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Articles Written by: JACOB GERSHMAN
THIS week's legislative "special" session was a pointless mess, suggesting that Albany has resigned itself to fiscal insolvency. The battle over education spending offers the most revealing glimpse into the dysfunction. Gov. Paterson proposed slashing ...
From JACOB GERSHMAN,
New York Post,
13 Nov 2009
Short of printing out the city's campaign-finance statutes, dumping the pages on the street, dousing them with lighter fluid and striking a match, it's hard to see what else the Working Families Party could've done to raise suspicions about its ...
From JACOB GERSHMAN,
New York Post,
9 Nov 2009
HALLOWEEN is arriving a month early in Al bany -- where today's emergency budget summit will feature four legislative leaders and a ghost. Sitting around a table in a gilded chamber where Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt once held court, the lawmakers ...
From JACOB GERSHMAN,
New York Post,
23 Sep 2009
THE green-building craze sweeping the nation isn't so much a movement as a highly lucrative regime of payouts and misinformation. You could call it a moral-protection racket. In fact, "green" buildings don't even use less electricity. In less than a ...
From JACOB GERSHMAN,
New York Post,
21 Sep 2009
THE logic behind a Rudy Giuliani gubernatorial run is seductive: Unleash on Albany the man who restored public order to New York City. "Several times, [Rudy] said to me that he sees state government similar to where New York City was in 1993... ...
From JACOB GERSHMAN,
New York Post,
31 Aug 2009
WHY is the state Senate still stuck in its standoff? It comes down to this: Dem ocrats are too splintered to settle on any truce. Republicans are too desperate for survival to concede any ground. And lawmakers caught in the middle are too afraid to ...
From JACOB GERSHMAN,
New York Post,
2 Jul 2009
JOSEPH Massad's schol arly contribution during his decade as a faculty member of Columbia University's Middle East Studies Department may be summed up as follows: Israel is racist, and homosexuality is an insidious Western invention. Yet that was ...
From JACOB GERSHMAN,
New York Post,
29 Jun 2009
IF the battle over mayoral control were a Sherlock Holmes tale, it would be ti tled, "The Speaker That Didn't Obstruct." In a meeting with his conference Tuesday night, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver offered vigorous support for renewing Mayor ...
From JACOB GERSHMAN,
New York Post,
28 May 2009
IT'S an awkward mo ment for New York Democrats. The problem isn't so much with their candidate line-up -- it's that everybody's playing in the wrong positions. And there's no coach to make the switches and cuts. Democrats seem to be resigned to a ...
From JACOB GERSHMAN,
New York Post,
18 May 2009
TO understand the trag edy and folly of Medi caid in New York, the story of Mr. E is a good place to start. An eye-opening new report by the United Hospital Fund introduces us to Mr. E, a 62-year-old Medicaid patient suffering from diabetes, ...
From JACOB GERSHMAN,
New York Post,
13 May 2009
