Cuomo for VP?
This morning, City & State reported on renewed talk of Governor Andrew Cuomo as a VP replacement for Vice President Joe Biden. It’s all nonsense and just proof that the Albany political establishment is frustrated by...
Read Moreby Michael | Dec 8, 2011 | Elections, Politics, Presidential Politics | 1 |
This morning, City & State reported on renewed talk of Governor Andrew Cuomo as a VP replacement for Vice President Joe Biden. It’s all nonsense and just proof that the Albany political establishment is frustrated by...
Read Moreby Michael | Aug 26, 2011 | Food, Public Policy | 3 |
Late last week, the USDA informed Mayor Bloomberg that the Department has rejected the city’s proposal to bar New York City’s food stamp recipients from buying soda and other sugary drinks with their benefits. Tom Vilsack,...
Read Moreby Michael | Dec 19, 2010 | Uncategorized | 1 |
In an article published in ProPublica, New York’s former DEC commissioner, Pete Grannis, said the executive order was “more of a political cover than a substantive effect on the ongoing work of the department.”...
Read Moreby Michael | Dec 4, 2010 | Government, Public Policy | 5 |
The recent Albany Times-Union editorial, “Up to you on drilling, Governor,” got it all wrong regarding the Assembly’s passage of the hydrofrcking moratorium. This bill is overbroad and will unnecessarily halt...
Read Moreby Michael | Nov 26, 2010 | Government, Public Policy | 2 |
Today’s NY Post story about bootleg cigarette sales at bodegas reaffirmed my opposition to increased tobacco taxes. First, raising the cigarette excise tax by another $1 per pack only rewards bootleggers, some of whom will use...
Read Moreby Michael | Oct 28, 2010 | Government, Public Policy | 7 |
[polldaddy poll=3997565] Earlier this year, the New York Times reported on the “Bronx Paradox” which describes the odd, simultaneous occurrence of both hunger and obesity afflicting low-income residents of the South Bronx. But...
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