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Tom McGeveran

WOOD WAR: 05.20.2009

The New York Post: The thing about writing a column like this every day is that you realize, sometimes, the news does not move very fast. We’ve already talked quite a bit about the Astor trial, which takes up pretty much the entire front page of the Post today. Yesterday’s testimony was the stuff we’ve Read More

WOOD WAR: 05.19.2009

New York Daily News: Sometimes on a Monday you’re on the elevator with a coworker and you’re not sure what to say, so you say, “Do anything interesting this weekend?” And sometimes the person tells you “Yes, I saw [insert movie name here.]” So you say, “How was it?” And they only have a few Read More

WOOD WAR: 05.18.2009

The city both explicitly linked Wiener’s death to underlying conditions and did a bit of quick policy work, issuing a warning to anyone exposed to the virus who has an underlying condition to be tested even if they have no symptoms.

WOOD WAR: 05.15.2009

The New York Post: ‘PIGGY BACK!’ Yes, the swine flu seems to be back with a vengeance in Northeastern Queens, where late yesterday afternoon the city shut three schools down after clusters of illness suggested prevalent swine flu among students and faculty. Over 1,500 students are now without anyplace to go for the next five Read More

WOOD WAR: 05.13.2009

The New York Post: If you hadn’t been following yesterday’s National Transportation Safety Board hearings into the crash of Continental Flight 3407 outside Buffalo, in which all 49 people on board and one on the ground died, you’d be looking for a place to read the transcripts that were released there of the conversation in Read More