Note to Unions: The Coffee Break Is Over
Many New Yorkers are being asked to share the burden of lifting the city out of its budget morass. Thus far, however, New York's powerful public-employee unions have been on a prolonged coffee break....
View ArticleGrasso and McCall: Foxes Guarding The Henhouse
In the business world, the story of the early 21st century is bleak indeed. The public learned that many giant companies, presided over by highly compensated executives, engaged in fraud and deception...
View ArticleThe Plutocrats Run Wild And Democracy Suffers
For several years, those of us with a heart and a sense of fair play had been worried that Richard Grasso, the head of the New York Stock Exchange, wasn't going to get a fair shake on his compensation....
View ArticleSuozzi’s Hope
Tom Suozzi has been telling people for a long time that he'll primary Eliot Spitzer for Governor, and Spitzer adversary Ken Langone apparently takes him at his word. "How much does Ken Langone hate...
View ArticleLangone vs. Spitzer
Ken Langone is set formally to launch his crusade against Eliot Spitzer at a speech to the Cato Institute today, Reuters reports. Not exactly helpful to Spitzer, as Langone can presumably raise quite a...
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Friday Interview: Tom Suozzi, “Liberated” By Langone
It didn't seem quite right to ask the Nassau County Executive to do the interview via instant message, as has been the Friday routine on The Politicker, so I got myself slotted into his extensive call...
View ArticleSomebody Oughta Tell Eliot
A correction in this week's New York Magazine: "In 'The City Politic: The Suozzi-Spitzer Showdown'...the head of the New York Stock Exchange compensation committee that gave final approval to the 139.5...
View ArticleElsewhere: Spitzer, Faso, Bloomberg
Before ruling that it's okay for Eliot Spitzer to sit on a charitable trust which is regulated by his office, a member of the State Ethics Commission, Karl Sleight, got a little help on-line. And of...
View ArticleMorning Read: September 14, 2006
The Times raises the curtain on Cuomo vs. Pirro, which promises to be the most entertaining, if not the ugliest, race of the general election. We even get a "cackle" from Cuomo. The News calls his...
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A Sympathetic Look at Grasso the Greedy
KING OF THE CLUB: RICHARD GRASSO AND THE SURVIVAL OF THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE By Charles Gasparino Collins, 400 pages, $27.95 In the fall of 2002, Kenneth Langone, co-founder of Home Depot and head...
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