Bloomberg’s Terrifying-Yet-Optimistic Budget

There is plenty of bad news in the budget Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed today, but–hard as this may be to believe–it could have been worse.

The strategy from City Hall seems to have been to soften the blow, at least on the surface, of having to close a $4 billion budget gap by reducing city Read More

Fidler’s Zingers

Last night, the seven City Council members running for Speaker participated in a public debate at Baruch college, an odd forum for an election that will ultimately be decided through the deal making and power bartering of their colleagues in the chamber. Nevertheless, the debate for “who will hold the second most powerful job in Read More

The Heartbreak Kid

On Monday, Feb. 23, Gloria Riviera, a 29-year-old ABC News off-air “embed” with Senator John Edwards’ Presidential campaign, flipped open the viewer on her handheld Sony PD-150 digital camera-adorned with a beat-up silver sticker that read “Girls Rock!”-and then played the following video clip:

The campaign’s chartered 737 was about to take off in Ohio; Read More