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The Teachers' Contract Up Close

NYC teachers, despite larger classes are earning 20-30% less than their suburban counterparts. Would you really want to pay an emplyee $100K/yr to copy memos? The contract does contain inefficiencies and has room for improvement, but playing this kind ...

From ALISON LEIGH COWAN, The New York Times,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michael Bloomberg,  Joel I Klein

Hey, Brother, Can You Spare the Time?

I thought this was a joke when I read this article. Watches, scarves, backpacks and other holiday gifts purchased on taxpayer money for the homeless? What a great way to spend my tax dollars. This is madness. Most of these people probably just tunr ...

From ALISON LEIGH COWAN, The New York Times,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Rolex

He Was There. Now, His Papers Are, Too.

Courtesy of University of Texas at Austin Walter Cronkite, as a student at the University of Texas at Austin, kept a photo of his mother, Helen, in his room. He dropped out of the University of Texas at Austin in 1935 as a junior, because of what he ...

From ALISON LEIGH COWAN, NYT: City Room,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: University of Texas,  Dolph Briscoe,  Alice B. Toklas,  NASA

Firefighter Test Brings New Haven a Fresh Suit

The city of New Haven, which the United States Supreme Court found this year to have discriminated against a group of mostly white firefighters, was hit with another federal lawsuit on Thursday, this time from a black firefighter who contends that the ...

From ALISON LEIGH COWAN, The New York Times,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David Rosen,  Frank Ricci

Hawking History and Cutting Corners

Ángel Franco/The New York Times A street vendor near ground zero sold commemorative World Trade Center booklets this week. Names and words are misspelled. “United State of America.” “America will strand steadfast.” Chunks of text are missing. Tourists ...

From ALISON LEIGH COWAN, The New York Times,  11 Sep 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company

Sure, Obama Won, but Look Who Else Got Votes

Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art “The Death of Socrates,” 1787, Jacques-Louis David. Though neither a citizen nor alive, Socrates received one vote. What exactly motivates the write-in voter? Faced with the decision over whom to pick for the ...

From ALISON LEIGH COWAN, NYT: City Room,  8 Sep 2009

Related Topics: New York Knicks,  Barack Obama,  Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Joyce Brothers,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

A Library's Approach to Books That Offend

Ruby Washington/The New York Times The vault-like room in the Brooklyn Public Library where “Tintin au Congo” was reshelved after a patron took issue with the book. The cartoonist Hergé is popular again, as is his adventurous reporter Tintin, who will ...

From ALISON LEIGH COWAN, The New York Times,  19 Aug 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Henry Miller,  Ann Coulter,  Toni Morrison,  Harold Robbins

Yearning to blend in, immigrant became John Doe

first person to contend with such issues. The name is a centuries-old legacy of the English legal system; John Doe was often used as a stand-in for the real name of a witness who sought to protect his identity. New York » After he came to America ...

From ALISON LEIGH COWAN THE NEW YORK TIMES, Salt Lake Tribune,  1 Aug 2009

Related Topics: John Doe,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Google Inc.

Split Decision for Officers Alleging Bias in Promotions

Greenwich unlawfully discriminated against five of the eight African-American and Latino police officers who sued the town three years ago, a federal jury ruled this week in a closely watched case. Those five will share damage awards totaling $157,000 ...

From ALISON LEIGH COWAN, The New York Times,  30 Jul 2009

Related Topics: John Rodriguez,  Carlos Franco,  John Wayne

A Name Only a Lawyer Could Love

Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times Unlike the boy named Sue, this man cannot blame his parents. After he came to America from Korea more than three decades ago, Jang Do wanted what many immigrants have always wanted: to fit in. So he decided to ...

From ALISON LEIGH COWAN, The New York Times,  29 Jul 2009

Related Topics: John Doe,  New York Times Company,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Google Inc.,  Jean Parker

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