WHAT'S A MAYOR TO DO?
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Mayor Mike: You Wonder
How to Stay in Public Life
We Have Some Suggestions
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April 25, 2008-
The most important recurring event in New York City government is the election of a mayor, one year after the President is chosen and one year before the governor is elected...
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MORE MUNICIPAL MISCONDUCT
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News Looks at Expenses,
Detects Some on Council
Living High off the Hog
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April 27, 2008-
Every week seems to bring a fresh account of misconduct or abuse by public officials. Monday was a holiday, so we start Tuesday. This morning, the Daily News looks over the expense accounts of City Council members, which they spend out of the $277,336 they receive each year for staffing and other costs. This sum is in addition to their $112,500 salaries, and an average $10,000 lulu (payment in lieu of expenses for four-fifths of the Council who head committees or subcommittees).
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WHY DID THEY HANG THEMSELVES?
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Two State Police Suicides
During Official Inquiries
Cause Grief and Anxiety
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April 23, 2008-
We have three comments late Friday of what was, until today, an unseasonably cool and rainy week. We hope the weekend is/was more enjoyable. 1. Global warming may or may not have produced a lot of odd weather conditions and cataclysmic shocks experienced in the last few years. The tsunami in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004 was the result of an undersea earthquake. Since then, the planet appears to have had more than its share of cyclones, floods and quakes, as well as tornadoes in the midwest...
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THE YOUNGEST BROTHER
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Reflecting on Senator Kennedy
And the Response to his Illness
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April 21, 2008-
Today the political world is shaken by the news of Senator Ted Kennedy's grave illness. The Kennedys have been national figures, in triumph and often in tragedy, for over seventy years, since its patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy, then a stock market and commodities speculator and real estate investor, was appointed chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission by President Roosevelt in 1934, head of the Maritime Commission in 1935, and Ambassador to the Court of St. James in 1938. He is the only man to have had three sons elected to the United States Senate... |
