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Bloomberg’s Do-Gooder Charity

In October of 2007, Mayor Bloomberg and Bette Midler gathered in the Bronx–”right where J-Lo comes from,” according to the mayor–to shovel some dirt around the roots of a Carolina silver bell.

A band played. There were speeches. And there was a lot of excitement about Mayor Bloomberg and his new MillionTrees initiative, which Read More

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New York Without Law & Order Is Like….

Michael Bloomberg says good-bye to Law & Order, a major television production based in New York, and a source of lots of jobs for actors and production people.

The irony, I think, is that New York (politics, at least) is producing lots of stories made for the big and small screen (Spitzer, Paterson, Monserrate, etc.). Read More

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The Mayor’s Pet Projects

Mayor Bloomberg’s presentation of his budget last week was not an uplifting one. Standing before a room packed full of reporters in the West Wing of City Hall, he clicked through a PowerPoint presentation that made it very clear how bad the city’s fiscal problems are.

Under Mr. Bloomberg’s proposed budget, the Read More