When Senator Mark Pryor voted against a gun background check compromise, he was taking a measured political risk. Even as an anti-gun group announces a plan to spend $350,000 on ads criticizing Pryor ahead of a near-certain second vote, a detailed new poll shows why it may have made political sense.
For the past few months, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been running around New York City talking up its potential to become the best city in America for tech companies, and it seems to be working.
Mitt Romney's meeting with Michael Bloomberg yesterday at the East 78th Street offices of the Bloomberg Foundation was, presumably, a courtship.
Operatives for both presidential candidates are working hard to secure the only political endorsement that matters this election season: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's.
New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman's call Wednesday for a third party candidate to run for president yielded an unusually high-volume round of mustache-bashing from bloggers, but this is all part of a cycle that's beginning to feel pretty rote.
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Normally, we would applaud The New York Times for stripping away the veneer of public appearances and showing what's really going on, but when it comes to revealing the hand controlling Kermit the Frog, it's kind of a buzz kill.
Sure, it's an informal survey, but a New York Times reporter's finding that eight black college students he spoke to have been stopped by police a collective 92 times is still a disturbing reminder of how the NYPD wields its stop-and-frisk tactics too heavily against the city's minorities.
Though Olympia Snowe was the guest of honor at the Women's Campaign Fund event at Rockefeller Center, Sandra Fluke seemed to be the star.
Politico reported Wednesday that the Bloomberg View editorial criticizing Greg Smith's Goldman Sachs op-ed that Michael Bloomberg thought so highly of was written by Bloomberg columnist Michael Kinsley.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is very disappointed in the way the media has handled the story of Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith's very public (and very expensive) resignation, except for one outlet. Hint: It's the only news wire named for a billionaire.
One way the New York Police Department is trying to deflect blame for this whole Muslim spying story: Tattling on their colleagues in New Jersey.
Also: Sports Illustrated chooses model Kate Upton for the cover of the Swimsuit issue, a 2 a.m. all-staff email from the chairman of New Regency productions demands middle-of-the-night "proactivity" from his staff, and Steven Spielberg is fine with War Horse jokes.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg presses on with his crusade for gun law reform, an issue he hopes to bring to a wider audience than ever this Super Bowl Sunday.
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After the Komen Foundation kicked off a controversy by withdrawing its funding from Planned Parenthood, Michael Bloomberg has announced that he'll be donating up to $250,000 towards breast cancer screenings.
It's tough to dislike Amazon Publishing if they're going to force the price of books to come down, Michael Bloomerg's taste in fiction as appraised by Harold Bloom, and Men Kampf won't be published in Germany this week.
Proving that politicians attempting to speak a foreign language will never not be funny, a new Twitter account parodying Mitt Romney's French skills follows up on Newt Gingrich's bizarrely off-topic attack ad on his Francophone rival.
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Following some grumpy pushback from seemingly everyone, the Mayor Bloomberg's office said they have no plans to limit the sale of alcohol in New York City, adding "there are no bad ideas in brainstorming."
Sugar? Check. Tobacco? Check. Trans-fats? Check. Hmm, what other substantive vice does New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg have left to crack down on? Oh, alcohol!
Rats and roaches and other assorted vermin aren't knocking New Yorkers like they used to, as the average life expectancy of a newborn today in New York is 2.4 years higher than the national average.
The New York Times goes deep on the testy relationship between the mayor and the governor.
According to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will announce today that Cornell University has won the city's competition to open a new technology-based campus on Roosevelt Island.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday that police didn't stop journalists from covering the Nov. 15 clearing of Zuccotti Park: "We didn't keep anybody from reporting, you just had to stand to the side."
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg continued his press tour touting New York City as the place for tech startups in a sit-down with TechCrunch, and he didn't miss the opportunity to brag about how he once dealt with unemployment.
Michael Bloomberg is the 21st-century Monopoly man, minus the monocle, who peddles information and influence instead of colorful real estate.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has shifted gears a few times during the lifespan of the Occupy Wall Street encampment, but of late he's settled into a wait-and-see attitude that relies on outside factors such as the weather to help him end the situation.
As Mayor Michael Bloomberg steps up his anti-protester rhetoric, Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York are girding for a showdown with police who they fear will be sent to evict them at any time.
Today, Mayor Bloomberg reportedly hinted at what could be used as tipping point for clearing Zuccotti Park: crime at the encampment.
New York City police and firefighters calmly walked into the Occupy Wall Street encampment and cleared out their electric generators and the fuel that runs them.
Though it may be pocket change for New York's mayor, John Haggerty isn't getting off easy for stealing from Michael Bloomberg's campaign.
Even though Mayor Bloomberg seems to have mixed feelings about Occupy Wall Street, he's making it clear that he's not one to tolerate protests without permits, in Zuccotti Park or elsewhere.
Another late night incident for Shia LaBeouf, a chilly White House reception for former Clinton aides, and Michael Bloomberg's television viewing habits.
Commissioner Ray Kelly says protesters won't be able to sleep in the park after Friday
Mayor Bloomberg's girlfriend sits on the board of the company that owns the park
Plus: Michael Bloomberg and Roger Ailes bury the sodium hatchet
The City Council backs off a bill requiring mayors to disclose their vacations
Plus: Michael Bloomberg is the best big brother a kid could ask for
A walk through of the New York mayor's gaudy townhouses
Poorer neighborhoods aren't getting a lot of requests for the city's bike share program
The threat is of potential car bombings in New York or D.C.
Power outages as the weakening hurricane makes progress up the East Coast
A local crime report cites a Bloomberg non-sequitur
Plus: Sexual harassment complaints do not play well with critics
No evidence discrimination against mothers and pregnant women was 'standard operating procedure'
Plus: Prince William gives Kate Middleton his mother's "most prized set of jewels."
Same sex couples surge into state's capitol in record breaking numbers
It's a 22,000-square-foot home on a 35-acre estate
He'll preside over the marriage of two city officials on July 24
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