NY1 Exclusive: More Than 600 Hours Blacked Out Of Speaker Quinn's 2011 Schedule To view our videos, you need toenable JavaScript. Learn how.install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. NY1 obtained a copy of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's 2011 schedule, of which 600 hours are blacked out. NY1's Courtney Gross filed the following report. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's schedule for 2011 is full of holes. NY1 received Council Speaker Christine Quinn's schedules through a Freedom of Information Law request. More than 600 hours were blacked out. Hours council officials say include events that if disclosed would be an unwarranted invasion of the speaker's personal privacy.They could be instances when she goes to spinning class ... Continue reading →
It's been a good week for Mitt Romney. The polls are up, he's just off a two-day swing through Connecticut and New York, where he hauled in big donors and hard money, and he swept the GOP primaries in Kentucky and Arkansas. On Tuesday Texas will put him over the top and make him, formally and officially, the Republican nominee for president. Not everything worked—his big education speech Wednesday was wan and pallid—but he's having a moment. In a telephone interview, he reflected on the campaign, tracing his candidacy's upward momentum to an increased sense among voters that the country is on the wrong path and, perhaps, a growing sense that he's proved himself: "I can tell you that we went through those 37 or ... Continue reading →