In the interest of drumming up maximal funds—or "transparency"—Barack Obama‘s Presidential Inauguration Committee has released a chart (to be updated in real time) listing the names, employers, cities, and contributions of everyone who donates money to help make January 20 the best inauguration ever. The PIC won’t be accepting any more than $50,000 Read More
Last month, whispers that the sprawling triplex belonging to the late Laurance Rockefeller at 834 Fifth Avenue was making its way onto the market fluttered through Manhattan’s high-stakes real-estate circles, with the prospects of a record-setting asking price starting a race among an elite pack of Upper East Side brokers eager to catch the coveted Read More
It was more than a little disturbing to discover last week that City Comptroller William Thompson, the man in charge of the city’s finances and manager of $80 billion in pension funds, has been unable, or unwilling, to keep accurate financial records of his own campaign contributions. Either Mr. Thompson is hiding something, or he’s Read More
Now that Senator John McCain of Arizona has won his crusade for democracy and open government in New York, he has to face a reality almost as fearsome as New York’s election laws: As he gears up for the state’s Presidential primary on March 7, he has few supporters, little money and negligible organization to Read More
