Carolyn Maloney

9/11 Healthcare Worker Fund Will Now Start Covering Cancer Link

Thankfully, this bit of news is a little more resounding for the World Trade Center anniversary on Tuesday than our report of the political dispute between Bloomberg and Cuomo over the Museum funds from earlier today.According to the New York Post, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and ... More >>

Mayor Mike Bloomberg Talks Fashion, Flirts With Diane von Furstenberg

With the clock ticking on his time in office, Mayor Mike Bloomberg is making sure he earns some cool points during his final term. He kissed Lady Gaga. He chilled with the cast of Gossip Girl. Now, he's talking fashion. Similar to his love of the teeny bopper television hit, Bloomberg's love of ... More >>

80 Arrested Saturday In Occupy Wall Street Protests; Second Avenue Subway Gets Graded; Marathon World Record Set

Nick Pinto​Approximately 80 were arrested Saturday in connection with Occupy Wall Street, according to the NYPD's press office. Throughout yesterday afternoon Occupy Wall Street used Twitter to chronicled arrests and various acts of force being used by the NYPD against protesters. They say at ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Is Missed by Democrats...on the Baseball Field

​Aw. Democrats long for much-maligned sext-scandalized former Congressman Anthony Weiner after all! Because, if nothing else, he was really good at baseball. Now that he's gone, Democratic politicians are concerned about their chances in the annual Congressional Baseball Game. Via the New York ... More >>

Rally for Women's Rights Brings 6,000 to Foley Square

​Saturday's Rally for Women's Health in Foley Square served as a reminder that activism in America is alive and well, contrary to whatever the Internet might have been telling us. An estimated 6,000 people gathered at the event held by New York City's Planned Parenthood in an attempt to tell W ... More >>

This Weekend's NYC Rally Round-Up

LIFE.com ​With sparks flaring across the globe, from the Middle East to the Midwest and even our very own SoHo, what seems to be a moment for change is spreading rapidly. This weekend, New Yorkers will take to the streets in honor of two particularly relevant issues: women's health, and violen ... More >>

NY Primaries 2010: The Runnin' Scared Liveblog

​Ah, New York City! It's the day to vote in the election you know about and think you're going to vote in but might not, one in which the most suspenseful race of the day involves whether or not you actually care enough to get out there and pull the lever. We're going to be liveblogging and up ... More >>

Reshma Saujani's Road to Congress? Right Down Wall Street. Let Me Be Your Guide.

Pretend you're Reshma Saujani, 34, dazzling, born to an Indian family expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin, a Harvard and Yale Law School grad who returned to Africa to help build Nelson Mandela's post-apartheid government. It's late 2009 and everything you've done in your professional life since its i ... More >>

Carolyn Maloney, Pols Cash in on James Taylor-Carole King Concert, Showing They've Got Friends

​The Carole King - James Taylor concert tour hit DC last night, and among those crooning along at the Verizon Center to that syrupy boomer anthem, "You've Got a Friend," were a herd of lobbyists and Congress members who chose the occasion to practice the Beltway version of true friendship: A p ... More >>

Wall Street Runs for Congress

Lots of hedging from Carolyn Maloney's foe, hedge fund lawyer challenger Reshma Saujani

Your Morning Links

​Wednesday is, as our mom always told us, "Hump Day," which means only two more days until the weekend ... Woot. In the meantime, here's what you should know for today: • Speaking of moms, childbirth will probably not kill you. Dealing with your child may. • Sad news in China: A 7.1 mag ... More >>

Right Wing Gillibrand Continues to Destroy Democratic Party

​Today, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand blogged about her unyielding support to repeal the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. We have to wonder, what happened to the too conservative Gillibrand that was once predicted? When Gov. Paterson tapped her from New York's Republican-leaning 20th di ... More >>

Geraldine Ferraro Gets a Post Office Named After Her

She lost 49 states in her 1984 run for Vice-President of the United States (21 more than Sarah Palin!), and her attempt to win the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination for Hillary Clinton by telling people Obama got all the breaks because he's black didn't go over so well. But former New York con ... More >>

Times: Carolyn Maloney Won't Run Against Gillibrand

It looks like Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney isn't going to run against Kirsten Gillibrand after all. Though she seemed hot to challenge the appointed senator in 2011 from the left, various forces conspired against her: President Obama began leaning on potential Gillibrand challengers, dissuadin ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Twitpic by ethanvk. Well, our week was awful, but apparently we were in good company. Mayor Bloomberg came up with a wide-ranging, expensive transit plan including crosstown buses that would move slower than ever. He slapped back Bill Thompson's schools charges -- not convincingly to ... More >>

Barrett: Sharpton Scolds Maloney, and Naturally There's an Ulterior Motive

​Al Sharpton's rush to issue a statement this week denouncing Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney's use of the n-word in a magazine interview has once again made him a potential kingmaker. Thanks to Sharpton, Maloney may not stay in the 2010 senate race, making things easier for incumbent Kirsten Gillib ... More >>

Kirsten Gillibrand Gets "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Hearings

Appointed Senator Kirsten Gillibrand still isn't very well known in her own state, but maybe this will make a name for her: she has arranged for Congressional review of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that allows gay servicemembers to remain in the military so long as they don't reveal their stat ... More >>

Carolyn Maloney Uses N-Word in Quote, Is Sanctioned; Bloomberg Compares Senators to Nazis, Is Unrepentant

We assume most citizens have gotten past the point where they feel the need to refer to Huckleberry Finn's companion as African-American Jim. But in politics there are no free speech safe zones, and prospective Kirsten Gillibrand opponent Carolyn Maloney has been chastised and forced to apologize fo ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Dance troupe, Governor's Island. Boy, what a week. Gay Pride was effulgent as ever with three D.A. candidates voguing for the cameras, but marred by a gay-bashing on the Upper East Side. The authorities got involved and the cops went to work, and now it looks like there have been more such incide ... More >>

Dem Loyalists Keep Pestering Carolyn Maloney to Lay Off Gillibrand

Now that Carolyn Maloney has let it be known that she'll challenge Kirsten Gillibrand for the Democratic Senate nomination next year, she's going to learn who her real friends are. We already know what the White House thinks of Maloney's apostasy. Now 60 Democrats, some old supporters of Maloney, ha ... More >>

Carolyn Maloney Will Challenge Gillibrand in 2011

Despite a White House campaign that convinced Steve Israel, Carolyn McCarthy, and other Democrats not to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand's Senate seat in 2011 -- yes, they're being that cautious that early -- Carolyn Maloney has stubbornly refused to rule out a run against Gillibrand, whom she consider ... More >>

Hey, Guess What, David Paterson is Still Really Unpopular

The Quinnipiac University Polling Institute's been busy. Yesterday they released a poll on the legislature and how much we hate our state. Now they have new numbers on the Governor and other local characters. Will it surprise you to learn Paterson is unpopular? He's hanging in with a 61 percent disa ... More >>

Barrett: Schumer Protects Gillibrand from a Primary Challenge Citing His Record On Such Matters -- So We Checked That Record

Image from Howie Klein's "Down With Tyranny" blog (downwithtyranny.blogspot.com)As my colleague Tom Robbins explained last month, Chuck Schumer has been flexing his  considerable muscle to make sure that no elected Democrat challenges Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the accidental incumbent, in a 2 ... More >>

Quick Hits

Hiram Monserrate with Citizen Action protesters WTF? Twitpic by citizenactionny. Governor Paterson doesn't acknowledge Pedro Espada as the new president of the state senate, but he's not taking any chances: he says he won't leave the state, which conceivably would put us all at the mercy of Espa ... More >>

After White House Presses Maloney, McCarthy Backs Off Race Against Gillibrand

Yesterday some people were saying Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (pictured) was about to confirm a run against Kirsten Glllibrand for the Democratic Senatorial nomination in 2010. Maloney's response: "Where did you get that from? It's not true." Today a story went around about how Maloney either got ... More >>

Obama Speaks -- and Steve Israel Quits Race Against Gillibrand

It all happened so fast. Earlier we told you that House members from New York Carolyn McCarthy, Carolyn Maloney and Steve Israel were threatening to take down Kirsten Gillibrand in 2010. A day later, NARAL gave Kirsten Gillibrand its endorsement -- about a year early. Today Politico carries a stat ... More >>

She's Better on Guns, But NY House Dems Hassle Gillibrand Anyway

In a weirdly non-collegial display among New York legislators of the same party, House members Carolyn McCarthy, Carolyn Maloney and Steve Israel took time out of their presentation to reporters of their "No Fly, No Buy" bill to hassle new Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. "I don't know what she stands fo ... More >>

WPIX, Others Say Gillibrand Will Go to Senate

Despite the protestations of Wayne Barrett and Carolyn McCarthy, among others, it looks as if Governor Paterson is going with Kirsten Gillibrand. The Times says he's "leaning" toward her; WPIX "confirms" it; Politico's Glenn Thrush says it "looks like" Gillibrand. After the mad leaks of last night o ... More >>

Caroline Kennedy Out! (Update: Maybe Not!) (Update: Out!)

Here's news: the New York Post reports Caroline Kennedy is "withdrawing her name from consideration" for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. We would speculate that her role in this decision was more passive than portrayed. Other sources say she bowed out because of her Uncle Ted's recent illness, but wh ... More >>

Carolyn Maloney: Barrett Had "Best Story" on NY Senate Selection

Governor Paterson bailed on an interview today, complaining that he felt faint. Could be the burden of choosing Hillary Clinton's replacement -- which he said he'd do after tomorrow's inauguration -- is getting to him. Some politicians and press are beginning to tumble to what the Voice's Wayne Barr ... More >>

At Forum, Maloney "Absolutely" Wants Clinton Seat, Pelosi Defends Rangel, Palin

Financial Industry Rushes to Screw Us More Before Obama Gets In

Pragmatic and Defiant Supporters Greet Clinton in New York

Clearing the Air

Sorting solid claims about the 9/11 toxic cloud from the obscuring haze of uncertainty

Letters

The Children's Hour

The fight for legislation to help young prostitutes

Close-Up on Kips Bay

Close-Up on the Lower East Side

Lost in Translation

Will a former FBI translator finally get to tell us what she knows about 9-11?

Close-Up on Tudor City

Close-Up on Gramercy Park

New York's Bush League Democrats

From Hillary on Down, Pro-War Pols Expect to Pay No Price

Bush's War on Women, Part Two

The Myth of Progress

Stealth Misogyny

Bush's War on Women

Close-up on Peter Cooper Village

Close-Up On: Sunnyside

Close Up On: Roosevelt Island

Executive Bitch Slapping

The Widening Wage Gap Between Male and Female Managers Is a Corporate Equivalent of the Cultural Backlash

Nation

''I didn't— I swear I didn't— get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests. . . .''
—Texas Governor George W. Bush

Money Talks

Well-heeled incumbents heavily favored in city congressional races