Quinn Gains 20-point Lead in Dem Primary Race Poll
If you're City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the race for NYC Mayor can't get here fast enough. But historically, good news for front-runners can also be bad news.
If you're City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the race for NYC Mayor can't get here fast enough. But historically, good news for front-runners can also be bad news.
Posted 04.24.2012
The 2013 race to succeed three-term New York City Mayor Bloomberg has a frontrunner. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan) has a 20 p...
Steven Zevitas | Posted 04.11.2012
There are dozens of notable painting exhibitions on view in the United States this month. In an art world that is overly obsessed with the next hot th...
Dominic Carter | Posted 03.10.2012
Quinn does have an interesting background. I have interviewed her on NY1 News many times over the years, and have been impressed, literally watching her go from an outsider to one of the most powerful positions in the city.
HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 11.24.2011
One of the highlights of Thanksgiving is gathering around the TV to watch an oblong spheroid fly through the air. For millions of Americans, the ob...
Morgan Pehme | Posted 08.24.2011
New York City's campaign finance system, often lauded as the best in the nation, is under attack. The United States Supreme Court may be about to severely curtail the role of public financing in elections.
Henry J. Stern | Posted 08.20.2011
The teachable moment that emerges from this personal tragedy is that, with many people who we think of as leaders, emotion can overpower reason, and people can and do perform incredibly self-destructive acts.
Will Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011
Within hours of winning their elections, Bill De Blasio, our future public advocate, and John Liu, our comptroller-elect, each demonstrated their own distinct styles of ineptitude.
John Petro | Posted 05.25.2011
Improving bus service is the low-hanging fruit, the missing link in the city's transportation network. But there is still considerable opposition to Select Bus Service in New York City.
Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011
The lesson Obama should have learned from the Kennedys is that you need to know how and when to be tough and how to use your power well.
Len Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011
Intel's head of Dignitary Protection has so much time on his hands that he's moonlighting as security muscle for both baseball and Ray Kelly's new pals, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony.
nydailynews.com | Elizabeth Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011
Bill Thompson is a man in demand. After his closer-than-expected loss to Mayor Bloomberg, Thompson's name is being floated as a potential candidate...
Thomas W. Carroll | Posted 05.25.2011
Under Bloomberg and mayoral control (vs. how it was run under Bill Thompson under the old board of education), the public school system is viewed as a "portfolio" rather than as a centrally run monolith.
AP | SARA KUGLER | Posted 05.25.2011
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Will Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011
What could have swung this mayoral election into a Thompson win?
nydailynews.com | Elizabeth Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011
A key city union with a voter-turnout arm powerful enough to affect elections has endorsed Mayor Bloomberg - a year after it fought to block the term ...
NY Daily News | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama campaign veterans are finally admitting that President Obama's lackluster endorsement for New York Democratic mayoral candidate Bill Thompson wa...
AP | SARA KUGLER | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Billionaire Michael Bloomberg won a third term as New York mayor Tuesday in a closer-than-expected race against a Democratic challeng...
AP | SARA KUGLER | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has broken his own spending record from four years ago, dropping $85.2 million on his campaign ...
NY Daily News | Posted 05.25.2011
Mayor Bloomberg filed a lawsuit in state Supreme Court late this afternoon against his former opponent, Bill Thompson, over the comptroller's blocking...
Leonie Haimson | Posted 05.25.2011
In the mind of the Times, accountability for billions of dollars in tax funds for public education meant that one man alone, namely Bloomberg, should continue to have total control.
Jarrett Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011
Thirty million to repair the Brooklyn Bridge? The mayor spent more than that on television ads. Ten million for fixing Head Start centers? The mayor topped that on campaign consultants.
nytimes.com | DAVID W. CHEN | Posted 05.25.2011
Raising the specter of a return to higher crime and greater anxiety, former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani warned on Sunday that New York could become a mo...
Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011
Dear Mayor Bloomberg: For $10,00, cash or personal check, I will vote for you, pure and simple. For $50,000 plus expenses, I will have my car (a 2001 Toyota Echo) painted with your picture.
nytimes.com | CLYDE HABERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
According to a standard set by one prominent New Yorker, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's re-election ought to be dismissed as inconsequential. That stand...
Dominic Carter | Posted 04.25.2012