At 5 a.m. on the morning of Monday, March 9, after many months of planning, NBC Universal at long last unveiled its 24-hour hyper-local newslike cable channel, called New York Nonstop (Channel 161 on Time Warner cable!). Some 12 hours later, Chuck Scarborough, who for decades has been the face of NB...

New York's Mayor Bloomberg has come out against taxing the rich because the rich people are the ones buying things in stores that give people jobs. See, Bloomie, that's the problem—you shouldn't have to be rich to buy things in stores. He's also said to check the stock market becau...

A consistent media meme since Election Day has been that Barack Obama was inheriting a recession that some believe began as far back as December 2007. Since then, despite various rescue plans from his Administration, and the passage of a $787 billion stimulus package, the stock market has continued ...

Would-be Mayor-for-Life Mike Bloomberg didn't have such a great week—I mean, aside from closing the deal of the townhouse next to him and turning his Upper East Side home into a mansion. (No Gracie Mansion, but an actual mansion.) King Mike, you remember, doesn't belong to any political party, sin...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food-relief policy makes little sense, and, by limiting eligibility, the city reduces the amount of money it receives from Washington....

A rocket carrying a NASA satellite designed to study global warming crashed into the ocean near Antarctica Tuesday shortly after being launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. How delicious that it landed near the continent whose expanding ice mass totally defies the myth climate alarmi...

What's missing from Mayor Mike Bloomberg's extensive campaign web site?Any mention of two new baseball stadiums and a long-stalled basketball arena, much less the city's allocation of $100 million and then another $105 million for the Atlantic Yards arena. Or that those expenditures might make the a...

After Lehman Brothers collapsed last fall, it quickly became clear to the Bloomberg administration that the spiraling economic crisis was going to hit New York especially hard. The financial sector had been the city’s economic engine, driving real wages and estate prices up citywide. So the Bloomb...

After Lehman Brothers collapsed last fall, it quickly became clear to the Bloomberg administration that the spiraling economic crisis was going to hit New York especially hard. The financial sector had been the city’s economic engine, driving real wages and estate prices up citywide. So the Bloomb...

Michael Bloomberg's campaign manager Bradley Tusk, emailed supporters this morning seeking volunteers, and pointing them to a fancy new campaign web site. The site urges supporters to volunteer because Bloomberg "is willing to make the hard choices – independent of politics and the specia...