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Ben Smith on Blame and the Snowstorm
In case you missed it, Politico’s Ben Smith had a post up last week with some interesting observations about Mayor Mike’s staffing changes and how they may have impacted city government’s effectiveness (or lack thereof) in dealing with the post-snowstorm cleanup last week. Key quote:
Having covered Bloomberg’s City Hall for a few years, and still talking pretty regularly to people who know it better, the real issue seems to be the structure of the administration. Bloomberg had, until
Deputy Mayor Suggests Plan To Make NYC Government Leaner
Just four months after being appointed by Mayor Bloomberg to head the Office of Operations, Stephen Goldsmith has hit the ground running while gaining the confidence of good government groups and administration critics on the way. The recent praise has come after two recent reports analyzing cost efficiencies in mayoral agencies with a separate report exclusively on the Department of Education. Highlights included a drastically different picture than the top down, highly-organized bureaucracy normally professed by City Hall… Read More
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Mr. Bloomberg Goes To Washington
In a stunning display of amazement, Mayor Bloomberg is headed to Capitol Hill to rip Congress a new one for endangering New York City and the rest of America by creating a “Terror Gap” which allows suspected terrorists on the FBI watch list to purchase firearms, explosives, etc.
Hot on the heels of a thwarted terrorist attempt in NYC, you probably thought that it took a diabolical genius just to get the equipment necessary. You thought wrong.
Current federal law
Mayor Bloomberg: Arizona Is Hurting America
Today Mayor Bloomberg published an Op-Ed in the Daily News slamming the Arizona law as potentially unconstitutional and undeniably against the culture that makes America great. Enjoy.
What’s at stake here is nothing less than America’s international reputation as the most open and attractive marketplace in the world, and our standing as the world’s strongest economic superpower. Immigrants have always been at the heart of American culture and capitalism, and casting suspicious eyes on legal immigrants will only harm both.
Bloomberg: Four Day A Week Mayor
The Times ran a story yesterday about Bloomberg’s lavish twice monthly visits to Bermuda. Although Bloomberg is a giant philanthropist, there does to be something impolitic about going to one’s $10 million waterfront estate “about twice a month” when 22 percent of New Yorkers are classified as poor and 10 percent are unemployed. Even more important than whether the Mayor can empathize with so many poor and unemployed in the city… Read More
