U.S. Airways has made an offer to buy Delta Airways. This is huge.
Betsy Gotbaum has finally found an issue worthy of her attention as Public Advocate: The cell phone ban in public schools. As a reminder, a blackout in Queens that left 100,000 without power for nine elicited not a peep from her office; she has yet to make a public statement about any development, from Atlantic Yards on down; she heard about Gitmo on the Hudson, the lockup during the RNC, from newspaper reports; the list goes on. Here's a thought: email her at schoolcellphoneban@pubadvocate.nyc.gov ; that's an address that is apparently taken seriously. Tell her what else she's missing.
In The New York Times freshly re-elected Joe Lieberman, "Independent Democrat" of Connecticut, is being welcomed back with hugs, perhaps because he has the Senate Democratic majority by the balls.
The Village Voice continues the drip, drip, drip of coverage of the State Senate Democrats' self-inflicted debacle in this election cycle:
A tribute to the genius of computerized reapportionment, the GOP senate victory was also a commentary on the calamity of Democratic strategy and resolve, even in a year of historic opportunity. Little of the multimillions spent by the statewide Democratic players trickled down to the troops in the senate trenches, and the compromises that local party leaders have made with their GOP counterparts over the years came back at prime time to haunt the senate effort.
The Washington Post: spending bills and a free-trade deal with Vietnam stall in the Congress. Even in defeat, republicans just can't do their jobs.
Pondering John Murtha: Taegan Goddard says it's all sewn up; Ruth Marcus in The Washington Post says he's 'unfit to be Majority Leader'. Let's be honest, no matter which way it goes, this is not an auspicious start; better get ironclad ethics reform passed pronto.
Lastly, The Daily News has a Rudy-gasm - here and here and here.
