Now it's Harold Ford Jr. Most New Yorkers probably don't even know he lives here, and suddenly he's being talked about as the Democrat who might seriously challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this fall.

Giuliani has spent the last eight years defining himself as the mayor who was on the ground when terror struck. And now he's on TV announcing that there were no domestic attacks under Bush.

It is crazy to have a city in which one of the major public safety services is virtually all white while the city is more than a quarter black.

Geoffrey Canada has developed a cradle-to-college educational formula that may enable thousands of minority children to break the cycle of poverty.

Just when it seemed impossible that our opinion of NY's legislature could get worse, it does. Now, it turns out these people can't even pick up free money in the form of $700 million in federal education funds.