No, Tom Brokaw is not running for President in 2004.
Last month, despite the urging of his powerful friends, the 61-year-old NBC anchorman categorically ruled out any sort of candidacy. And that should have been that.
But his friends won’t let the idea drop. Claiming to see no one with the stature to Read More
Intensifying a classic city-state confrontation, dozens of the city’s most powerful business and labor leaders are urging Governor George Pataki to sign legislation authorizing construction of a massive water-filtration plant in Van Cortlant Park in the Bronx.
Mr. Pataki has threatened to veto a bill needed to move the project forward, alarming private-sector leaders and Read More
In recent weeks, an incendiary fund-raising letter has been circulating among wealthy Upper East Side residents who are fighting the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s multimillion-dollar expansion plan.
“If the Museum goes ahead, it will own our lives until at least 2015,” the letter reads. “We have a window of opportunity to act now, before the Read More
Ending a municipal drama that has dragged on for years, city and state officials have reached a deal with the Bloomberg administration to support construction of a controversial $1.5 billion water-filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, The Observer has learned.
Theagreementwas reached in recent days during private discussions among State Assembly Speaker Read More
With Democrats gleefully making noise about taking on Michael Bloomberg in the 2005 Mayoral election, one potential challenger who is rich enough to finance his own campaign is about to unleash a series of television ads attacking the Mayor and promoting his own ideas for the city’s future.
John Catsimatidis, a 53-year-old grocery-store mogul who Read More
As he seeks to resuscitate the political fortunes of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, William Cunningham, the Mayor’s communications director, has been thinking a lot about another of his bosses, Hugh Carey-whose political career was nearly destroyed by a fiscal crisis a generation ago.
Mr. Cunningham worked for the formerGovernor throughoutthe 1970′s,aperiod when dire economic times came Read More
Only a year ago, few New York Democrats would have relished the thought of challenging Michael Bloomberg in the 2005 Mayoral election.
Although he was elected by the slimmest margin in city history, Mr. Bloomberg seemed to have hit upon a winning formula, garnering extensive praise as a post-partisan Mayor who got the city’s Read More
Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, who is in the midst of a bitter budget war with his fellow Republican,Governor George Pataki, is about to get help from a powerful ally: Local 1199, the hospital workers’ union. The union, which runs one of the most powerful political operations in the state, is preparing to spend $4 Read More
The last time the city found itself in such perilous condition, the Governor of New York, a Brooklyn Democrat named Hugh Carey, found himself begging, cajoling, demanding and otherwise twisting the arm of another Brooklyn Democrat, Mayor Abe Beame, to get on with the pain and sacrifice, regardless of the political cost.
Today, New York Read More
Sharon Bush, the estranged wife of President George W. Bush’s younger brother Neil, is planning to write a tell-all book about her two decades with the Bush family, The Observer has learned.
Ms. Bush, who lives in Texas, recently visited Manhattan to discuss her idea for the book with several publishing executives. She had a Read More
