If the governor and legislative leaders don’t agree on a revenue forecast by Thursday, the new state comptroller – who was elected by the legislature – will decide the amount.
Hillary Clinton disclosed more information about the family charity she and her husband have run since 2001.
Hillary will be about Read More
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Gerald Johnson, a man with a Ph.D., an accurate eye and unstoppable hope, polls the state of Alabama almost daily. He does it for the powerful, 100,000-member Alabama Education Association. The A.E.A. spends a lot of its money and power in an effort to stop crafty, extreme political figures—known to use a strange combination Read More
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Gerald Johnson, a man with a Ph.D., an accurate eye and unstoppable hope, polls the state of Alabama almost daily. He does it for the powerful, 100,000-member Alabama Education Association. The A.E.A. spends a lot of its money and power in an effort to stop crafty, extreme political figures—known to use a strange combination Read More
I’m just back from New Orleans, and stunned and shocked. Nothing on television or in the papers conveys the scale of Katrina, six months on. You turn onto a boulevard and suddenly there’s a mountain of dead trees, gargantuan and muddy and scraped clean of branches and leaves by crews that left months ago.
That’s Read More
Riverhead, Long Island is looking to expand—shopping centers, businesses and esplanades—and is considering three proposals from private investors for apparently public use. Currently however, the land belongs to someone. And the town is taking careful steps to avoid using eminent domain to claim it.
Yesterday, The Real Estate pointed at a Read More
By 1966, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. had boycotted Montgomery buses, marched on Washington and secured the ballot for all races. When he arrived in Chicago in January, however, he was unable to do much of anything. In the city that had served as the Promised Land for thousands of blacks pushed north by Read More
Lars von Trier’s Manderlay, from his own screenplay, is the second installment of Mr. von Trier’s “American” trilogy following Dogville (2003), and is said to have been “inspired” by Jean Paulhan’s “Happiness Is Slavery” (the preface to Pauline Reage’s Story of O—purportedly a true story of Barbados slaves who unsuccessfully begged to be re-enslaved, then Read More
Lars von Trier’s Manderlay, from his own screenplay, is the second installment of Mr. von Trier’s “American” trilogy following Dogville (2003), and is said to have been “inspired” by Jean Paulhan’s “Happiness Is Slavery” (the preface to Pauline Reage’s Story of O—purportedly a true story of Barbados slaves who unsuccessfully begged to be re-enslaved, then Read More
New Yorkers who missed The Quilts of Gee’s Bend, an exhibition seen at the Whitney Museum of American Art during the winter of 2002-3, should have their collective knuckles soundly rapped. There can’t have been an excuse good enough to merit by passing a show that documented not only the triumph of American vernacular culture, Read More
Nightingale-Bamford School with my 17-year-old daughter. Juniors came from11 local schools and representatives were there from 125 colleges around the country. Nightingale was a gracious host, but sheer numbers made it a madhouse. My daughter will never be admitted to any school, said my friends. The competition is too intense-just look at this place. But Read More
