Top Stories of 2009
As 2009 draws to a close, we thought we’d paw through our archives to dig up some of the more interesting stories that we covered during the past 12 months. From swine flu to kindergarten wait lists to a tense race for Manhattan District Attorney, there was rarely a dull moment in Manhattan, especially on the East Side. Below are our highlights, in no particular order. Read more
QUITTERS NEVER WIN
Caroline’s a quitter, and I’m quite incensed.
Not because I thought she was the best choice, but because out of nowhere she threw her hat in the ring and was henceforth treated like a butterfly emerging from her chrysalis. Caroline, who never made a show of herself, was going public. People took her seriously enough to invest emotionally in an opinion as to whether or not she should get the Senate job, debated it, held press conferences about it, and when it came to her competitors, started swigging Mylanta straight from the bottle over it.
CAROLINE: JUST LIKE US?
Carolyn. Caroline. Carolyn. Caroline.(I feel like David Letterman at the Oscars: Uma. Oprah. Uma. Oprah.)
Carolyn Maloney is just one of a slew of career politicians who are now up against Caroline Kennedy for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. And if I were Carolyn & Co., I would be so not happy.
ANOTHER ENDORSEMENT FOR MALONEY
Though Caroline Kennedy is wracking up political and celebrity endorsements for her public relations campaign for Senate, Rep. Carolyn Maloney is close behind. Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times columnist, suggested on his blog that Gov. David Paterson choose Maloney as Sen. Hillary Clinton’s replacement. “If Governor Paterson wants to replace Hillary Clinton with another woman,” Kristof wrote on Dec. 17, “how about Carolyn rather than Caroline?”
AN OBVIOUS CHOICE FOR SENATE
There are days when political things seem so obvious. From the day Hillary Clinton announced that she would accept Barack Obama’s invitation to be Secretary of State, I have believed that the obvious candidate to take her place would be Caroline Kennedy. She is a big-time New Yorker, her name is recognizable around the world, she is an expert on things educational and she is the daughter of the martyred John F. Kennedy, as well as the niece of Ted Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. She’s Jackie’s daughter; and no one needs to ask, “Which Jackie?” She is smart, thoughtful, articulate and an answer to Gov. David Paterson’s dilemma. He needs a Senator who supersedes ethnic and geographic rivalries, who can raise money and win as a candidate in her own right in the same year that he is running Read more
