Michael Bloomberg

Another Path to a Billion (at Motley Fool)

I know the secret to becoming a billionaire investor. Oh, to be an owner Of the top 10 members of Forbes' latest list of the nation's 400 richest, four started firms that earned billions: Bill Gates' Microsoft is first, Warren...

Golisano plans to remain a high-profile political player

After spending about $4.4 million on Senate and Assembly races around the state this election season, Buffalo Sabres owner B. Thomas Golisano says there’s lots more money where that came from. His Responsible New York committee...

Mid-Morning Read: M.T.A.'s Massive Cuts, Session in Albany, Speeches in Suffolk

Due to enormous budget problems, the M.T.A. is killing the W and Z lines, halving stops on the G and M, laying off 1,500 workers and reducing the number of trains. Without a government bailout, it will get worse. With action...

Big Shake-Up at New York Tech Meetup

On Nov. 11, Scott Heiferman looked small standing in front of the glowing, 11-foot-high video walls in the lobby of Barry Diller’s glittering, $100 million InterActiveCorp building on West 18th Street. “There’s a great...

City Announces 2009 Internet Week

Organizers announced today that Internet Week New York will take place from June 1 to June 8 next year. This will be the second year for the event and, in 2009, the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea will serve as the official...

Budget Analyst: Bloomberg Draining His 'Rainy-Day Fund'

The head of the Citizens Budget Commission, Carol Kellerman, draws a comparison between Michael Bloomberg's use of $2 billion set aside to pay for future health-care costs and draining a trust fund. “He’s using it in the short...

Price tours security sites in New York

U.S. Rep. David Price, whose district includes a large part of the Triangle, on Monday toured security sites in New York City, met with N.Y. Gov. David Paterson and stopped for dinner with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city's...

Wayne's World, Party Time, Excellent

A little while ago I chatted with erstwhile Libertarian vice presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root today, to get a grapple on where the LP is going after 2008. Root didn't figure much into Brian Doherty's excellent rundown of...

Union prez: Teacher pay tied to performance works

WASHINGTON -- Performance-based pay is a road many teachers don't want to travel. But the newly elected president of one of the country's largest teachers unions says that in her experience, school-wide bonuses work.

UPDATE 1-NYSE member firm losses worst in 30 years -report

By Joan Gralla NEW YORK, Nov 17 (Reuters) - New York Stock Exchange member firms wracked up their biggest losses in 30 years in the 12 months ended Sept. 30, 2008, a City Council report said on Monday. 'In the 30 years that...