The following letter to the editor by Erie County Legislator Ed Rath will appear in the Amherst Bee tomorrow:
Dear Editor:
Erie County has adopted its 2010 budget. I am happy to report that the budget keeps tax rates steady for next year. During these difficult economic times, it does not [...]
Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Councilmember James Vacca and transportation advocates are calling for their own solutions to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s fiscal woes.
The authority’s board is scheduled to meet tomorrow to vote on a new budget that will eliminate two subway lines and 21 bus routes. [...]
Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Councilmember James Vacca and transportation advocates are calling for their own solutions to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s fiscal woes.
The authority’s board is scheduled to meet tomorrow to vote on a new budget that will eliminate two subway lines and 21 bus routes. [...]
The question of running buses or building rail has preoccupied transit planners in many an American town, with Maryland's Montgomery County being the latest locality to choose between trains and bus rapid transit (BRT), which tends to be the less expensive option.
[...] For Governor David Paterson, the Q Poll has one piece of good news. His favorable rating is up to 38 percent - the highest it has [...]
Good morning, everyone. Here’s the news…
Gov. David Paterson’s favorability and job approval ratings are inching up, according to the latest Siena poll. (TU/ GNS)
But New Yorkers are siding with the legislature over the DRP. (DP)
New York’s juvenile detention system fails youths, according to a report issued [...]
The sorry state of affairs in which a “Disneyfied” Times Square lacks an actual Disney Store will soon be remedied.
Disney has a lease out for the retail space at 1540 Broadway, according to sources familiar with the transaction.
(Translation into non–real-estatese: Disney is this [...]
We had a couple of guys playing with themselves on the subway this summer, and figured we'd see less of them when the weather turned cold. But it was a mild fall, and now NYPD tells us that on Nov...
Continue reading "Have You Seen... the'" [...]
Publisher Nick Burry enjoying the libations, second to right. Photos by Emily Anne Epstein for L Magazine
It's not often you go to a bar with a 120-minute happy hour, but that's exactly what we got at The L Magazine's holiday party Friday at Home [...]
We're only a couple of weeks away from 2010, and that means it's time for every publication still in existence to start doing a "Best Of The Decade" list like its VH1's entire programming line-up.
Lists are great because they are fun, subjective, and get people talking.' [...]
National Public Radio is increasing its focus on diversity with the addition of a new senior manager role.
Keith Woods, the dean of faculty at the Poynter Institute, has been named as the first vice president in charge of Diversity in News and Operations [...]
Tens of thousands of people from nearly every nation on earth have descended on Copenhagen this month for the UN climate summit. As the delegates try to piece together a framework for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, they're also absorbing lessons from one of the world's leading cities in sustainable' [...]
Last year, Queens resident Augusto Noguera was appointed to an administrative role in Paraguay's consulate in NY, apparently "as payback for supporting [its President Fernando] Lugo and other candidates in last year’s elections," according to the NY Times. Only, it turned out that Noguera [...]
The New York Post didn't need to look much further than its own front pages to find its latest advice columnist.
Just over a week after sounding off on the the Tiger Woods sex scandal -- and telling all the mistresses coming out of the' [...]
President Obama's just-get-me-a-bill-dammit approach to health care reform is rooted in the calculation that a signing ceremony would be a major political winner for the White House in the 2010 elections.
In his latest "60 Minutes" sit-down on Sunday night, the president offered a preview of the triumphant spin [...]
