2012: “Donald Trump, fiddling with birth certificates, is an amateur compared with Mr. Gingrich at sliming the Obama administration — as well as Democrats, Muslims, blacks and gay men and lesbians.” [New York Times]
Same-Sex Marriage: Cuomo hasn’t called legislators directly. [Duncan Osborne]
City Hall: Bloomberg “can’t even buy himself support anymore.” 40% poll number is the “new normal.” [Adam Lisberg]
Albany: “Not surprisingly, the Legislature doesn’t want to pass real ethics reform,” says Albany. [Ken Lovett]
Living Wage: Activist who say living wage study was written by biased economist had different things to say when the same economist was critical of Wal-Mart. [Sally Goldenberg]
Homeless: Bronx Councilwoman reveals she was once homeless; spoke at Bloomberg ribbon cutting for new facility. [David Seifman]
Tickets: “There’s no such thing as ‘diplomatic immunity’ from paying parking tickets” says Grimm, who joins Reps. King and Towns in trying to remove DPL plates from scofflaw diplomats. [SA Miller]
Probe: Auditors comb through discretionary spending by Buffalo Common Council. [Brian Meyer]
Corruption: Details of the home former State Senator Leibell built with help of a contractor who provided “deeply discounted” work. [William Rashbaum]
Rate Hike:Cuomo and Bloomberg try staving off a 12 percent spike in electric bills next month. [Devlin Barrett]
Pay Hike: Control board blocks retroactive raises for Buffalo firemen. [Brian Meyer]
One World Trade: After spending $10 million, no shimmering glass around base of the building. [Charles Bagli]
