Manhattan
State Senate
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Manhattan
State Senate
I had just checked out of the Downtown (as opposed to Uptown) Super 8 (I’d been staying in Room 199, not 8) in Charlotte (Uptown is an appropriate name for an “Up” sort of neighborhood and Downtown is similarly well named).
Dateline, Charlotte, NC
"Our Boys are Killing One Another."
It turns out the Generation Greed bond in Poway, California that I wrote about here is not alone. I just followed a link to this from National Public Radio. “Look, there's no doubt that this has happened in dozens if not hundreds of school districts around California. I mean, we're already finding them; we've been sort of broadening our scope and we're actually publishing a piece today that shows three other local school districts that have very similar deals to Poway's. This is a multi,-multi-billion dollar issue across the whole of the state. Tens of billions of dollars of debt out there in this type of creative financing.”
What about New York, where these horrors are cooked up. Did some of our government entities snort our own supply? The MTA perhaps, or Nassau County, or the State of New York?
Dateline: Charlotte, NC
Caveat #1: At a convention, logistics dictate all.
Dateline: Charlotte, NC
I originally intended to separate my Gateways from convention coverage, but two things militated against that.
Dateline: Charlotte, North Carolina.
For the participants, and I don’t only mean the delegates, political conventions are all about status, logistics and choices.
"Our Boys are Killing One Another."
The words from of the Pastor of New York's Allen AME Church, the Rev. Floyd Flake.
The gun violence must stop.
A pleasant surprise.