"Stay The Course"...And Then What?
-previews "a major addess" by the President
» Michael O'Hanlon (Brookings)
Call in the Army!
-says posse comitatus or no, the federal government must protect Americans in disasters
» James Pinkerton columnist archive (Newsday)
» James Pinkerton (the New America Foundation)
30 Issues: School Construction in New Jersey
-on the controversy surrounding the School Constructions Corporation
» The Star-Ledger
» 30 Issues in 30 Days
Geography Bee
While there are certainly better things to do with one's time, we thought it so conspicuous that the President insisted on listing geographic locations in his speech this morning (e.g. "...Mombasa, and Casablanca, and Riyadh, and Jakarta, and Istanbul, and Madrid, and..." you get the idea) that we decided to ...
More Real Estate News
Leafing through the Lowdown during the President's speech...Lloyd Grove reports on the ruckus emanating from 740 Park Avenue (AKA "The World's Richest Apartment Building"). The very short version: Georgette Mosbacher has upset her neighbors by agreeing to host a book party at her home in 740.
"I ...
The Eyesore of 57th Street
A number of listeners wrote in yesterday to correct a caller who favors Ferrer's proposed vacant property tax because of a "property at 9th ave and 57th St. that's been empty since the middle seventies. The building's boarded up and has never been developed."
Not empty, just under-inhabited writes CM: ...
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