E.J. McMahon’s Empire Center for New York State Policy just tossed up on its Web site a lovely gift to political reporters and junkies: A complete list, obtained via FOIL request, of legislative pork, known in Albany as “member items.”
The list, the release notes, includes 83 Little League grants in 2005 alone. (And Read More
Alana
Marian Jones
May 17, 2005
11 a.m.
7 pounds
Beth Israel
Medical Center
Sippy
cups be damned! Little Alana Jones was named after the pattern of the elegant
Waterford crystal in her family’s two-bedroom in Peter Cooper Village. “I
thought it was Read More
About six months ago, an Airborne Express guy sped into my office to make a delivery. He was short but built, with sad eyes and a big smile. He handed me a clipboard. “How’s it going?” I asked him. “Can’t complain,” he said. “Please sign line 23.” The same thing happened every day for months: Read More
What in the world is Carl McCall thinking? Several years ago, the State Comptroller got into hot water when it was learned that, three days after a Los Angeles financial firm gave the McCall campaign $16,000 in December 1997, the state pension fund invested $85 million in a fund managed by that same firm. At Read More
