The G.O.P. is at war with itself. Or so we’re told.
Unaccustomed to their new minority status and unsure how to handle a Democratic president with enormous popularity and considerable legislative momentum, Republicans are dividing themselves into opposing camps, each convinced that a different formula will return them to glory.
This, at least, is the Read More
The power of the American Presidency to move the environmental agenda was never more apparent than during President Obama’s recent directive to EPA to reconsider California’s request to set tighter air emission and fuel efficiency standards. Under the Clean Air Act, California has long had the authority to exceed federal standards and typically it has Read More
DENVER—Barbara Boxer just spoke to the convention, one of eight female Democratic senators (none of them named Hillary Clinton) to offer brief remarks. (This parade of women was introduced with a video message from Clinton.) Boxer spoke optimistically about the party’s prospects this fall, both in the presidential race and in Senate contests.
“When Read More
The Presidential nominating conventions are now approaching, first the Democrats’ and then the Republicans’. The President hangs out at the Olympics, stomps his feet over the Russian invasion of Georgia and then makes another pass at gutting the Endangered Species Act by reducing the time and scientific analysis needed to assess the environmental impact of Read More
Every four years, involving one party or the other, it seems that we get a batch of stories just like Republicans have succeeded in projecting an image that is not only at total variance with their record but in contradiction of their own platform,” then-Senator Robert Torricelli harrumphed – but Read More
Michael Bloomberg is hosting a fund-raiser at his townhouse on June 9 for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, according to two invitees I spoke to.
Villaraigosa, a Democrat, came up as a possible gubernatorial candidate in an L.A. Times column yesterday.
That would, of course, make him a potential successor to Bloomberg Read More
(via The Huffington Post.)
Michael Bloomberg made a hefty contribution towards Arnold Schwarzenegger’s effort to get legislative redistricting in California.
But some other notable New Yorkers have opened up their wallets and given to another Schwarzenegger venture: his campaign committee. That’s according to a financial report posted yesterday for Governor Schwarzenegger’s California Dream Team:
Ed Cox, son-in-law Read More
Michael Bloomberg is having another run at Albany lawmakers, but this time, he’s taking a less direct approach.
At an event in midtown yesterday afternoon, Bloomberg said he was donating money to help Arnold Schwarzenegger’s effort to push nonpartisan redistricting in California and said he hoped the efforts out there would advance the issue here. Read More
Michael Bloomberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke with Charlie Rose about the economic and political issues they’re facing at the annual Card Luncheon, which is going on at the Four Seasons in midtown right now.
Bloomberg acknowledged the economy is tough, but said that because the cost of construction is coming down, "if you Read More
