Room Eight | Category | News and Opinion

Our Efficiently Inefficient System of Injustice

Larry Littlefield | September 13, 2015

Stunning news arrived from the world of sports last week. http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/09/01/tom-brady-new-england-patriots-deflategate-ruling “New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game suspension...

Election Day: Playing it By The Numbers (Part 2)

Rock Hackshaw | September 11, 2015

Dateline: Tuesday 8th September, 2015; Diamond Vale, Trinidad, West Indies. After three weeks of blistering days and nights, where...

“Documenting The Decline of the City”

Larry Littlefield | September 6, 2015

When you know what I do about state and local government revenues and expenditures (and I’ve worked very hard...

Playing It By the Numbers

Rock Hackshaw | September 5, 2015

Dateline: Friday 4th September; Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies. Come next Monday morning, these twin-islands of roughly 2000...

Homeless & Forced to Sleep in a Restaurant with her Daughter

Dominic Carter | September 4, 2015

This was one tough story to do. Profiling a Staten Island woman who found herself Homeless, and forced to...

Mt. Vernon Mayor: I’m Smarter than all the candidates on this stage combined

Dominic Carter | August 27, 2015

During the debate in the hotly contested race for Mayor of Mt. Vernon, the incumbent Ernie Davis declared he...

The American and New York Economy: Stagnation and Oligarchy or Renewal and Entrepreneurship?

Larry Littlefield | August 23, 2015

One of the more positive trends of the past few years has been the acknowledgement by at least some...

Cuomo starting Quarterback-Deblasio not even on JV Team

Dominic Carter | August 23, 2015

Yet again, Governor Andrew Cuomo has shown Mayor Bill Deblasio that Deblasio is not in his league politically. This...

Public Employee Pensions In NY and NJ: 2013 Data (and Commentary on NYC Comptroller Stringer’s Deceptions, Etc.)

Larry Littlefield | August 15, 2015

This is a “give the people what they want” post. After recently completing two analyses of public employee pensions...

De Blasio is in Trouble

Dominic Carter | August 12, 2015

The Warning Signs are everywhere for the City’s Incumbent Mayor. He’s badly losing at every turn, the battle against...