Charles Schumer

Sandy Recovery Continues: 86,000 Jobs Lost In Storm; Obama Asks For $50 Billion In Aid

Amidst talks of the now-notorious New York Post cover and the fiscal cliff dilemma, the November jobs report slowly crept out into the news stream - a sheer side-effect of the unfortunate fact that the election is now over and unemployment stats have less of a dramatic effect on our national convers ... More >>

Goodbye, Chemical Cannabis? U.S. Senate OKs Fake Pot Ban

The U.S. Senate has just put the kibosh on K2. After a months-long effort to ban synthetic marijuana, spearheaded by the Empire State's very own Charles Schumer, the Senate voted today to ban the sale of fake bud.

More iPhone-Related Crime: Arrests Tied to Chef's Murder and Early Morning Subway Stabbing

Two news stories are developing this weekend that involve iPhone-related violence. The New York Post is reporting that a teen is now fighting for his life after he was stabbed early this morning during a fight over an iPhone at a Fordham Heights subway station. Apparently, the 19-year-old saw th ... More >>

GOP Convention Underway: Meet Your "Extreme" Candidates For Senate Right Here

​New York's GOP convention kicked off today in Rochester, and state Dems are using the occasion to sling a little mud at the three Republican candidates for Senate -- and by "mud," we mean facts.Three GOP hopefuls for the Senate seat held by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand are Manhattan attorney Wendy ... More >>

New York Pols Respond to Obama's State of the Union

Hooray for Obama! Just keep your promises! That seemed to be the message that tied together several electeds' obligatory response statements to the president's State of the Union on Tuesday. After his speech ended, Runnin' Scared's inbox was flooded with reactions from local pols. So we gathered a ... More >>

Bloomberg Takes Flak at Facebook Presser for Comment About Firing Teachers

​Mayor Bloomberg, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg announced today that Facebook is opening an engineering office in New York City. Though Facebook already has 100 employees in New York, this is their first engineering office outside the West Coast. It will open in early 2 ... More >>

Here Comes the Pride Parade, All Dressed in White

Esther ZuckermanChristine Quinn​At this year's Pride March the Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps added a surprise number, trombone player Jeff Nordahl told us before the parade started: a "wedding medley." Right after the purple and white clad band marched away from their station between Madison a ... More >>

Beware: Ray Kelly for Next FBI Director?

Bath Salts Move Closer to Ban After Another Violent Episode

​Seth Thomas Sanders, a 31-year-old Pennsylvania man, was arrested for breaking into a home and attacking two cars, including a cop car, because "he thought he was being chased by electricity," according to police, as reported by the Patriot-News. It was 1 a.m. and the man had snorted the lega ... More >>

Four Loko Banned in New York

Never forget​It was too good to be true. We warned you last weekend that Four Loko, the $3 canned, caffeinated beverage that equals something like six beers and a cup of coffee, was in danger of being banned by the state of New York. Just yesterday we had some indication that Senator Chuck Sch ... More >>

General Loko From the Front Lines: New York's Crusade Against Four Loko Continues

​Last weekend we learned that New York state, led by Senator Chuck Schumer, was attempting to ban the caffeinated alcoholic beverage Four Loko by circumventing the FDA and changing the law. Then, in a typically antagonistic move, daring the authorities to touch him, local chef Eddie Huang, a.k ... More >>

Election Update: Wins Called for Andrew Cuomo, Kirsten Gillibrand, Chuck Schumer

​According to early exit polls, Andrew Cuomo is the new governor of New York. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer also maintain their spots in the Senate, as was pretty much expected. According to an AP analysis of poll results, three-quarters of moderates supported Cuomo over Paladi ... More >>

On Gay Rights, Barack Obama Fights the Bad Fight

Barack Obama has tried to walk a fine line between talking LGBT rights and not doing much about it, and some gays and lesbians have given him a pass on not going on the offense on their behalf during a time of two wars and a comatose economy. But the dwindling LGBT support the president has is pro ... More >>

Wall Street Runs for Congress

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

Martha Stewart Saves Emiril Lagasse; Mike Huckabee Invited to a Big Gay Dinner Party

​Hummus maker, Sabra, is leaving its Astoria, Queens location this summer and moving its headquarters to a larger space in Richmond, Va. [Crain's] Yet another look at the popularity of raising chickens in New York City highlights online meeting groups for urban poultry farmers. [NY Daily News ... More >>

Blame French Canada: New York's Maple Syrup Rival

frostnova/flickrSyrup: a sweet boon for the state?​ First, it taunted us with its poutine and smoked meat sandwiches. Now, Quebec has become the target of Senator Charles Schumer's new maple syrup scheme. According to a Times opinion piece, he hopes to have New York eclipse French Canada as th ... More >>

Week in Review: Like a Sexy Swedish Chick in a Natural Mineral Sauna

Yup, this photo was taken in 2009, by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week Chuck Schumer became a bike-riding, Williamsburg Pool Party-saving hipster man of the people, we roamed far and wide over his most precious borough, from an Obama Fried Chicken in Brownsville to the very likely defunct N8 to the ... More >>

Respect and admiration, now half price or less

So, that $40 million Mr. Bloomberg, Commissioner Kelly, and Senate Homeland Security Chair Mr. Lieberman (along with ranking member Long Island's Mr. King and some other Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee) asked for to fund sensors that detect radioactive materials and dirty bombs ... More >>

Grizzly Bear Was Also At Grizzly Bear's Williamsburg Waterfront Pool Party

Sam HorineHey, look, Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste went to that Jay-Z show yesterday in Williamsburg. ​A whole summer's worth of Jelly NYC Pool Parties on the Williamsburg waterfront took a bow yesterday, as Grizzly Bear, Beach House, and Vega played the final Sunday of the 2009 series. Solange Kno ... More >>

Bloomberg and Schumer Happy About Ferry Cash, Reminding Us of a Certain Fatal Crash

By Tom Feeney Jr. ​When Mike Bloomberg announced the injection of nearly $50 million of federal stimulus funds into the maintenance of the Staten Island Ferry recently, he issued a press release also crediting US senator Charles Schumer and other members of the New York's congressional delegation. ... More >>

Sotomayor Approved by Judiciary Committee

Sonia Sotomayor's appointment to the Supreme Court has just been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee en banc. All the Democrats (Herb Kohl, Dianne Feinstein, Russell Feingold, Chuck Schumer, Benjamin Cardin, Dick Durbin, Al Franken, Sheldon Whitehouse, Amy Klobuchar, Ed Kaufman, Arlen Specter ... More >>

Obama the Political Fixer Works New York's Senate Primary

The president gets a hand in the back room

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

We know how you feel, kid. Via Craftser via urlesque. We suspect Obama got that Iranian-American reporter released, and he's certainly trying to help refugees and rescue us from financial criminals. But does he get credit? No -- because he he laughed at Wanda Sykes, just like all the newly-reclas ... More >>

Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Yeah, we finally made it to Citi Field Wednesday. What do we think? We think Johan Santana is awesome. Swine Flu fucked up Cinco de Mayo, continued to be funny until we got it. Wait, actually it's still pretty funny, especially since we really didn't get swine flu. But even if! Anyway Raccoon ... More >>

Massa, Schumer Force Time Warner to Drop Tiered Internet Pricing

We mentioned Monday that Congressman Eric Massa (pictured) has been pushing a bill to outlaw tiered internet service, inspired by Time Warner Cable's attempt to introduce higher rates for heavy users in Rochester, New York, part of Massa's district, and two other jurisdictions. It looks as if Time W ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Before he became Mayor Bloomberg's 2009 campaign manager, Bradley Tusk had been a Lehman Brothers lobbyist, a Parks Department functionary, a Chuck Schumer spokesman, a Bloomberg adviser -- and, for four years, Rod Blagojevich's deputy governor. Among Tusk's assignments under Hot Rod was a dicey f ... More >>

Barrett: Weiner's Democracy Lesson

(Photo from Weiner for Mayor)We all know how sacrosanct the rights of the electorate are to Anthony Weiner, the congressman running for mayor. During the term limits debate last fall, Weiner railed about how the will of the voters should be respected. (Of course, the will of voters had twice favored ... More >>

Paterson Presents Senator Gillibrand

Your new Senator with Al D'Amato (l.) "So it's August the 14th, 2003," says Governor Paterson, "and I am going to meet a lawyer who is going to be meeting me in an office building in Manhatan." (He wanted her not to run for Congress in '04, as she had planned, but the state senate.) "All the light ... More >>

Six Signs of a Sick Economy

Read this and then start hunting for some recession-proof bargains

Daniel Squadron, The Mouthy Candidate Who Won't Talk

The young dynamo wants to beat veteran state senator Martin Connor without answering too many questions

W. Indian American Day Parade Hot, Loud, Fun

Proxy Wars: RightBloggers Attack Obama Via Jackson, Gramm, Schumer, and Bernie Mac

The FISA Bill: Why Did Four of NY's House Democrats Fold?

The Mourning After: More Tim Russert Coverage

Dead Man Talking

What the Democrats Must Do

Mandate for the new majority: Curb the president's power to torture

Anchors Way, Way Away

Port Security and the Politics of a Good Story

'Bush Lied, 2,000 Died'

New Yorkers take to the streets in protest of the war in Iraq

Cindy Sheehan Pledges Civil Disobedience Campaign

Peace mom plans more arrests in D.C.—and Thanksgiving in Crawford

Weiner & The Rating Game

Ferrer's Color-Coded Victory Plan

A Freddy win in September could pose a demographic dilemma for big-bucks Mike

His Dear Friends

Tricks of the trade among the big givers and big takers of political campaign cash

Mike Wallace v. Charles Schumer

Will Chuck Schumer, or any anti-Pickering revilers, finally apologize to the judge?

A Judge's Life: The Final Reckoning

'Look at the Justice System From a Black Perspective'

The Ordeal of Charles Pickering

Are Times Editorials Fact-Checked?

Lawmakers Call for New Pollution Limits

Abandoned by Prez, Republicans on Hill Push Curbs

Shake the Trees

After the Latest Police Killing of Another Unarmed Black Man, The Feds Need Little Convincing to Intervene in New York

Millennial Matchup

Zany and Historical Factors That Will Make Rudy or Hill a Winner 

Damaged Care

'if you're having a heart attack, please press 2...'

The Last Reformer?

Mark Green's Senate Campaign Ignores the Isms (as in Leftism)