Charter Revision Commission meets, but “it is not a hearing and testimony will not be taken from the public.”
Meeks said it’s not his job to oversee the charity he helped found and fund.
Ravitch doubts an on-time budget.
Ditto for Paterson.
Paterson wants money from the feds.
Tom Frieden “sometimes wanders the agency’s hallways and drops in on scientists unannounced to ask about their work, both delighting and terrifying them.”
M.T.A.’s money solution: stop turnstile cheats.
Congress members, watch what you say. Literally.
Murphy is getting pressured on health care.
So far, he’s noncommittal.
McMahon remains a “no” on health care, despite Mike Fishman’s threat.
G.O.P. candidate Mike Grimm gets the Molinari Republican Club endorsement.
The W.S.J. doesn’t like Louise Slaughter’s role in the reconciliation process.
“Under Slaughter’s proposal, the Senate bill would be “deemed passed” if the House approves a rule for floor debate of a second bill. That second bill would contain changes that want House Democrats to make to the Senate bill.”
Andres Duque: “Hiram once got hit on at a gay bar in Queens.”
Transcript of Monserrate’s interview on Brian Lehrer.
Daily News: “Hell no to Hiram.”
Metro story on Monserrate: “What is it with politicians who just don’t know when to quit?”
“In a message posted to his Facebook page Saturday afternoon, Mr. Monserrate insinuated that Mr. Peralta had betrayed his wife.”
More than 5,000 residents are still without electricity on Staten Island.
The state of Nassau: “Much of the 55-minute speech was a backward-looking critique of problems Mangano…said he had inherited from his Democratic predecessor, Thomas Suozzi.”
Clyde Haberman on urban planner Andrew Haswell Green: “He even had an intriguing death. In 1903, one Cornelius Williams mistook him for a man who was having an affair with Williams’s lover. He shot Green five times. Considering that Green was 83 at the time, the jealous rage that ended his life, while deplorable, might be viewed by some as a compliment.”
And pictured above is Meeks and his words, captured by the New York Post.
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