Spitzer Said to Pick Next ESDC Chair

Newsday’s Errol Cockfield and the Daily News’ Ben Smith are reporting that Patrick Foye, the president and chief executive of the United Way of Long Island, will be Eliot Spitzer’s pick to chair the Empire State Development Corporation–the first time in 20 years that the post would not be held by a Read More

Politics

411 on 211, cont’d.

So we may be the only ones who care, but we wanted to follow up our Monday item in which we were perplexed to see Hillary pushing what looked like an alternative to the Mayor’s cherished 311 non-emergency call center, something called 211.

We spoke to a Bloomberg aide last week, who sounded as Read More

In the Red Zone, A.k.a. the Land Of O’Reilly

Your correspondent begins his diary this year in Jacksonville, Fla. It’s a metropolis of 1.3 million in the northeast corner of the state–a place where the local landscape could probably best be described as “Generic America.” Consider the directions to the house we’re living in while I work on a film that’s shooting down here: Read More