NYC2016?

Dan and Mike have been maintaining for a while that the Olympic bid is now or never, and the deputy mayor makes the point particularly strongly in the Washington Post today:

“Our bid today is a combination of a unique series of resources that I’m not sure are replicable,” Doctoroff said in an interview. Read More

Will City Foot the Bill For Olympic Overruns?

Standing before a crowd of high-school students that had been nicely primed—the students leaped to their feet as they watched gymnasts Paul and Morgan Hamm execute simultaneous back-flips—the last thing Mayor Bloomberg expected was a razzing.

By half the auditorium.

Nevertheless, for a good 20 seconds at A. Philip Randolph High School in Harlem Read More