Author: Yoda

The latest edition of City Hall News has a front page article about Mayor Bloomberg being criticized over Cathy Black, the Citytime scandal & the snow.

http://www.cityhallnews.com/newyork/article-1737-weathering-the-storm.html

Pushing back against the idea that Mike is being criticized more now than in his first two terms is Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson:

Whenever there is a labor dispute involving athletes and management, I almost always support the millionaire workers rather than the billionaire owners.

But sometimes even union members just don’t understand what it’s like in the real word.

On Politico.com, there is an article about the NFL Players Association mounting a lobbying and PR campaign urging members of congress to push the owners to strike a deal.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/house/jared-lee-loughner-was-a-regis.html

Suspected Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner registered as an independent voter in Arizona in the fall of 2006, according to the Pima County Registrar of Voters.

From Politico –

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0111/A_guy_for_vicechair.html

In the complicated rules of the Republican National Committee, a male chairman must have a female co-chairman, and vice versa

Former Mayor Ed Koch defended Republican Congressman Peter King by saying:

Peter King is no Johnny-Come-Lately to the cause of protecting America from terrorists.  

Wednesday’s Post confirmed that the Independence Party slipped to the No. 5 ballot spot behind the Conservative & Working Family Parties.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/if_you_re_con_then_you_re_on_6Trwj4ulcCPrCwQcNvw1cI

Friday’s Wall Street Journal had a very good story about the State government failing to go after Pedro Espada in 1995.

But for some reason, the story did not list the name of the man who was Governor at the time.

I wonder why.

Hmm, could it be because the Governor wasn’t named Cuomo, Spitzer or Paterson?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703395204576023843352497746.html

Governor Paterson, in an attempt to justify his giving $16.7 million in discretionary money to among others, the millionaire owners of the NFL in support of the Super Bowl in New Jersey, said –

“This money, it is not spent. It could not be used to save jobs, and could not be sent back to the treasury,”

Tuesday’s Daily News joins the chorus claiming that Republicans will be supporters of Andrew Cuomo.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/12/07/2010-12-07_andys_biggest_welcome_may_be_from__gop.html

Capitol insiders say GOPers share many of Democrat Cuomo's priorities, especially his call to reduce state spending without raising taxes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/business/media/01fox.html

The Fox Business Network focused on what it called “The War on Business” all last week, but on Tuesday its coverage was decidedly more focused — with a series of reports about a California ballot initiative that its parent company, the News Corporation, had spent $1.3 million to defeat.

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Yet in its expanded coverage of the issue, Fox did not disclose the News Corporation’s donation to a group working to defeat Proposition 24.