“You don’t mind if I sip a Coke, do you?” asked Leslie Crocker Snyder, sitting behind her desk on the 23rd-floor Broadway office on Friday afternoon, the day news broke that Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau was finally going to retire.
She estimated about 60 phone calls had come in to her office since Read More
Now that reports are out saying 89-year-old Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau won’t seek re-election this year, there's a vacancy in one of the most coveted offices in New York.
Already running for the seat is Morgenthau’s 2005 challenger, Leslie Crocker Snyder, who said in 2005 that Morgenthau had been in Read More
This afternoon, Democratic consultant Michael Tobman is going to join me at my desk inside City Hall for a quick chat about local politics--and everyone can watch!
If my fancy new machine does what it's supposed to (and everyone is on time), at 3 p.m. the video above (which I shot during the Republican National Convention) Read More
Here’s a poetic way to look at Eliot Spitzer’s 21-day budget amendments, which he submitted today, adjusting to lower-than-expected state revenue.Michael Tobman, an education reform activist and political operative, told me by instant message: “The 21 day amendments reflect both an appreciation of our worsening economic forecast and the unavoidable truth that Read More
Here's an image being used on a billboard on the Manhattan-bound Prospect Expressway in Brooklyn (just before the ramp up to the Gowanus Expressway) which was sent over by Michael Tobman, one of the operatives pushing the governor's education plan. Between this and the dueling television ads about health care, it feels a little Read More
Here's a new radio ad that criticizes "special interests" for not supporting Eliot Spitzer's plan to lift the cap on charter schools. The group running the ad is Real Reform Now, a new collaboration between the New York Charter Schools Association and Dems for Education Reform. So far, there's a $100,000 ad buy for Read More
Backers of education tax credits are ratcheting up the pressure on Teachers Union president Randi Weingarten with the introduction of an unhappy Bishop. His Eminence Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn and Queens, who is big on immigrant and labor issues, apparently tried to set up a meeting with Randi last September, and hasn't heard back. Says Read More
