class war
Dean Skelos Doesn’t Want to Raise the Minimum Wage |
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4:48 pm, 04/09/2012 |
And he posits some science to back up his theorems. [Read More] |
1:10 am, 03/30/2012 |
NY is about to get Un-Healthy | Friday Links |
Occupy Wall Street is BACK |
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12:17 am, 03/20/2012 |
Everyone pick up that poster-board and thick marker again and head back down to Zuccotti Park, cause Spring is here! Not freezing your extremities off makes it way easier to protest, and with election season ramping up, there is [Read More] |
Tier 6 Passes Assembly |
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1:47 pm, 03/15/2012 |
State lawmakers were up all night in Albany, and passed another sharp reduction in state worker pension benefits around 7:30 this morning. The vote is part of a Big Ugly: a cute Albany term for a mass of unrelated bills linked together by government leaders in a back room deal. [Read More] |
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1:47 pm, 03/14/2012 |
Redistricting News and Hipster News | Wednesday Links |
Rent Regulation Is Not Abused By Rich People As Much As People Say It Is |
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12:41 am, 03/08/2012 |
I gotta set the record straight before one asshole gets the US Supreme Court to tell us that we can’t have our rent regs. Everyone has heard some story in the news about super rich New Yorkers renting rent regulated [Read More] |
Indicted NYPD Detective Liked Eating at White Castle, Playing The Bubble Witch Saga |
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11:44 am, 02/22/2012 |
A lot’s been said about the indictment of New York City police detective Debra Eager. She stands accused of three counts of felony perjury for testimony in a 2007 pot bust that has been “starkly contradicted” by new video [Read More] |
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5:00 am, 01/09/2012 |
Way More Successful Former Assemblyman Makes Everyone Uncomfortable By Coming Back To Visit | Monday Links |
Editorial Cartoon |
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4:15 pm, 01/04/2012 |
“Committee to Save New York” Spent The Most On Lobbying Albany This Year |
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5:01 am, 12/15/2011 |
The business-backed group is only a few million dollars short of the all-time record for annual lobbying expenditures in New York state! And they’re still spending! Will they make it?! [Read More] |
NYC Likes Bloomberg, Likes #OWS More |
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3:42 pm, 12/14/2011 |
A new Quinnipiac College poll shows that while many New Yorkers think Mayor Michael Bloomberg has lost focus in his third term, a plurality still approve of his job performance, 49-42 percent. [Read More] |
New York City’s 1% Defined |
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3:58 pm, 12/13/2011 |
In response to a request from Staten Island Republican City Councilman James Oddo, New York City’s Independent Budget Office released a report defining, financially, the city’s 1%. [Read More] |
Some Dissent on Cuomo Tax Overhaul |
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3:56 pm, 12/09/2011 |
You would think that a bill that passed the New York State Senate 55-0 and had only eight (of 140) dissenting votes in the State Assembly must be all good. Especially if it can draw such a broad array [Read More] |
Alec Baldwin Writes Letter to Editor of Syracuse Post-Standard |
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5:45 pm, 12/02/2011 |
Alec Baldwin, 2013 New York City Mayoral candidate and funny on television tv star, wrote a letter to the editor of the Syracuse Post-Standard, and god damn it, they published it: To the Editor: In a Nov. [Read More] |
Black Friday Sales Pit 99% Against 99% |
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5:43 pm, 11/28/2011 |
This year, Black Friday finally broke through into Thursday, also known as Thanksgiving Day. That meant a flood of freshly bloated tourists and residents tee-heeing their way through the streets of New York City, or more commonly, anxious serfs gearing [Read More] |
Buffalo News, Other People Support Continuing Millionaires’ Tax |
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10:07 pm, 11/22/2011 |
Our professional colleagues at the Buffalo News editorialized yesterday in support of maintaining New York State’s tax surcharge on high earners. The surcharge increased tax rates 2% on yearly income over a threshold – $200,000 for individuals and $300,000 for [Read More] |
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6:41 am, 11/16/2011 |
Foreclosure at Liberty Square | Wednesday Links |
The North Country’s Nauseating Redistricting Debate |
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2:27 pm, 11/03/2011 |
THE NORTH COUNTRY currently holds 13,243 prison inmates from across New York state (but mostly from New York City). As in every other U.S. state—except Maine and Vermont—these prisoners can’t vote, run for office, or donate campaign mackerel while incarcerated. Yet it was only last year that the New York State legislature ended the bizarre practice of counting these prisoners as anything but residents of the town where tthey had originally lived, prior to their arrest. Unfortunately, this law only covers population figures applied to state senate and assembly member redistricting—leaving New York’s congressional districts open to a system of prison-based gerrymandering that’s as absurd as it is odious. [Read More] |
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12:30 pm, 10/31/2011 |
“Snow-loween” Storm Gives New Yorkers “Cold Chills,” Local News Anchor Refuses To Say | Monday Links |
The Phantom Company Out-Trading Goldman Sachs |
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4:49 pm, 10/12/2011 |
FOR YEARS Goldman Sachs has been the dominant player in algorithmic trading and, in particular, the high-frequency trading (HFT) market, boasting the largest and (arguably) most successful ‘automated trading’ operation on Wall Street. That changed this week, with the NYSE’s weekly program trading report unveiling a shadowy new top firm, Latour Trading, LLC—whose website is completely effing blank! [Read More] |
