It was the day after Thanksgiving at the Chelsea office of Talking Points Memo, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in November. The place was quiet but still in business. Three reporters sat in the pit, watching three separate flat-screen televisions–playing FoxNews, CNN and C-Span, respectively–the sounds competing with one another and filling the room with Read More
News junkies are gamers.
Ask your friends a question about the latest news tidbit—say, where President Obama and the First Lady went on their dinner date this weekend. Then watch them whip out their iPhones, flip open their laptops, racing to find the right answer. Within seconds, they’ll emerge from the scrolling sea of Google Read More
So, in an intriguing development for those of us obsessed with bloggy things, here's what Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo web site is going to look like after the relaunch that the Observer's Felix Gillette wrote about a while back.
It's kind of an interesting look, with the new front page featuring Read More
This doesn’t sounds like the Republican Party’s rebuilding is on the right path.
Former congressman Bob Ney said he lobbied incoming RNC Chairman Mel Martinez when he was the federal secretary for HUD.
According to Josh Marshall’s sister site, TPM Muckraker:
“Just two months after he left HUD in order to make a Read More
Josh Marshall’s spinoff, TPM Muckracker, has an interesting item about Albany Rep. John Sweeney.
He is apparently paying his wife a 10% commission on money she raises for his campaign, which “means that the Sweeneys benefitted personally from every contribution.”
Sweeney’s spokeswoman says there’s nothing unusual about; the reporter disagrees.
Gawker puts two and two together, and decides Mike is running for … King.
A new Gotham Gazette blog, Albany Matters, Wonkster has some questions about Marty Connor paying for his car out of his campaign account.
Liz Benjamin reports that Weld is leaning toward endoring Spencer.
And Josh Marshall formulates Read More
The Staten Island Advance reports that New York’s lone Republican congresssman is already playing defense on Social Security, in a demonstration of how big a headache this could become for House Republicans.
“Let me be clear,” Vito Fossella (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) told over 130 seniors at the center. “I do not support the privatization Read More
