Chris Christie’s Gambit To Put Himself Right of the 2016 FieldNational Journal“Man,” one Republican walked away beaming after shaking Christie’s hand in Nashua, “Chris Christie’s got agreat grip.” Still, Christie faces headwinds back home as he tries to make inroads in New Hampshire. There have been reports that indictments loom …Jeb Bush on Chris Christie: […]
NYC’s Weekend Shootings: 19 Wounded, 1 KilledNBC New YorkAt least 20 people have been shot — one fatally — in New York City this weekend in 15 separate incidents, officials said Sunday. The most recent shooting occurred at about 7 p.m. Sunday, when a man was fatally shot during a dispute with two others on […]
Chris Christie should back off on ColoradoThe Denver PostChris Christie seems to have evolved from being a potentially formidable presidential candidate when his prospects were first mentioned a few years ago to a vanity candidate today. The only reason for the New Jersey governor to run for the Republican …Christie: ‘We don’t know’ whether Obama […]
Oakland Raiders Helped Fund Carson LA NFL Stadium Video Here is proof that the Oakland Raiders are clearly playing the City of Oakland and Oaklanders. The Silver and Black are clearly identified as a major funder of the Carson Stadium video that has been played on television and serves as the vision piece for the proposal. So where is the Coliseum City video paid for by the Raiders? Raiders President Marc Badain have the new Mayor of Carson a Raiders lapel pin. Did Badain give one to Mayor Schaaf? Time for truth from The Raiders.
Miami Marlins at New York Mets game previewFOXSports.comHarvey (2-0, 2.25 ERA) wasn’t nearly as sharp in his first start in New York since his surgery in 2013 as he was in his season debut but gave the Mets enough for a 6-5 win over Philadelphia on Tuesday. The right-hander struck out eight while yielding …Impressive […]
Rhona Mitra and John Pyper Ferguson Talk "The Last Ship" At WonderCon 2015 Rhona Mitra and John Pyper Ferguson play Dr. Rachel Scott and Tex, respectively. They're two of the stars of TNT's "The Last Ship", which, in its first year 2014, was the number one hit show on cable television, according to TNT. I have to confess my own love for "The Last Ship", which is kind of a cross between "Star Trek" and "The Caine Mutiny", and "The Andromeda Strain." The second season starts June 2015. "The Last Ship" is the story of a US Aircraft Carrier at sea which learns that a worldwide pandemic has rapidly wiped out 80 percent of the Earth's human population. Dr. Rachel Scott discovers the cure, which one would think makes lives easier. Before I continue, I have to say that Rhona Mitra is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen in my life. She has a presence that's intoxicating, and it's something that's kind of covered up on television by her character. In person, she's just plain nuclear hot, and I was not prepared for her aura. I'm serious. John Pyper Ferguson is one of the nicest people I have interviewed at WonderCon or Comic Con, or The Oscars. He's not caught up in being a star and is very approachable and engaging. Now, to the interview. The talk was mostly about the crazy romance that exists between Rachal and Tex. But given Rachel's relationship with Commander Chandler, their also seems to be a window for a love triangle to develop. Ms. Mitra didn't downplay that chance, but reminded us the mission at hand is to save the World. "They (Rachel and Tex) have a level of professionalism that's understood..", she says. Does either Rhona or John have a plan for the apocalypse? For her part, Rhona says she's going to Chile, and we can join her. I'm there! Visit our blog Zennie62.com here: http://ift.tt/1d6iMwr
Violent Night: 12 People Wounded In Separate NYC ShootingsCBS LocalNEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — More than a dozen people were shot or stabbed in separate incidents across New York City overnight, police said. Of the shootings, eight people were wounded in the Bronx, three in Brooklyn and one in Manhattan, CBS2’s … …read more From:: New […]
Chris Christie should retire that retirement plan; it equals the biggest tax …NJ.comRight after Chris Christie announced his 12-point plan to reform Social Security and Medicare last week, I got an email from someone who would benefit greatly from the plan. That’s not because Amanda Lott is a retiree. It’s because she’s a financial …Two […]
Weather: Windy Sunday in Central New York with rain moving into regionSyracuse.comSYRACUSE, N.Y. — Sunday will start off with decent weather, but things will get cold and rainy as Central New York heads into the new week. Our weather Sunday will start off dry and a bit cool thanks to a high pressure system the […]
John Russo Last Interview As Alameda City Manager I've known John Russo since 1990, and have watched him grow and change from activist lawyer, to Oakland Councilmember, then the city's first elected attorney, then Alameda's first city manager that lasted more than one year. I've interviewed him so many times on video I've lost count, and still have the only set of long-playing YouTube vids in media – our average talk is generally 20 minutes long. This video interview is the last one I will do with John as Alameda City Manager and because he's leaving to work for the City of Riverside, California in the same capacity. This move is completely John: as long as he's been my friend, Mr. Russo has always put his family first. It didn't matter if it was his mother, or his brother Al in New York, or his wife (present and past), and his boys Sam and Gabe, and his step-children. This decision to leave the Bay Area and end a 25-year-long relationship was one he made with his wife Melissa. “We've always intended to move to Southern California,” Russo remarked to me. But desire is one thing: opportunity quite another. Russo made a promise to remain as Alameda's City Manager if his boss and friend Marie Gilmore won reelection in 2014; that didn't happen. When it became clear Gilmore wasn't going to win the razor-thin vote count, Russo started to focus on following up on a call he received from a friend in Riverside who told him that that city's manager job was open. Of course, landing a job is another story, but if there's one thing I can say about John Russo, it's that he has effectively established a long-list of contacts around the State of California, and beyond. Thus, it's more than likely he was well-known to the people who interviewed him before he walked into the door. He got the gig. The job reportedly pays him $80,000 more than his Alameda salary, which was $215,000, but the reportedly $290,000 level could go to as high as $400,000, as Russo has an incentive package built in to his contract. And why not? The inland city is almost as large as Oakland in population, and gives him a great platform to make a difference; it's only fair, he thinks, that he's compensated for reaching the unnamed goals established. The question remains: did Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf reach out to Russo? “No.” He said. And Russo said little more than that. As much as he's loved by many in Oakland (and George Zimmer, the Founder and President of The Men's Wherehouse said to me “We've got to find some way to keep John in Oakland”) it's clear to me he's done with the City of Oakland. It's changed in a way that has scared off many talented public officials who worked in it, and some would even say Oakland is becoming as dyfunctional as Berkeley is known to be, only larger. In our talk, John and I focused on what he called the “unholy alliance between the left and the right,” where the right says about people (of color) in a neighborhood like Elmhurst “look at those people. They have bad values.” and the left, or what I called in the video “the white left” points to the same people who are black and Latino. It's that dynamic, and Oakland's intense focus on it, that prevents it from uniting to do more enterprising things, like building a stadium to retain the Raiders in Oakland, or landing a Super Bowl, but I digress. Whether Mayor Schaaf can change that or not remains to be seen, as it's still the honeymoon season for her – and the topic of another video-blog. But Russo is gone, and leaves behind a laundry list of accomplishments. While I have my favorites, like working out the contractual issues with the Chris Cohan-owned Golden State Warriors, and cleaning up Lakeshore Avenue's business district, John's favorite is his work in establishing the Neighborhood Law Corps. The idea behind the NLC is kind of like a cross between The Peace Corps and a law internship. Basically, the NLC acted as legal representatives for the neighborhood, helping residents solve problems from removal of crack houses, to identification of slum lords. It's the one legacy of Russo's tenure as the city's first elected and two-time-reelected lawyer that remains to this day. But the most controversial move Russo made was in establishing the Oakland Civil Gang Injunction process, and used it to target the North Side Oakland Gang Members, saying the street gang has "terrorized our community, intimidated witnesses and recruited children to their criminal enterprise." The injunction included a 100-block safety zone, and prohibited gang members from associating with each other and possessing guns within the area. It was good idea – certainly more than was done by its critics. John remains passionate about the program. Stay tuned. Visit our blog Zennie62.com here: http://ift.tt/1d6iMwr
Synthetic Pot Sends Scores to New York HospitalsWall Street JournalNEW YORK—Synthetic marijuana has sent 160 people to hospitals in New York state in a little over a week, a spike that prompted authorities to warn Friday that the drug is dangerous and illegal. Over 120 emergency-room visits since April 8 linked to …Rash of hospitalizations […]
Review: A New Whitney Lets New York City Pour InNew York TimesFrom the west, along the Hudson River, it looks ungainly and a little odd, vaguely nautical, bulging where the shoreline jogs, a ship on blocks perhaps, alluding to one of New York’s bedrock industries from long ago. It’s a glittery emblem of new urban […]
