McCain's NY Fund-Raisers Plot New Strategy, Too

More on John McCain’s revamped find-raising operation…

His New York regional finance committee will have a meeting this coming Friday at the Regency in midtown Manhattan to discuss fund-raising strategy in what will be a crucial second quarter for the Arizona senator, according to a source in the campaign.

According to the source, McCain’s schedule Read More

Ferraro's Words of Encouragement for Edwards

I caught up this morning with former Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, who was breakfasting at the Regency Hotel this morning with City Council Melinda Katz, and who briefly dropped in on John Edwards’ fund-raising event in another room.

Ferraro, who said she has received the same kind of treatment Elizabeth Edwards is now going Read More

Events for Friday, February 9, 2007

8:30 a.m. Rudy Giuliani has a fund-raiser at the Regency Hotel.

9:30a.m. Hillary Clinton speaks at Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion’s state of the Borough speech at Hostos Community College.

9:30 a.m. State Senator Carl Kruger and others rally to protect gifted programs for elementary students at PS 193 in Brooklyn.

10 a.m. Hasidic Read More

The Crime Blotter

Some People Can Take No for an Answer

While the city and the nation remain on high alert for the next terrorist attack, some common criminals apparently don’t consider themselves in any peril of falling prey to the heightened security. On Oct. 14, a 29-year-old man was walking home along the Upper East Side Read More