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NY Driver Free to Put bin Laden Reminder on Car

Former NYPD officer settles fight with DMV over 9/11-related license plates

(Newser) - A retired New York City police officer is free to use the vanity license plate “GETOSAMA” after settling a yearlong dispute with the DMV, the AP reports. Arno Herwerth ordered the tags to remind fellow motorists that the Sept. 11 mastermind was still on the loose; the DMV delivered,...

Kennedy's Senate Push Irks NY Democrats

Gov. Paterson put off by inevitability talk, her Bloomberg ties

(Newser) - Many New York Democrats are getting increasingly annoyed with Caroline Kennedy’s push to be senator—most notably Gov. David Paterson, the man who’d have to give her the job, the New York Times reports. Paterson advisers say he’s frustrated Kennedy’s handlers are treating the appointment as...

Panhandling MIT Grad Gets Job
 Panhandling MIT Grad Gets Job 
Dec 24, 2008 10:09 AM CST

Panhandling MIT Grad Gets Job

After a year on dole, and months into publicity stunt, banker rejoins workforce

(Newser) - Out-of-work investment banker Joshua Persky gained a lot of publicity when he hung a sign around his neck reading “EXPERIENCED MIT GRAD FOR HIRE,” and passed out resumes on the streets of Manhattan—but no job offers. His wife and kids left New York to live with family,...

Bloomberg to NY Guv: Stop Stalling and Name Senator

Kennedy ally slams scrutiny, says process 'out of control'

(Newser) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pushing Gov. David Paterson to speed up his Senate appointment, the Daily News reports. “The governor should make a decision reasonably quickly because this is just getting out of control,” said the ally of Caroline Kennedy. “Everybody’s focusing on the...

Met Unveils X-Rated Renaissance

New exhibition includes 16th-century porn alongside masterpieces

(Newser) - Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, a new exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, comes with a warning to spectators: parental discretion advised. Mixed in with decorous portraits of noblemen are 16th-century pornographic images, dirty books, and other obscene artifacts. For Wall Street Journal critic James Gardner,...

Kennedy Won't Make Personal Disclosures Yet

She refuses to reveal financial info 'unless and until' she gets job

(Newser) - Caroline Kennedy has refused to disclose a variety of personal data, from which companies she has invested in to whether she has ever been charged with a crime, reports the New York Times. While candidates or sitting senators must make annual financial disclosures, potential appointees to a vacant seat have...

Times Bars Note on Caroline's Rumored Affair With Publisher

'We don't report that stuff,' sniffs Gray Lady

(Newser) - The New York Times will report almost anything newsworthy—except a rumored affair between its publisher and Caroline Kennedy, Gawker reports. When a reader commented on the paper’s City Room blog wondering if the Times would address the gossip surrounding the two, the comment was deleted with the explanation...

Biden's New Role: Help the Middle Class
Biden's New Role: Help the Middle Class
TALK SHOW ROUNDUP
Dec 21, 2008 10:50 AM CST

Biden's New Role: Help the Middle Class

Cheney blasts VP-elect; Emanuel cleared in Blago scandal

(Newser) - Joe Biden emerged from the shadows today and said he will lead a task force to strengthen the middle class, the AP reports. “We'll look at everything from college affordability to after-school programs,” he said on ABC's This Week. From the get-go, Biden told Barack Obama that he...

Caroline Backs Gay Marriage
Caroline Backs Gay Marriage
Dec 20, 2008 3:27 PM CST

Caroline Backs Gay Marriage

NY Senate hopeful begins offering views, generally sticks to Democratic line

(Newser) - As she campaigns for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat, Caroline Kennedy is finally opening up about some of her political stances. In a questionnaire provided by Politico, the 51-year-old expressed support for gay marriage, which Barack Obama opposes, and says she opposed the Iraq war from the get-go, unlike Hillary...

Krauthammer: Make Her Run for Office
 Krauthammer: 
 Make Her Run for Office  
OPINION
Dec 19, 2008 12:02 PM CST

Krauthammer: Make Her Run for Office

If Caroline Kennedy wants the Senate seat, she needs a better reason than her name

(Newser) - Don’t worry that Caroline Kennedy doesn’t have enough experience to be a senator; worry that she thinks she’s entitled to it because of her last name, writes Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post. Given that she hasn’t accomplished a whole lot, what else is Kennedy offering?...

Oops! Caroline Forgot to Vote
Oops! Caroline Forgot to Vote
Dec 19, 2008 3:48 AM CST

Oops! Caroline Forgot to Vote

Senate hopeful has skipped half of New York's elections in last 20 years

(Newser) - For someone who hopes to be a US senator, Caroline Kennedy has turned out to be a surprisingly unenthusiastic fan of voting, the New York Daily News has discovered. Kennedy has voted in only about half of 38 elections since moving to the city in 1988, according to records. She...

Cuomo Leads Kennedy in NY Poll
Cuomo Leads Kennedy in NY Poll
Dec 18, 2008 12:16 PM CST

Cuomo Leads Kennedy in NY Poll

Voters prefer AG by 3 points but predict Paterson won't pick him

(Newser) - New Yorkers would prefer that David Paterson pick Andrew Cuomo over Caroline Kennedy to fill Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat, a new poll shows. Cuomo leads Kennedy 26% to 23% in a Siena College survey of New York voters, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports. Despite the state AG’s...

Bloomberg Aide's Push for Caroline Sparks Ire

Fix is in for political nobility, grumble Dems

(Newser) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's right-hand man is twisting arms in support of Caroline Kennedy's Senate bid, and some Democrats are miffed about it, the New York Times reports. Bloomberg has stressed that strategist Michael Sheekey is acting as a private citizen but annoyed lawmakers see the mayor's fingerprints all...

Canvassing Upstate, Kennedy Dodges Queries
Canvassing Upstate, Kennedy Dodges Queries
ANALYSIS
Dec 17, 2008 3:24 PM CST

Canvassing Upstate, Kennedy Dodges Queries

Aides keep Kennedy mum in orchestrated senate bid

(Newser) - Caroline Kennedy pulled a Sarah Palin today, the New York Times reports, avoiding questions about her qualifications to take Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. After a listening session with the mayor of upstate Syracuse, aides whisked her into a waiting SUV. “Hopefully I can come back and answer all...

A Tough, Public Road Ahead for Kennedy

Caroline sacrifices privacy, risks her reputation with run

(Newser) - Caroline Kennedy has thrown her hat in the political ring, and with it her reputation and much-cherished privacy, the New York Times reports. Tabloids have long kept a respectful distance from JFK’s daughter, but now that she’s running, they’ll “relentlessly follow her across the state,”...

Caroline Hires Veteran Political Op

Kennedy hires consultant to spearhead Senate push

(Newser) - Caroline Kennedy wants Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, Politico reports, and she’s hired veteran consultant Josh Isay to calm the hype around her last name, give her image a boost, and get her networked. “She doesn’t know anybody, and he’s the guy to make the introductions and...

Plenty of Politics on Caroline's Resume

She's never held public office, but this Kennedy is an inside operator

(Newser) - Caroline Kennedy has never run for so much as dog catcher, and hasn’t even had a full-time job in years, so inevitably her desire to become a US senator has met with some skepticism. But Kennedy’s friends say her nonprofit work has made her a savvy inside operator...

Bus Tour Too Much Sex , Too Little City
 Bus Tour Too Much 
 Sex, Too Little City 
GLOSSIES
Dec 15, 2008 12:55 PM CST

Bus Tour Too Much Sex, Too Little City

Trip down memory lane is one Vanity Fair scribe would like to forget

(Newser) - Carrie & Co. wouldn’t be caught dead on a bus tour of Manhattan, but the half-day trek to various locations used for Sex and the City—a sex shop, the Meatpacking District, the Magnolia Bakery—has become the guilty secret of misguided fans looking to relive scenes from the...

New Yorkers Fight Crisis With Pills

Prescriptions shoot up in Sept., Oct.

(Newser) - At least there's one market that's booming in New York—the market for pills for your sleeplessness, anxiety, and depression, Crain’s New York Business reports. The meltdown in the financial industry has caused a surge in prescriptions: In September, as Lehman Brothers was collapsing, and AIG and Merrill Lynch...

Paterson Furious About SNL Skit

Governor outraged by SNL sketch

(Newser) - New York Gov. David Paterson is furious about a Saturday Night Live sketch that mocked his blindness, reports the New York Post. The sketch featured Fred Armisen mimicking Paterson's gravelly voice, brusque demeanor, and wandering sightless eye. Neither Paterson, who has been legally blind since childhood, nor advocates for the...

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