Posted by in New York on 03 10th, 2010 | No Comments
Ravitch’s State Fiscal Plan: Borrowing, GAAP, Review Board
Ravitch’s State Fiscal Plan: Borrowing, GAAP, Review Board
Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch has just unveiled his five year fiscal plan for NY State. Details had been leaked over the past few days, so it was no shock that the plan includes limited borrowing, adopting GAAP accounting, and creating a Financial Review Board to monitor and review the plan. The...
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Posted by in New York on 03 10th, 2010 | No Comments
State Police Chief Insists Resignation Not Admission of Guilt
State Police Chief Insists Resignation Not Admission of Guilt
Pedro Perez Pedro Perez, the acting superintendent of the NY State Police, resigned yesterday amid an investigation into his intervening role in the domestic violence case of former Paterson aide David Johnson. He took over as chief just a week ago after Police Superintendent Harry Corbitt , also implicated...
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Posted by in New York on 03 9th, 2010 | No Comments
Not Everyone Hates Gov. Paterson
Not Everyone Hates Gov. Paterson
“Good man!” and “We love you, Governor Paterson!” cried supporters at a Brooklyn town hall meeting on Monday. According to the Times , the disgraced governor, who’s being called the least popular in the city’s history, found praise there when he’s failed to...
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Posted by in New York on 03 6th, 2010 | No Comments
The State Capitol is a Self-Proclaimed Loony Bin
The State Capitol is a Self-Proclaimed Loony Bin
Photo composite of Paterson bobblehead in flames by Mihir Kelkar If you start cackling maniacally just reading the tabloid headlines from Albany (“Paterson’s aides tell of gov’s laziness, tantrums and deceits”; “‘Paranoid’ gov going ballistic”), just imagine...
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Posted by in New York on 03 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Mental Patients Living in Their Own Apts: Good Idea?
Mental Patients Living in Their Own Apts: Good Idea?
On Monday a federal judge ruled that the state must begin moving mentally ill New Yorkers out of “warehouse-like” institutions into more normal quarters, but concerned parties are already voicing their objections. “We are ground zero of this grand experiment that the judge has unleashed,”...
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Posted by in New York on 03 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Ray Kelly Rescues Damsel In Distress
Ray Kelly Rescues Damsel In Distress
In a story that makes you wonder if he already has a P.R. team at work on his rumored Mayoral campaign , the Daily News reports that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly rescued an injured woman yesterday. After Queens resident Devi Cusack twisted her ankle in a pothole on Broadway, Kelly and an aide got out...
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Posted by in New York on 03 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
PETA Pleas For Mermaid Show in New Aquarium
PETA Pleas For Mermaid Show in New Aquarium
PETA is chiming in on that proposed aquarium in Times Square; the group wrote a letter to developer Jerry Shefsky this week which included their own alternative plan for his venture. They say that fish “suffer horribly in captivity,” and a synchronized mermaid swimming show would be more...
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Posted by in New York on 03 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
Sources: Paterson Directed State Workers to Pressure Accuser
Sources: Paterson Directed State Workers to Pressure Accuser
Governor Paterson personally ordered two state employees to contact a woman seeking an order of protection against his top aide, sources tell the Times . It was previously disclosed that Paterson had a little telephone chat with the woman, Sherr-una Booker, the day before she failed to appear for her...
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Posted by in New York on 03 1st, 2010 | No Comments
Mentally Ill New Yorkers to Live in Their Own Apts
Mentally Ill New Yorkers to Live in Their Own Apts
For years mentally ill adults have been “warehoused” in overpopulated, for-profit group homes, but no longer. Today Judge Nick Garaufis called for the state to begin clearing out the facilities and allowing residents to go live in apartments of their own. The order applies to about 4,300...
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Posted by in Featured Articles, New York on 03 1st, 2010 | No Comments
Woman Who Scammed Immigrants Must Pay $3 Million
Woman Who Scammed Immigrants Must Pay $3 Million
A Jackson Heights woman has been ordered to pay $3 million in penalties and restitution for convincing illegal immigrants to give her money in exchange for helping them become citizens, then doing nothing on their behalf. The State Supreme Court ruling comes after Attorney General, and still undeclared...
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