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Harry Siegel

A First Responder’s Focus Is Still Blurry

Five years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, some things seem every bit as strange as they were in the hours and days after the Twin Towers collapsed.

Rudy Giuliani has emerged as the front-runner for the Republican Presidential nomination, despite having told first responders, many of whom have fallen ill, that it was Read More

Back to the Future For Mayoral Hopefuls

It’s back to the future in New York. It’s 2001, as Freddy Ferrer again looks poised
to elect Michael Bloomberg, and it’s 1997, as an uninspired Democratic field is
setting itself up for defeat in a low-turnout general election. Democrats never
doubted that they’d return to Grace Mansion once Rudy Giuliani was Read More

Back to the Future For Mayoral Hopefuls

It’s back to the future in New York. It’s 2001, as Freddy Ferrer again looks poised to elect Michael Bloomberg, and it’s 1997, as an uninspired Democratic field is setting itself up for defeat in a low-turnout general election. Democrats never doubted that they’d return to Grace Mansion once Rudy Giuliani was term-limited out of Read More

The Creative Class Will Save Us All!

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everyone did creative things all the time and got rich, enlightened and satisfied in the process? Richard Florida certainly thinks so.

Mr. Florida, a public-policy professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, has managed to create a lifestyle brand name from the self-evident idea that post-industrial economies need imaginative, intelligent Read More