travis Barker’s plane, so why are some New Yorkers breathing a sigh of relief? I’d say it was about 15 minutes after Lehman Brothers suffered total existence failure that I got the first instant … Continue reading
The issue of how the Yankees are funding their new stadium has exploded all over the newspapers in recent days, thanks in large part to state assemblymember Richard Brodsky issuing a 33-page report criticizing the deal, and U.S. Rep. Dennis … Continue reading
You won’t find it in the paper (they ran out of trees), but it’s officially a Village Voice article, not a Village Voice blog item: My review, in advance of the final games for Yankee and Shea Stadiums, of other … Continue reading
Two brushes with media greatness for me today: I’m quoted in today’s New York Times, on page B5, in an article on the luxury suite that New York City officials are getting for their own use at the new Yankees … Continue reading
New York is looking to take advantage of new federal welfare regulations to expand access to education and training. But will it be tripped up by budget woes and bureaucratic foot-dragging? New federal rules are opening the door for New … Continue reading
I’ve written about the scene at the Project FAIR help desk for welfare recipients before; today I tell the stories of two women I met last week that exemplify how trying to jump through welfare’s nonsensical hoops can be a … Continue reading