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Bloomberg Cuts 100 Broadcast Jobs, First Layoffs For Company

New York TimesBloomberg L.P., the financial news and data firm, said on Wednesday that it had cut 100 jobs, the first layoffs since it was founded by Michael R. Bloomberg 28 years ago. | Michael Barbaro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Bloomberg L.P., the financial news and data firm, said on Wednesday that it had cut 100 jobs, the first layoffs since it was founded by Michael R. Blo...

Bloomberg Speech Interrupted By Protesters

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

About 100 protesters stormed a Manhattan hotel ballroom and interrupted a speech by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, shouting "this is what democracy looks li...

Bloomberg To Cut 23,000 Jobs In NYC

New York Daily News | KATHLEEN LUCADAMO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Mayor Bloomberg's bare-bones budget for next year slashes the city work force by 23,000 but won't hit homeowners with higher taxes, officials revealed...

Your TARP Money is Being Used to Prop Up the Price of Oil

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Raymond J. Learsy

No, it's not about your local gas station not getting a loan from its bank to keep it in business. It is far more insidious. It's about hundreds of millions of TARP dollars being spent on oil speculation.

New York's Department of Veterans' Affairs: Where's the Outrage?

Luis Montalvan and Aaron Glantz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Luis Montalvan and Aaron Glantz

Internal audits at the VA regional headquarters has revealed over half of all disability claims processed through the New York office had been illegally tampered with.

Obama May Not Be Middle East's Messiah

Sunil Adam | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Sunil Adam

President-elect Barack Obama's conspicuous silence on the latest conflagration in the Middle East is perhaps not only tactical but also prudent. There...

Next Week's OPEC Meeting "Looney Tunes" and the Contango "High Step"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Raymond J. Learsy

The ever obliging oil industry commentators and talking heads are falling all over themselves complimenting the Saudis for their seriousness in abiding by its OPEC allocation.

Green Edge 10: Can Government Create Green Jobs?

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
John Tepper Marlin

I propose that the Mayor of New York should spend the money and time to convene meetings of green thinkers and entrepreneurs to launch new businesses.

Vote Bloomberg for the Third Time

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Michelle Haimoff

Even though Mike Bloomberg could be anywhere in the world, he wants to keep solving the problems of New York. I say let him. He's doing us a favor and we should thank him for it.

Bloomberg 1 -- Democracy 0

Mark Green | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Mark Green

It's just wrong that Mike Bloomberg says it was too late to put a voter referendum on the ballot this November when it was the Mayor himself who stalled for nine months putting it on this November ballot.

David Gergen Is Wrong About Early Voting Being Light

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Stephen C. Rose

On a late show on CNN Thursday, David Gergen casually suggests that early voting has been light and hearts sink. Is he right?

Mike Bloomberg Denies New Yorkers an Honest Election

Alec Baldwin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Alec Baldwin

New York is not Toledo. The bench is deep. Eight million people living in this city and only one can serve as mayor? New Yorkers need to get to know some of the other good people working in the five boroughs.

Friday Talking Points [52] -- What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Chris Weigant

I started blogging over two years ago. That is to say, right about the time the 2008 presidential campaign began. OK, that's a bit of an exaggeration...

Ohio GOP Still Chasing Undecideds; Dems Making Sure Supporters Pull The Lever

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Diane Tucker

The GOP must believe it can make inroads into Youngstown's urban community, because this month the second-biggest buy on the city's hip-hop air waves was made by the Mahoning County Republican Party.

All's Well In Posh Connecticut Where Bloomberg Stumps For Rep Shays

Mary Ann West | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Mary Ann West

Westport, Conn. -- "I will say it's nice to know that all of his constituents live well, have great views, good food. I had a beer inside, it was very...

Predicting the Next US President(s)

Liz Rose | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Liz Rose

There's a vague sort of cosmological indication that the winner of the next election will be less predictable than one thinks, so don't rely too heavily on what the polls are showing today.

Financial Crisis Bailout Riddled With Conflicts of Interest

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Raymond J. Learsy

The people with the same rapacious mindset that got us to this dangerous place at huge profit to themselves are now being asked by Paulson to serve themselves up to another helping.

McCain Lies To Press About Crowd Sizes; Are November Vote Counts Next?

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
M.S. Bellows, Jr.

According to the Bloomberg report, a Secret Service spokesman said the McCain campaign was once again cooking the books: "We didn't provide any numbers to the campaign."

Who Pays For Bogus UAL Bankruptcy Post?

Robert Reed | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Robert Reed

Who's going to feel the wrath of UAL shareholder lawsuits? There's Tribune Co., which has nearly $13 billion in debt, and then there's Google, one of the richest and most profitable companies on the globe.

Let's Get the Story Behind Faulty UAL Post

Robert Reed | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Robert Reed

Well, you've got to hand it to the Tribune Co. It made people feel sorry for United Airlines, one of those of businesses the public just loves to hate.

In the Path of Gustav the Huffington Post Moves the Price of Oil

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Raymond J. Learsy

Cause and effect? You decide. Consider the time frame.

McCain Will Crash and Burn Again with Palin

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Diane Francis

Palin's peanut-sized political past disqualifies her a job as large, and serious, as Vice President. Is McCain simply swapping pantsuits because he believes women are dispensable and merely arm pieces?

Bloomberg Accidentally Publishes Steve Jobs Obituary

Gawker | Ryan Tate | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

The Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today -- and inadvertently published it in the process. Some invest...

Exporting NYC's Education "Miracle": Buyer Beware!

Dan Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dan Brown

Since his election in 2001, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made narrowing the white-minority achievement gap in New York City his signature issue. After ...

Bloomberg L.P. Consolidates To Play Up Growing Media Assets

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Bloomberg L.P., the financial news and data company founded by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, announced a revamping on Wednesday intended to play up its ...