Thanks to the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center, the city’s payroll is now online, and searchable.
Here what a few of our civil servants make:
Deputy Mayor Kevin Sheekey:$196,574
Counsel to the Mayor, Anthony Crowell:$169,720
Outspoken City Council staffer Viola Plummer:$51,575
Michael Bloomberg's $1 salary is in the Read More
On a recent weekday afternoon, a handful of policy wonks sat in a corner office adorned with maps and books in the Vanderbilt Street headquarters of the Manhattan Institute discussing a political opportunity presented by the current financial crisis.
“We feel that the moment is here,” said Steve Malanga, an economic Read More
It is encouraging to see more and more honest conservatives asking themselves hard questions about the candidacy of Sarah Palin and its dumbing down of their party and movement. Some are more honest than others, of course. Clearly David Brooks understands why Palin could be a “fatal cancer” for the Republican Party, but for Read More
As the economy sours, ever-rising construction costs seem to be an in-vogue subject: Last night, the New York Building Congress released a report on the topic; the Manhattan Institute put out recommendations for controlling cost escalations earlier this month; and, on Monday, the Bloomberg administration announced a set of initiatives to lower Read More
Rudy Giuliani returned on April 25, 2006, from his first, unofficial forays on the presidential campaign trail to accept an award from the heterodox, New York-based conservatives who made him.
“It’s like coming home,” Mr. Giuliani told the members of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
Standing at a podium at Cipriani’s Read More
Here is a copy of the prepared remarks Michael Bloomberg delivered this morning in midtown to the Manhattan Institute, the conservative think tank that recently was in the news for providing Rudy Giuliani inaccurate data about cancer rates that found its way into his recent presidential campaign ad.
Here are the prepared Read More
