Staffing Up

Dovere to Politico

After five years at City Hall News, Edward-Isaac Dovere is leaving to take a job at Politico. His new title will be breaking news editor, a new position for the Washington-based outlet.

The president and CEO of the company that publishes City Hall News, Tom Allon, told me Dovere “joins a long line of Read More

When Comptroller Candidates Attack

Early on the morning of June 16, Melinda Katz, John Liu, David Weprin and David Yassky, the four Democratic candidates hoping to succeed Bill Thompson as city comptroller, gathered in the CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown and attempted to add zest to talk about municipal finance.

The forum was the candidates’ first Read More

When Comptroller Candidates Attack

Early on the morning of June 16, Melinda Katz, John Liu, David Weprin and David Yassky, the four Democratic candidates hoping to succeed Bill Thompson as city comptroller, gathered in the CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown and attempted to add zest to talk about municipal finance.
The forum was the candidates’ first and last Read More

The Recession Hops the 7 Train

Hours after Lehman Brothers said it would file for bankruptcy on the now infamous Sept. 15, 2008, Deputy Mayor Robert Lieber—a former Lehman executive himself—professed an aggressive approach to the Bloomberg administration’s economic development agenda.

With a little over a year left in office, Mr. Lieber said during an interview in City Hall at the Read More