Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | yesterday
New York, NY – Mayor Bloomberg’s aides – conditioned to expect windfall bonuses for helping achieve bigger margins of victory on Bloomberg’s last two reelection campaigns— worry their billionaire boss will only dole out lumps of coal for his meager third term win this go around. “It’s crossed our minds,” one Bloomberg campaign aide...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
The New York Times today wonders today whether Bloomberg will give hefty bonuses to his campaign staff for this year's election, even though his margin of victory was significantly lower than in the past. [ NYT ] Read more posts by Lindsay Robertson Filed Under: mayoral election , michael bloomberg
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Mayor Bloomberg's 6 percentage point loss to Controller William Thompson in Brooklyn revealed deep frustration with the mayor.
NYDailyNews (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Mayor Bloomberg's 6 percentage point loss to Controller William Thompson in Brooklyn revealed deep frustration with the mayor.
MetsBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
John from Metstradamus has a conversation with Xavier Nady on his couch. Meanwhile Sam over at Amazin’ Avenue does a fantastic job breaking down the Mets top 10 prospects. Meanwhile, Matthew Artus, in a post to his blog for the Star Ledger, hopes that Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s cheering for the Mets becomes more sincere when they’re back [...]
Gothamist (Free subscription) | yesterday
They say he runs the city like a business, so it's only fitting that after a poorer-than-expected performance in last week's election, Mayor Bloomberg's campaign workers are afraid they won't get big bonuses this year. In past elections, the billionaire former bond trader and media mogul has paid out-of-pocket bonuses of as much as $400,000 — "a highly unusual perk in municipal politics,...
Atlantic Yards Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Brooklyn Paper editorial about Mayor Mike Bloomberg's challenges headlined Mike — fix this already, lists several issues for Brooklyn, which Democratic challenger Bill Thompson won.It cites the Gowanus Canal and then Coney Island, "Bloomberg’s other main Brooklyn re-development plan," which is something of a fudge. While Atlantic Yards may not be Bloomberg's...
stone (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I'll be appearing live on Bloomberg in about an hour -- watch Bloomberg US here.
Queens Crap (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the NY Times : According to a standard set by one prominent New Yorker, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s re-election ought to be dismissed as inconsequential. That standard comes from Mr. Bloomberg himself. A year ago, he dispatched a couple of his legal whizzes to the City Council, which was holding hearings on his desire to scrap the voter-approved law on term limits so that...
stone (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Here's my segment on Bloomberg today. Interesting unemployment numbers that show a bifurcated market -- professionals and college-educated workers are the winners.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Indeed, spending records from the New York City Campaign Finance Board show that Bloomberg handed over more than two million dollars to Connections Media under the category of "Internet ads." Do the math, and it turns out that out of the whopping $145 that Bloomberg spent to pull each of his voters into the polls on Tuesday, just about $3.75 per voter went to buying Google ads...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A year ago, when Mayor Bloomberg was pleading his case to the City Council for why they should be so bold as to overturn the term-limits law passed twice by popular referendum, one of his counselors pointed out "that the 586,890 people who formed the majority in a 1996 referendum represented a trifling 17 percent of all registered voters in the city." Well, this Tuesday, Mayor Bloomberg...
The Boombox Music Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Filed under: Say What! Perpetual NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently introduced Jay-Z at the Yankees parade, "His song has become one of the newest anthems of the Yankees. Please welcome a great Yankee fan and a great New Yorker: Jay-Z ." Meanwhile, 50 Cent can't even get permission to film a video in the entire city. Jay keeps winning. [ RapUp ] First Trey Songz " Invented...
Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
New York City – A day after winning reelection, Mayor Bloomberg on Thursday seemed to step back from a campaign proposal to have free crosstown bus service. The “real issue” at the core of the no-fare proposal was speeding bus travel by reducing time spent boarding passengers, Bloomberg noted. That goal might be achieved through technology, Bloomberg [...]
Mike Hudack (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
xxxjustinralconxxx : In what has to be a record time, Bloomberg backs away from MTA campaign promise.
