Rockefeller

Advice for the Unknown Lottery Winner

Don McNay | Posted 12.28.2009 | Business


Don McNay

After having overcome trillion-to-one odds, the idea of running through the money would seem silly to most winners. However, studies shows that 90% of people blow all their money within five years of winning the jackpot.

Jay Rockefeller Tears Into Howard Dean: 'Nonsense ... Irresponsible' (VIDEO)

Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics


Via Greg Sargent, Sen. Jay Rockefeller launched into Howard Dean on MSNBC Wednesday afternoon. Andrea Mitchell asked about Dean's belief that the Se...

Great Houses of New York: The River Club, the Best Address, Part III

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 10.31.2009 | New York


Michael Henry Adams

Except for having no golf course, the River Club at 447 East 52nd Street is as close to a country club as one could find in the middle of New York City.

Sam Stein

Message To Leadership: Rockefeller Re-States His Opposition To Triggers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics


One of the Senate's foremost champions of the public insurance option re-asserted on Friday his opposition to a compromise approach that would establi...

Rockefeller Drug Law Reforms Go Into Effect

Eric T. Schneiderman | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York


Eric T. Schneiderman

For all the (fair) criticism of Albany's dysfunction, our state government did get something right this year. The drug law reforms go into effect today.

The Rise And Fall Of New York: A Tragedy In 3 Acts

Nelson Montana | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York


Nelson Montana

I still love this town. But it saddens me to see how far it's fallen. Can the rest of the country be far behind?

James McDonald Dead: Rockefeller & Co. CEO Found Dead Of Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound

AP | MARK PRATT | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business


BOSTON - James S. McDonald, president and chief executive of investment management firm Rockefeller & Co., has died of an apparently self-inflicted gu...

Democratic Senators Resisting Concessions To GOP

New York Times | ROBERT PEAR and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics


President Obama tried Tuesday to sell his health care plan to older Americans, as members of Congress said they were deluged with calls from constitue...

New York: The Epic Origins

Allison Rockefeller | Posted 07.27.2009 | New York


Allison Rockefeller

In New York it's always about us, what happened right here, clearly the center of the universe even 400 years ago!

Republican Party Needs Leadership Laxative

Stephen H. Baum | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics


Stephen H. Baum

It looks like the system needs a laxative to flush out the excesses and the power of groups who drove us where we are -- on the edge of a cliff.

God's Hybrid

Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 11.17.2008 | Living


Dr. Jeffrey McCombs

Somewhere along the primordial way, a bunch of micro-organisms became enclosed by, fewer in number, but larger "tissue" cells and the evolutionary rac...

Friday Talking Points [51] -- Some Positivity

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

While we're all waiting for someone to leak the Palin Troopergate Report (which is reminiscent of waiting for "Fitzmas" during the whole Scooter Libby...

WSJ Asks: Do The Rockefellers Still Matter?

Wall Street Journal | Robert Frank | Posted 06.04.2008 | Business


For most of the 20th century, the name Rockefeller was synonymous with American wealth and power. The family name -- and, it was assumed, the family ...