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Bill Will Not Seek Hill’s Seat

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Billary, Hillary, New York, Senate

Not that this was ever really a realistic scenario, given that he’d have to give up his jet setting lifestyle to do a thankless job…but this was speculation we just couldn’t pass up.
From CNN:
Responding to such speculation, Clinton spokesman Matt McKenna tells CNN that “it’s completely false. President Clinton is excited to expand the work [...]

December 2nd, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Behold The New York Mets Citi/Taxpayer Field!

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Bad Decisions, Economy, Good Decisions, Money, New York, Sports

The ailing Citigroup is being fairly targeted for their spendthrift ways.
From NY Times:
In 2006, Citigroup signed a 20-year, $400 million contract to name the Metsâ€™ new stadium in Queens Citi Field. As recently as last week, the troubled financial-services conglomerate said it had no intention of backing out of the deal for the new stadium [...]

November 27th, 2008 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

Obama Wins In Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Rhode Island and New York

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island, Wisconsin

79 electoral votes here for the Illinois senator.
Moving on…

November 4th, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Bloomberg Wants To Host 1st Town Hall

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Bloomberg, Debates, Democrats, McCain, New York, New York City, Republicans

(UPDATE: Both campaigns rejected the offer because they don’t want to limit it to just one network. Hmmm…)
Now this is a pretty brilliant move…
The guy who has some of the deepest pockets in the world, and could be a VP for either candidate, wants to use that leverage.
From Politico:
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and [...]

June 8th, 2008 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

New York’s Gay Marriage Provision To Set Off Firestorm?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Law, New York, Religion, Sexuality

Bravo to Governor Patterson for saying New York should recognize gay marriages from other states, but this has obviously made A LOT of social conservatives angry and they’re not going down without a fight.
First, Patterson’s reasoning…
Paterson issued a memo earlier this month saying that gay New Yorkers who marry where it is legal will have [...]

May 30th, 2008 | Permalink| 15 Comments »

Video: Man Gets Stuck In Elevator For 41 Hours

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Comedy, Kitchen Sink, New York, New York City, Torture, Video

Watch this time lapsed video. It’s hypnotic.

More from the New Yorker:
White has the security-camera videotape of his time in the McGraw-Hill elevator. He has watched it twice-it was recorded at forty times regular speed, which makes him look like a bug in a box. The most striking thing to him about the tape is that [...]

April 21st, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Eliot Spitzer Resigns

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in New York

No surprise. There was really no other option.
In case you missed the wall-to-wall coverage on every news channel, here’s the story. Even though I didn’t always agree with Spitzer, I’m sorry to see this. He inspired a lot of people. His fall will just add to the general cynicism many have towards politics and politicians. [...]

March 12th, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Spitzer Deserves What He Gets

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in In The News, Law, New York

In reading blog coverage and comments about the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, Iâ€™ve gotten the sense that there are a lot of people who think this is no big deal. The underlying assumption is the either prostitution is not worth enforcing or that this particular case should be a private matter for the Spitzer family. [...]

March 11th, 2008 | Permalink| 6 Comments »

Eliot Spitzer Caught in Prostitution Sting

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in New York

He was caught as part of a federal investigation and has already apologized â€“ wife by his side. Many are calling on him to resign from his position as governor of New York.
Prostitution is a good deal worse than having an affair, and Spitzer wasnâ€™t just picking up women on the street. He was a [...]

March 10th, 2008 | Permalink| 16 Comments »

Clinton Takes New Jersey, New York

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Hillary, New Jersey, New York

More good news for the Clinton camp, but we’ll see how the delegate count shakes out.
Bottom line, Clinton has won big in the Northeast.

February 5th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Polls Show Obama Closing On Hillary

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, California, Connecticut, Democrats, Hillary, Massachusetts, New York

First the national poll from Gallup, which shows that last week Clinton was up by 16 points. Now the gap is 6 points.
Clinton 42% (-2)
Obama 36% (+3)
Edwards 12% (-2)
Then Kennedy’s endorsement has helped Obama in Massachusetts…
A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the Massachusetts Democratic Presidential Primary finds Hillary Clinton attracting 43% of the vote while [...]

January 30th, 2008 | Permalink| 8 Comments »