Taxi Lobbyist Control of the Election Process Becomes Extortion
When councilmembers from the outer boroughs vote against providing more taxi services to their members it is no long normal politics. When councilmembers from Manhattan do not put pressure on the taxi industry to change have they all go off shift at 4PM, who are they helping. The answer is they are helping the taxi industry. But Why? Taxi lobbyists are a part of a small group of lobbyists who control who gets the money for reelection, higher office or who gets a well finance challenger against them at the next election. Instead of better service we get higher fares. The Taxi lobbyist have so much power over the Council they don't even attempt to trade higher fares tor better service. Bloomberg who tries to provide better service with good ideas does not have what it takes to fight the council.The Taxi lobbyists have almost put the Pedi (bike) taxis out of business.Pedi peeve: City to set limits.
NYC Taxi Drivers Want Pay Raise, So Fare Hike Possible (WCBS) * Cab drivers ask for 15-percent hike in fares to combat rising gas prices (NYP) * As Workers Go Off Duty, So Do Cabbies. How Odd. - New York Times * Taxi drivers, beware! Mayor Bloomberg to crack down on cabbies who refuse outerborough fares * City Shelves a Plan to Legalize Hailing Livery Cabs (NYT) * Taxi drivers to outerborough fares: Take a hike | Crain's New York ... * Outer Boroughs Get No Cab Love in Livery Plan Letdown(Village Voice) * Assemblyman Micah Kellner and TLC Commissioner David Yassky squared off on Facebook over the taxi of tomorrow.
As the Counicl Get Ready to Cut Services to Schools, Police and Seniors They Give Us More Parking
Where is the Transparency?
Where are the stories about the new budget? What will be cut? The media is helping the council and mayor to do all this in secret.
Council Moving to Ease Parking Reducing the number of days that motorists must deal with alternate-side-of-the-street parking regulations. (WSJ) * Proposed Bill Could Reserve Parking For Moving New Yorkers (NY1) * Mayor $lapped over Cath (NYP) * Pol eyes 'ed. ax' reforms Hearings planned (NYP) * The first test for NYC Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott: Tomorrow’s Panel for Educational Policy meeting. He’s hinting at changes, saying: “You never know what I’m liable to do.” *
Bloomberg Cathie Black claim100 mill damages by Parent's Union (Video)
Another Computer Consultant Crook
Ex-Consultant Accused of Stealing Millions From Schools
Another Black Eye for Ed Dept. Tech Effort (Gotham Gazatte)
NY's Promised Economic Recovery Ends A Block Passed Wall Street
Construction Spending Hits A 5-Year Low Construction spending in New York City dropped 12% last year, falling to its lowest level since 2005.(WSJ)* State Comptroller Details New York's Slow Economic Recovery (NY1) * Big Apple construction work plummets (NYP)
More Americans sought unemployment benefits last week(NYP)
NYPD: You Can Spin But You Can't Hide
NYPD scandal is spreading like a malignant tumor
Cops sweating bullets as probes expand Brazen city cops were caught on wiretaps calling in ticket-fix favors to the State Police, Yonkers PD, Port Authority PD and Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, The Post has learned. "They have cops on wires talking about fixing tickets with other agencies," a police source said yesterday.(NYP) * Tix fixer in 'a' hole 'Swears' on tape he can nix it (NYP)* NYPD Ticket Fixing Scandal: Criminologists Link Practice to Downgrading Crimes(Village Voice) *NYPD Now Giving Tickets for Biking on the Wrong Part of the Street (Village Voice)
Ticket-Fixing Investigation & Police Escort of P. Diddy
Mayor, Aiming at Police, Takes on a Pet Peeve Two matters have given Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg a chance to vent about people who get special treatment. (NYT) * Hip-hoppin' mad (NYP)
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NYPD Ticket Fixing Scadal Reporting So Far(True News)
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Illegal Subdivides Is A Problem Nobody Wants to Acknowledge
Many of the poor push out of illegal apartments will end up in a homeless shelter or the street
Evidence of 2nd firetrap in Bronx, owned by same landlord as first (NYDN) * Tragic reality begins to sink in for pair of fire orphans (NYDN)
Test for Schools Chief Thursday night will be Dennis Walcott's first Panel for Educational Policy meeting as New York's schools chancellor, and with it, the public's first chance to see if he will carry his informal style into his new position. (WSJ) * In a rare change for chancellors, Walcott visits closing school (NYDN) * Chancellor Walcott Spends First School Day At Troubled Schools (NY1)
City Council Questions Distribution of Park Officers More officers in Manhattan than in any other borough. (NYT)
City Scales Back Demotions in Sanitation After an arbitrator finds that the demotions would strip supervisors of seniority, the Bloomberg administration changes course.
Misuse of Official Parking Placards Is Widespread, Report Finds (NYT)
1 in 4 Parking Permits Are Phony, Says Report (Village Voice)
Cuomo Continues to Bang the Special Interests
Pension Rules Kick In(WSJ) * Cuomo promises 'most aggressive' strengthening of rent regulations (NYDN) * Andy's electric 'charge' Probes LIPA hikes (NYP) * “Time is getting short” for state worker unions to make a contract deal with the administration and the decision on layoffs “will come shortly,” Cuomo said.
Audits Find Widespread Waste in Albany Spending Duplication, inefficiency and overcharges plague New York State government’s operations, audits by the Cuomo administration have found.
Councilwoman Margaret Chin's bid to criminalize buying counterfeit goods discounts common sense (NYDN)
Parking Attendant Stabbed In Robbery (Fox 5) *
VIDEO: Man Stabbed With Huge Butcher Knife in Thwarted Robbery
VIDEO: Thugs caught on camera in attack of garage attendant (NYDN)
Three Suspects Allegedly Rob Several Deliverymen In East Village(NYDN) * Brutal Attack On Food Deliveryman Caught On Tape In Morningside Heights (WCBS)
Two Arrested in Attack on Deliveryman Caught on Tape (NYT) * Robbery suspect pretending to be deaf and mute: shrink (NYDN) * Woman, 54, found dead in bed with gunshot wound to head (NYDN) * Heartless thugs caught, but son still crying for slain mom (NYDN) * Vinny Gorgeous gripes: Where's the beef? (NYDN) * Queens Judge Speaks Out On Murderer's Sentence (NY1) * Woman found shot to death in bed (NYDN) * Attempted robbery and stabbing in Mott Haven (WABC) * Woman found fatally shot in Brooklyn apartment (WABC) * Cops nab suspect wanted for spate of stickups in Stapleton * Mob trial testimony links love child to Anthony LoBianco, former co-owner of Staten Island's Trattoria Romana (SI advance)
In a highly unusual move, a judge has set a time limit for both sides to make their respective cases in the upcoming 9/11 wrongful death trial.
“My name is Barack Obama. I was born in Hawaii. I’m President of the United States. And I’m running for reelection. Nobody checked my ID on the way in.”
Presidential Attends Trio Of City Fundraisers (NY1) * Obama hits NYC for trio of fund-raisers(NYDN) * Obama’s NYC Campaign Donations May Not Be So Plentiful This Time (WCBS) * The purpose of Obama’s latest trip to the Big Apple was, in part, to try to make peace with deep-pocketed Wall Street donors. * Obama NYC: Hecklers by AIDS activists who tried using fake press passes to enter.
Jon Stewart Takes Down The Media And Trump For Obama Birth Certificate Controversy
Odd Jobs: Guiding Penn Station’s Trains (WSJ)
Will NJ Let Carl Lewis Run?
Can Carl Lewis Run? Legal Maneuvers Continue (WSJ)
Profitable NYSE Focused on Merger Exchange operator NYSE Euronext posted a 19% rise in first-quarter net profit and said planning for its agreed tie-up with Deutsche Boerse AG is on track.(WSJ) * Pressure Mounts on Big Board (WSJ)
Day 4 of deliberations at insider trading trial of Galleon chief
David Letterman’s Top 10 Surprises Found On Obama’s Birth Certificate
Finally, a List of Who You Have to Blow in the New York State Senate to Get Gay Marriage
Lara Logan Reveals Details of Her Sexual Assault in Egypt
CBS Reporter Talks About Her Assault in Egypt(NYT)
