A JOB FOR SUPER-MIKE

June 27, 2008 - WITH Joe Bruno out as Senate majority leader, it's time for Mayor Bloomberg to take on Albany's last-man-standing: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Nothing would boost Hizzoner's legacy as much as a successful bid to oust the speaker, a chief cause of Albany's broken government (and a major headache for the city, too). Let's face it: If New York is to see any real reform -...

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UNIONS WIN, YOU LOSE

LABOR BOSSES RULE LAWMAKERS - AND CHOKE NY

June 13, 2008 - KEY triumphs by New York union bosses this spring offer textbook lessons for how to keep Labor strong. Which is great news for the bosses and their members - but bad for everyone else. Consider...more >
BAM'S LAND OF LOSERS

HIS PATHETIC ADVICE TO GRADS

May 30, 2008 - FOR all his soaring, hopeful rhetoric, Barack Obama chose an odd message this week to send Wesleyan's graduating seniors. Face it, kids - he basically said - Americans are losers. Pathetic...more >
A TEST FOR ABBAS

BUSH LEGACY IN THE CROSSHAIRS

May 16, 2008 - ANYONE with high hopes for the Middle East Road map as President Bush ar rived in Israel Wednesday might reasonably be considered insane - that is, if insanity is, as some say, repeating the same...more >
WHO NEEDS VIGILANCE?

THE NY TIMES & 'INTIFADA HIGH'

May 2, 2008 - SOMEONE should tell The New York Times what happened on 9/11 - it ap parently has no clue. If it did, it never would've run that 4,500-word, front-page tearjerker Monday on Brooklyn's Khalil...more >
A JOB FOR MIKE

LOTS LEFT TO DO AS MAYOR

April 18, 2008 - EVERYONE is wondering about Michael Bloomberg's plans after leaving office. He won't run for prez, but what about veep? Gov? Or Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, should she (somehow) become...more >
POWER POLITICS

QUIETLY KILLING NY'S JUICE

March 28, 2008 - WHEN a state panel nixed a 5-year-old plan for a Brooklyn power plant last week, it drew scant notice. Who'd complain, after all - so long as the lights are lit? But the news should have set off...more >
PLEASE DON'T 'GET ALONG'

March 14, 2008 - Eliot Spitzer is gone - but Albany's corruption and cynicism remain. David Paterson must fight it. No, most state officials don't patronize prostitution rings (as far as we know, anyway)...more >
LETTING SILVER SLIDE

BRUNO'S ONLY HALF THE PROBLEM

March 7, 2008 - POLITICS, or prosecutors, may well force GOP Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno into sudden retirement - arguably leaving Gov. Spitzer halfway toward fulfilling his vow to "fix Albany." Too...more >