Giuliani's Favorite Days

Yesterday, amid all the attention about Rudy Giuliani's donations to Planned Parenthood, a column on the Christian Broadcasting Network points out that as mayor, Giuliani proclaimed June 14, 1997 Evangelical Christian Children's Parade Day in New York City. The point, according to the writer, is that

"sometimes we think we know Read More

Rudy's Abortion Issue

Since Rudy Giuliani gave his especially malleable answer to a question about whether Roe v Wade should be overturned during the Republican debate, conservatives have been increasingly scrutinizing the former mayor's abortion position. Now one of the candidate's in the Republican primary has explicitly said Giuliani's stance should prevent him from winning the nomination. Read More

Top Non-Profit Broker Dies

Arlene Wysong, a leading commercial real estate broker, died today of lung cancer. She was 66.

Wysong was the co-director of the non-profit division at Colliers ABR. In her 23-year career, she brokered lease deals totaling $1 billion.

At a time when non-profits are panicking with how to keep a presence in the city, Wysong Read More

Big Heart

You kind of have to like the Daily News’s “Big Town, Big Heart” “Big Heart, Big City” feature, if only as a form of moral rehab for reporters.

And it’s edited by my old friend (so to speak) Dawn Eden, the only person ever fired from the New York Post for being too right-wing. (Here’s Read More

Schumer v. Alito

Well, that didn’t take long. As I started to write an item on New York’s senior Senator and the new SCOTUS nominee, Judge Samuel Alito, the following popped up from Chuck:

“It is sad that the President felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide America instead of choosing a nominee Read More