Beat poet Allen Ginsberg was expelled twice as from Columbia University in the 1940s, but came back in the 80s to teach. Now some modern-day beats say Columbia is trying to sanitize his legacy with a symposium on his poem Howl. Also: AG candidate Charlie King, the state budget, and should the IRS prepare your taxes for you?
202 Vetoes
Bob Hardt, executive producer and political director of NY 1, writes The Political ItCH blog
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Liz Benjamin, political reporter for the Albany Times-Union, writes the Capitol Confidential blog
- on the state budget
» The Political ItCH
» Capitol ...
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Liz Benjamin, political reporter for the Albany Times-Union, writes the Capitol Confidential blog
- on the state budget
» The Political ItCH
» Capitol ...
What About US (Weekly)?
Bonnie Fuller , editorial director of American Media, overseeing The National Enquirer and The Star, and former editor of Cosmopolitan, Glamour and Us Weekly, and author, They Joys of Much Too Much: Go for the Big Life--The Great Career, The Perfect Guy, and Everything Else You've Ever Wanted: (Fireside, 2006)
Fit for a King?
Charlie King, Democratic candidate for attorney general of New York and CEO of Praxis, a $9 million not-for-profit housing organization
- on his run for Attorney Genernal of New York State
» King for Attorney General 2006
- on his run for Attorney Genernal of New York State
» King for Attorney General 2006
Death and Taxes
Lauren Young, editor in personal business at Business Week
- discusses whether the IRS should handle our taxes
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Robert Guy Matthews, reporter for the Wall Street Journal
- on simplifying tax returns
» "Letting the IRS Do Your Taxes for You" by ...
- discusses whether the IRS should handle our taxes
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Robert Guy Matthews, reporter for the Wall Street Journal
- on simplifying tax returns
» "Letting the IRS Do Your Taxes for You" by ...
Howl About This!
Frank Walsh active member of the Underground Literary Alliance, also known as the Masked Perfesser
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Jason Shinder, National Arts director for YMCA of USA, and director of Arts Writing Program and the Sundance Institute and editor, The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later (Farrar, ...
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Jason Shinder, National Arts director for YMCA of USA, and director of Arts Writing Program and the Sundance Institute and editor, The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later (Farrar, ...
Required Reading: April 14, 2006
Thanks to Passover and Easter, these are s l o w news days! And BL blogger has been getting slow (we did have a guest host, the precocious, baritone Errol Cockfield) in getting up this motley assortment of leftovers, one-weres, and finally-rans, in which Bloomy grumbles about crime in ...