A Times First?

There was some talk that the Times’s decision to endorse in the Speaker’s race (The paper went for Quinn in the City Section Sunday.) was some kind of first.

The paper didn’t endorse in 2001, true; but a reader points back to this January 4, 1986 editorial in favor of Peter Vallone, titled “Taste Read More

Mark Green

Only a dozen or so years ago, Mark Green was the very personification of an unrepentant 60′s liberal. Forever tilting at windmills, constantly identifying new grievances, eternally assured of his own righteousness, Mr. Green seemed destined to grow gray in a tie-dyed shirt. He seemed to prefer the easy agitation of the press conference to Read More