Michael Bloomberg said he would be “happy to testify” in support of same-sex marriage.
He also said the $300,000 in raises recently given to Department of Environmental Protection workers is “a trivial amount of money.”
Hello painful fare increase.
New Yorkers took Bloomberg’s advice, and vented.
Nicole Gelinas compares Albany to the lawmakers in New Orleans who let the levees fall into disrepair before Katrina.
There’s still time to undo the fare hike.
Peter Applebome looks at the people hit hardest by the fare hike on Long Island, which he says is “the bottom rung of the transit system.”
“What makes us New York is the subway,” says Michael Daly.
The New York Post editorial board wants Sheldon Silver to pass his own bill to toll the bridges.
Republican Jimmy Oddo is backing Democrat Melinda Katz for City Comptroller and Democrat Bill de Blasio for Public Advocate.
The Daily News links Hiram Monserrate's indictment to Chris Brown.
The Tin Pan Band says they’re playing for Bloomberg on March 29 (and that they're “like Ray Charles and Tom Waits at a New Orleans street party!”) [Good find Wolfson!]
Lawmakers strike a deal on the Rockefeller Drug Laws.
On Long Island, former Suffolk legislator George Guldi is among those charged with a $50 million mortgage scam “that began in a Manhattan fetish club.”
In Nassua, Tom Suozzi wants lower property taxes if the Albany raised income tax on the wealthy.
In White Plains, Assemblyman Adam Bradley forms a committee to run for mayor against incumbent Joseph Delfino, a Republican.
And at a meeting of the Stonewall Democrats last night, Mark Green explained how he helped get Rachel Maddow onto MSNBC.
