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Rudy Book
We suspect you’ll be hearing a lot about Fred Siegel’s new Rudy book, which we mentioned in our story this week. He’s reading from it today at a Manhattan Institute event, and we suspect that’s just...
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Manhattan Institute Takes a Dive
I’d sort of expected the free-speech conservatives over at the Manhattan Institute to appreciate how the logic of Steve Minarik’s attack on the Drum Major Institute threatens them. Minarik’s underlying...
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Wonk Fight!
The folks over at the liberal Drum Major Institute seem to have enjoyed the Times’s story today on the Manhattan Institute‘s waning local influence, and add their own slap: “Certainly the Manhattan...
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Some Politicians See A Kelly Candidacy in ’09
New York clearly demonstrated its confidence in Mayor Michael Bloomberg by handing him an overwhelming victory in Tuesday’s election. But it is Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly who enjoys widespread...
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Some Politicians See A Kelly Candidacy in ’09
New York clearly demonstrated its confidence in Mayor Michael Bloomberg by handing him an overwhelming victory in Tuesday’s election. But it is Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly who enjoys widespread...
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Mixing It Up
In a New York Sun article on Williamsburg’s Schaefer Landing, which will have 210 condos and 140 low-income apartments once it is finished next year, Manhattan Institute scholar Julia Vitullo-Martin...
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Manhattan Institute, California Style
The Manhattan Institute has a well-produced indictment of Albany out today, and a new Web site to go with it. Their bottom line is that the state taxes and spends too much, and the targets for blame...
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Weld’s Takings
Bill Weld had his audition for the theoretically friendly, in fact polite but unenthusiastic, audience at a Crains New York Business breakfast at the Sheraton this morning. On the substance, the most...
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New Republic’s Ivory Tower: Extra Phallic!
Yesterday, The New Republic introduced its readers to The Open University, its “first-of-its-kind blog, featuring America’s top academics on today’s top stories.” As promised, there are lots of...
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A Giuliani Conservative Tilts at Religion
Rudolph Giuliani has repeatedly extended the hand of friendship to Christian conservatives in recent months. But a leading member of a think tank closely associated with the former Mayor has just...
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Rudy at 90 Percent
Steve Malanga, senior fellow at Giuliani’s preferred think tank, the Manhattan Institute, thinks that Rudy Giuliani’s formation of a exploratory committee for president was as good as an official...
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Congestion Pricing For Manhattan Accelerates
Another sign the debate over congestion pricing for auto-heavy areas, if not congestion pricing itself, is coming our way: The Manhattan Institute (whom one would think would be against these things)...
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Spitzer on Regulation
More on the potential conflict between the corporate watchdog role Eliot Spitzer has played for the last eight years and the economic cheerleader role he’s about to take on: Here’s a clip of Spitzer...
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Murdoch's NY Forecast Calls for Rain
Rupert Murdoch thinks New York State is headed for a crisis, he explained during a speech last night at Cipriani, where he and former Mayor Ed Koch were honored by the conservative Manhattan Institute....
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Jeb Bush, Michael Bloomberg Speak at Snooty, Exclusive Club
At an education-themed event today hosted by the Manhattan Institute featuring Jeb Bush and Michael Bloomberg, something happened. There’s probably more to say. But despite the fact that the event was...
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Around the time Human Resources Administration commissioner Verna Eggleston was making a cameo appearance at Mike’s campaign launch, her agency quietly made a major — and ideologically-charged — policy...
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