NYC council speaker and, more importantly, mayoral candidate Christine Quinn just stole her classmate's recipe.
We're told that Quinn is the co -- if not prime -- sponsor of a "new" proposal to raise the age for sales of cigarettes and all forms of tobacco from 18 to 21....
(8) Comments | Posted July 19, 2012 | 5:05 PM
On Tuesday, July 24th, the complicit New York City Department of Health (DOH) will hold a hearing on Mayor Bloomberg's proposal to ban the serving of soda in cups and containers that are larger than 16 fluid ounces.
The sparkle of a "hearing" is as flat as...
(16) Comments | Posted March 5, 2012 | 2:47 PM
With New York State interests leading the way, the river of tears coming from anti-smoker proponents across the country over budget cuts to state-run Tobacco Control programs is about to flow from the top. The Associated Press alerts us that on March 8 the U.S. Surgeon General's office...
(6) Comments | Posted January 24, 2012 | 4:07 PM
(9) Comments | Posted January 12, 2012 | 11:34 AM
In the days following the murder of NYC Police Officer Peter Figoski, politicians from Mayor Michael Bloomberg to City Council Member Peter Vallone, Jr. stepped up to the microphone to point fingers of blame.
Officer Figoski was killed in the line of duty after responding to a...
(63) Comments | Posted January 3, 2012 | 3:27 PM
With a number of states seeming to heed the childhood cautionary words of their mothers, "If all your friends jumped off a bridge would you jump too?" they've so far resisted enacting smoking bans.
So it wasn't surprising to hear the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announce...
(9) Comments | Posted May 13, 2013 | 4:10 PM