The outcry from Congressional Democrats was justifiably loud when conservative members resorted to procedural chicanery to kill their latest effort to give the District of Columbia a vote in the House of Representatives.
After all, the district’s 580,000 residents are subjected to the same federal income tax that everyone else is: Didn’t we decide a Read More
Zack Snyder’s 300, from a screenplay by Mr. Snyder, Kurt Johnstad and Michael B. Gordon, based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, set a first-week box-office record for 2007—which is one of the two reasons I ventured to see it at a noontime showing at a local non-IMAX theater. The second Read More
I just got off the phone with state Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr., who is reportedly the subject of a federal investigation into voter fraud, along with his son, Assemblyman Ruben Diaz, Jr.
Which was all news to the elder Diaz.
“I don’t know anything about it. They haven’t contacted me yet. Nobody has Read More
So why would Republican Majority Leader Joe Bruno appoint Democrat Carl Kruger to head the Social Service Committee? In one sense, it helps firm up Bruno’s majority by maintaining friendly ties to a member of the growing Democratic minority.
But Liz sees more personal influences at play:
Kruger, as you may recall, released a statement Read More
Republican State Senator John Bonacic, who publicly called for Joe Bruno to step down from his leadership position in the face of an FBI probe, wasn’t in the Senate chamber when the conference re-elected Bruno to another two-year term.
Bonacic then avoided most of the reporters waiting for him at one of the Senate chambers Read More
Today, Joe Bruno is expected to be re-elected by Senate Republicans as their Majority Leader, despite an FBI probe into his business dealing with a lobbyist.
The lone dissenting vote is expected to come from John Bonacic of New Paltz, who told his colleagues the conference needs a new leader.
I chatted Read More
At a press conference having to do with a mental health bill, Governor Pataki addressed the Hevesi resignation. “I’m very concerned about the operations of the comptroller’s office…I’m concerned about the interim [before a replacement is appointed], what will happen.” The governor also said he wasn’t sure who exactly will sign the next round of Read More
As you may have heard, Joe Bruno held a press conference yesterday afternoon to announce he was under investigation by the F.B.I. Bruno said he made the disclosure after learning that reporters had discovered the existence of the probe.
The Post’s Fred Dicker says he was digging around Bruno’s consulting firm, Capital Business Read More
This morning, Judge Liam O’Grady ruled that New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof will not be forced to disclose his two FBI sources in a case brought against him by former Army scientist Steven Hatfill. However, by withholding the sources, sanctions were imposed against the newspaper.
Last month, the Times was ordered to reveal Mr. Read More
Who Controls The Schools?
Four years ago, Michael Bloomberg won a policy victory that had eluded his predecessors for decades: He persuaded Albany to grant him direct control over New York City’s public schools.
Gone with the stroke of a pen (and after intensive Mayoral lobbying) was the sprawling, unaccountable bureaucracy known as Read More
