Avi Schick, the appointee of former New York governor Spitzer as president of the New York State Empire State Development Corporation, has stepped down. (New York Times, May 20, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/nyregion/20schick.html?ex=1211947200&en=964dc40db1d117db&ei=5070. Like the federal Housing and Urban Development secretary, his departure should be followed by his agency’s extinction. Both are illegitimate in my opinion as a Libertarian. (US Housing Agency […]
Fixing the Assessment Roll – Revised – May 1, 2008
Fixing the Assessment Roll: Revised The recent Ground Report article on fixing the assessment roll in Dobbs Ferry got a lot of attention and comment. Paul Feiner took up the offer to form a task force to look into the issue and report its finding and recommendations to the Town of Greenburgh. Some of […]
Upper West Side Restaurant Forecast: Orion’s Belt spotted on UpNext despite cloudy skies
Three New Restaurants on Columbus Ave in the 80s: A few months ago I badgered my friends to accept my invites to UpNext, which is a 3D map of Manhattan that shows nearly every listing on the island from copy centers to senior citizen lounges in stuyvestant town. Tonight I saw there were upgrades to […]
Armenia: April 24 – Genocide Memorial Day
– by Onnik Krikorian Yesterday marked the 93rd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocideand the deaths of approximately 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. Often described as the first Genocide of the 20th Century, the Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin invented the term in the 1940s with the Armenian and Jewish Holocausts in mind. Every year on 24 April, a date marking […]
Marie Antoinette, Meet Angelo Mozilo
– by Tula Connell This is a cross-post from the Firedoglake blog. Here’s an idea. Instead of retiring when we turn 65, let’s go to work scrubbing tables at the nearest fast-food outlet. Sound good? Not to most of us. But it’s a future that U.S. workers increasingly are facing. America’s workers aren’t just losing their homes in what […]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and His Dream for New York City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a dream: He wants to make vast, populous, sprawling New York City "the first environmentally sustainable city of the 21st century." He has 100 proposals on his list to make the city sustainable, in addition to the ones he has already enacted. Citizens may grumble, but there is no smoking in […]
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