Jerks
Some Salaries of New York State’s Minimum Wage Hike Opponents |
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4:22 pm, 04/06/2012 |
Things were looking pretty good for a moment there, if you were a fan of livable wages for New York’s hardscrabble and adorable working families. [Read More] |
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] |
Albany County DA Let Pedophile Cult Borrow His Subpoena Power |
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10:50 pm, 03/07/2012 |
Sometimes, I really hate it when a news report says, “So-and-so’s allegations are raising eyebrows.” In my book, it’s just as bad as when a journalist begins an interview question with “Now, you know, some people are saying …” HOWEVER, the Albany Times Union’s 4-Part series on NXIVM—Keith Raniere’s self-empowerment “technology” company—will totally move your eyebrows upward. Your effing eyebrows will never be the same again. [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] |
12:49 pm, 02/17/2012 |
Gale Brewer Brews Buzz for Manhattan Beep Run | Friday Links |
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9:14 pm, 01/27/2012 |
Fracking Really Is Worse Than It Sounds | Friday Links |
Can I Recycle…50% of NYC Teachers? | Friday Links |
Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s baby Blue Ivy was born in a Lenox Hill Hospital room that makes us want to run into traffic. NY Times reporter Jim Dwyer believes New York State can still have affordable energy after a [Read More] |
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5:30 pm, 01/13/2012 |
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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 |
“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] |
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6:41 am, 11/16/2011 |
Foreclosure at Liberty Square | Wednesday 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] |
Is NYT’s Dealbook the Worst, or Simply Kinda Bad? |
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12:39 pm, 08/24/2011 |
SO ANYWAY, Andrew Ross Sorkin and Dealbook, his “financial news service” or whatever, continue their Faustian bargain with Wall Street this week—publishing milquetoast apologia in exchange for idk … A velveteen cushion of ad revenue from the very financial services they’re supposed to be objectively covering? A share of the Wall Street Journal’s readership as revenge for the journal creating a pointless Metro section exclusively to compete with the New York Times? A chance to get some c%l VC’s and i-Bankers to follow them on FaceB%k? “W%f!” u kno? [Read More] |
