Category: News and Opinion

Another poem written by a young Guatemalan-born man named Otto Rene Castillo -now deceased: “Beyond the Scales Forever “

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And when the fantastic story of our time
is told
by those yet to be born
but who will announce themselves
with more generous face;
we will come out ahead:
those of us who have suffered most from it.

And that
being ahead of your time
means suffering much from it.

Well,
it's beautiful to love the world
with eyes that have not yet been born;
and it is splendid to know
you will be victorious
when all around you
is still so dark,
so cold.

Education Finance Repost

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It has been a heck of a couple of weeks. Between spam and all the Weiner traffic, I’m aware that some of those who wanted to read my series of posts on the latest elementary and secondary school finance data — and more important download the spreadsheets and print out the tables — may not have been able to do so. So I am attaching what I had written in an MS-Word document, along with the spreadsheets, to this post. The Word document may differ from what was finally posted, because I always find an extra typo or two right at the end. I’m not sure how the other writers on this site do it…at work all my reports have the benefit of an editor.

THE NEXT MAYORAL RACE IN NYC: “THINGS DONE CHANGED”.

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Now that Anthony Weiner has resigned from the House of Representatives, the complexion of NYC’s next mayoral race has changed. Weiner was the presumed frontrunner for the office, so his expected departure leaves a significant void.

At this point in time these are the main contenders: Bill Thompson, Bill DiBlasio, Christine Quinn, John Liu, Scott Stringer, Adolfo Carrion and Marty Markowitz. Of course there are one or two others who claim to be considering the run, but so far these seven appear to be the key contenders.

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