New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vowed yesterday to slash income taxes to revive the state’s economy and make it more competitive with its neighbors. “We’ve got to do that,” the
Hundreds of transit cameras went live Monday inside the New York City Police Department’s Lower Manhattan Security Coordination Center. It’s part of a new security initiative made possible by a
One of the worlds most despised leaders was quite possibly the safest man in New York City on Monday night. The city is going to great lengths to protect Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, reports CBS 2?s Rob Morrison. The fact that this much security is out in plain sight pales in comparison to the hidden […]
A new poll by Rasmussen finds a 16-point lead for Democrat Andrew Cuomo in his gubernatorial race against Carl Paladino, the Buffalo real-estate developer who won the Republican nomination last week. The poll, which surveyed likely voters, found 54% supporting Cuomo to Paladinos 38%. The polls margin of error is 4.5 percentage points. As WSJs […]
Rabbi Yehuda Levin Injected himself into the Carl Paladino-Andrew Cuomo gubernatorial race this morning and promptly raised an old political bugaboo that has long hounded both Andrew and his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo. The NY Daily News reports: Its the Vote For Cuomo, Not the Homo smear allegedly used during the 1977 mayoral runoff […]
The Brooklyn Paper reports: Assemblyman Vito Lopez, the most powerful politician in Brooklyn, has had his share of battles with political opponents throughout his career, but he is facing an even more formidable foe cancer. A source confirmed that Lopez has been telling political allies this week that he believes his esophagal cancer has […]
The UN may be welcoming Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but that doesn’t mean that New York lawmakers are happy about it. A group of elected officials, led by Gov. Paterson,
New Yorks aging natural-gas pipelines are ready to blow, experts warn. Huge swaths of infrastructure maintained by Con Ed, National Grid and a handful of interstate distributors are often older than the section of 62-year-old pipe that exploded Sept. 9 in suburban San Francisco, killing four. We are looking at catastrophic failure that might be […]
12:30PM EST: A large fire is burning under Metro Norths 138th Street Lift Bridge in East Harlem. The bridges four tracks carry Metro-North trains in and out of Manhattan. There is currently no Metro-North service at the moment in and out of Grand Central Terminal. All Metro-North train traffic passes over the bridge on the […]
Ninety percent of Americans are concerned about the economy, according to a new CNBC poll, and two-thirds of those surveryed think neither Democrats nor Republicans have a clear vision for
Ally Financial Inc.s GMAC Mortgage unit told brokers and agents to halt foreclosures on homeowners in 23 states including Florida, Connecticut and New York. GMAC Mortgage may need to take corrective action in connection with some foreclosures in the affected states, according to a two-page memo dated Sept. 17 and obtained by Bloomberg News. Ally […]
According to Israel’s Army Radio there is a new initiative to secure the release of Jonathan Pollard in return to the extension of the settlement freeze. Political source at the
Maybe this is why Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesnt take a salary. The billionaire mayor has only two pairs of work shoes, which he has been wearing for 10 years, the New York Post reported Monday. “The mayor owns only two pairs of work shoes,” Bloomberg spokesman, Stu Loeser, told the Post. “One day he’ll wear […]
Chacham Hagon Ovadia Yosef Shlita, turned 90 on Sunday, continuing his busy schedule of meeting people, delivering Shiurim, and writing Seforim. Rav Ovadia Yosef was born in Baghdad on September
Over the past few months, the Chevra Kadisha in Eretz Yisroel has invested significant resources in upgrading its technological services, in hopes of helping those looking for a loved-one’s final
World leaders are descending on the city this week for the United Nations General Assembly, bringing major traffic tie-ups and gridlock on the east side of Manhattan. An increased police presence is already visible in the area. All this week, First Avenue will be closed from 42nd Street to 48th Street, though the tunnel underpass […]
The White House is pushing back hard against a New York Times report that the president’s political team is considering a national ad campaign that would cast the GOP as taken over by tea party extremists. The story is 100 percent inaccurate, a White House official told POLITICO. Times Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet counters […]
The United States under President George W. Bush was prepared to take in 100,000 Palestinian refugees as part of a Middle East peace deal, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
The longtime White House correspondent who resigned from Hearst newspapers in June in the wake of comments she made about Israel will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Council
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