In his commencement address at John Hopkins University, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg very directly demonizes those that would politicize stem cell research, global warming, Terry Schaivo, and evolution.
From the speech:
Today, we are seeing hundreds of years of scientific discovery being challenged by people who simply disregard facts that don’t happen to agree with [...]
A great article that I related to in the New York Times Magazine. Worth a read.
Depressed about the Democrats? Revolted by the Republicans? You’re not alone. Here in New York (with its Republican mayor and Democratic voters), a third way is being plotted. Follow the purple-brick road.
Why can’t we have a serious, innovative, truth-telling, pragmatic [...]
It is not yet clear what the resolution of the recent NYC transit strike will be–there is still no final contract, there are fissures in the support for the tentative contract within the Transport Workers Union, and the Metropolitan Transportation Agency is seemingly taking back one of the items its offered to the TWU as [...]
Update: We are still not in a good place here in NYC, but most of us are at work, the Mayor still has a temporary residence in Brooklyn, and the Governor is inexplicably in New Hampshire. At 7:15 a.m. TWU Local 100 leader Roger Toussaint announced “a series of strikes” that would begin with two […]
This a.m.’s Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC discussed the disagreement between Governor George Pataki and Mayor Mike Bloomberg over the development of lower Manhattan. Along with New York Post state editor Fred Dicker and WNYC reporter Andrea Bernstein, Lehrer rehearsed the dispute and then elicited some interesting insights into the dispute:
1. The current real […]
Mayor Mike Bloomberg is stepping boldly into the Lower Manhattan development mess. The New York Times reports, and the lead local story in all papers is, that the Mayor has named 4 new people, all influential members of his administration, to the Lower Manhattan Development Board (LMDB). Governor George Pataki has responded in kind by [...]
It was not quite the victory that some polls were predicting . . . or perhaps imagining. But 20% is pretty substantial and Bloomberg has what can be called a mandate for the next four years. So what policy initiatives are on Bloomy’s mind? He is looking to reinvigorate and take more charge of the […]