Michael Bloomberg

NYC Triborough Bridge renamed for Robert Kennedy

New York City's Triborough Bridge will officially be renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge in a dedication ceremony Wednesday. The New York senator was assassinated in 1968 while campaigning for the Democratic presidential...

Thousands Gather For Stuffing Of Giant Rockefeller Center Turkey

Vatican Employees Unable To Relax At Holiday Party With Pope Around December 4, 2006 NEW YORK—In what has become a Thanksgiving tradition, more than 10,000 locals and tourists alike braved the cold Monday to watch the annual...

CMA 50th Anniversary - Taking Country into the New Millennium

CMA/ Nashville, TN -- By Deborah Evans PriceAs CMA entered its fourth decade after having helped grow Country Music to worldwide popularity, ambitions were set even higher and momentum continued to build as CMA rushed into the...

Perdue beefs up diversity on transition team

Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue named a group of women and blacks to her transition leadership after being stung by criticism that her first appointments lacked diversity. She added: Howard Lee, chairman of the state school board and...

District 25 challengers may face Helen Sears

As the dust settles in the aftermath of the City Council’s vote to extend term limits, aspiring candidates in the 25th Council District are struggling to adapt to a political future that now includes incumbent Helen Sears...

Conservatives to comb Whitehall budgets for saving possibilities

Every member of the Conservative shadow Cabinet will spend the next few months carefully studying Whitehall budgets to identify where savings can be made under David Cameron's plans to cut the growth in public spending.

New York's historic elevated train line becomes a park

From the tracks of the High Line – the derelict elevated railway on New York's Lower West Side currently being transformed into a mile-and-a-half-long "park in the sky" – this most bustling of cities seems suddenly quiet and...

Official: NYC mayor can't rescind tax rebate alone

New York City homeowners may be getting this year's $400 property tax rebate check after all. The city's top budget official says Mayor Michael Bloomberg would need to get City Council approval to cancel the popular rebate.

Transition: Progress on Bill's vetting?

Per the transition office, Obama and Biden hold private meetings in Chicago today and have no public events. Speculation over Hillary Clinton becoming Obama’s secretary of state continues to dominate the transition chatter. The...

Hilary Looks More Likely, Lieberman Keeps Leadership Post

Jake Tapper reports that Hillary Clinton's appointment as secretary of state is almost a sure thing. [ABC] Marc Ambinder marvels at the Obama team's strict no-leak protocol, writing, "[I]t has less to do with information...

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