The mayor should have apologized big time to the family of the late George Wong, a New York City police officer whose corpse was carted off by the city when the Medical Examiner's office made a mistake.

Cathie Black is out. Thank the Lord. Rather than beating up on the newly departed schools chancellor, let's be grateful that this train wreck ended before it did more damage.

Subsidized child care has few advocates in the tangled world of New York City politics. Cut senior citizen centers or libraries or - God forbid - a firehouse, and the City Council will hear shrieks from their district. Child care, not so much.

Donald Trump has now totally, undeniably injected race into presidential contest with his attack on Barack Obama's educational credentials.