Should subway stations get letter grades for cleanliness like NYC restaurants do? Several city council members think so. However, when the idea was mentioned at a budget meeting in front of MTA reps, their answer was a flat “No”. Those Read More » Continue reading →
WASHINGTON - Under a withering assault from the industry, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko is stepping down, effective upon the confirmation of his successor, according to a statement from Jaczko. The resignation follows months of bureaucratic knife-wielding by the four industry-backed members of the five-person panel. Like something out of Dumas, the passionate infighting stretched back decades. The industry effort was spearheaded by Democratic Commissioner Bill Magwood. Magwood, it turned out, had led a strikingly similar coup against his boss at the Department of Energy before taking his spot, a saga first reported by HuffPost late last year as the coup was unfolding. Magwood's ally at the time was Alex Flint, then a GOP Senate staffer who took the lead on nuclear policy. He's ... Continue reading →
The executives of Google are putting their interests in New York City ahead of their old school ties.On Monday, Larry Page, the chief executive of Google, is scheduled to announce that the company will donate space so Cornell University can have a temporary home for the applied sciences school it plans to build in the city. While the campus is under construction on Roosevelt Island, students and faculty of the new Cornell school will occupy space in Google’s massive building in the Chelsea section of Manhattan.The donation comes despite a connection between Google’s co-founders, Mr. Page and Sergey Brin, and Stanford University, which had vied with Cornell for the Roosevelt Island space. Mr. Page and Mr. Brin started the company while they were graduate students ... Continue reading →
