It wasn’t all that long ago that supporting nuclear power as a Democrat in New York State was an easy way to lose an election.
"In 1992 I was in a three-way race for the State Assembly," said Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, whose opponents in that race were a high school math teacher in his fifties Read More
Cuomo Cracks Down On Loan Rangers
As any parent knows, the cost of a college education has grown exponentially over the last quarter-century. As tuition has gone up, the government’s commitment to financial assistance has gone down, forcing millions of students to rely on conventional loans. It’s not unusual for students to be handed a Read More
America can now sleep easier knowing that John Ashcroft is hot on Lynne Stewart’s trail. Having failed last year to prosecute Ms. Stewart, the Attorney General has now brought new charges and, if he gets his way, Ms. Stewart will face five to 15 years in jail. Just who is this dangerous woman, and why Read More
The Republican Party no doubt figured it had gotten rid of a nasty problem when its U.S. Senators elected William Frist of Tennessee as majority leader to replace the disgraced Trent Lott. After all, Senator Frist has been declared, by himself and by friends in the media, as nothing less than the Beltway’s answer to Read More
Years ago, Ronald Reagan’s former Labor Secretary, Ray Donovan, found himself cleared of corruption allegations. “Where do I go,” he asked, “to get my reputation back?”
The five youths accused, convicted and jailed in the Central Park jogger case in 1989 have an even more profound question to ask: Where can they go to retrieve Read More
Why aren’t Governor George Pataki and Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton lifting a finger to protect the lives of the 20 million Americans who live in New York City and the suburbs of Westchester, Orange, Rockland, Putnam, Bergen and Fairfield counties? If that sounds drastic, that’s because it is: Despite ample evidence that the Read More
This was supposed to be a bad year for Entergy, the New Orleans–based company that owns the Indian Point nuclear power plants in Westchester County. On the defensive in the months following Sept. 11 about operating a Three Mile Island–sized facility with a flawed safety record just 35 miles north of Times Square, Entergy was Read More
The noisy public debate over the fate of the Indian Point nuclear reactor came to City Hall on May 7, when energy-company executives, state officials and anti-nuke environmentalists testified before the City Council. There were a couple of novel highlights during the hearings-for example, one executive got into a discussion with a council member about Read More
Structural engineer Nausherwan Hasan used to talk about the
sturdiness of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester, 30 miles
north of Manhattan, and took pride over the years as the facility churned out
safe, relatively clean power for much of metropolitan New York. Mr. Hasan knows
about these things: He helped build Indian Read More
In a city forever stunned and horribly awakened by the
terrorist attack of Sept. 11, there ought to be a new awareness of the ways in
which unexpected and “impossible”
events can-and do-happen. This is why every New Yorker, provided with the
facts, must conclude that the Indian Point 2 and Indian Point 3 nuclear Read More
