Katharine Jose
Articles by Katharine Jose
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Richardson for Commerce, Brooklyn Jail Won't Re-Open
Bill Richardson is reportedly a top contender for commerce secretary. [WP] read more »
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Elsewhere: New Tales of Hillary, Rangel Stays In
Continuing the incredibly confusing sequence of events in the Hillary-as-S.oS. story, CNN is now reporting that she's just one of a couple of top candidates. read more »
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Pritzker Not for Commerce Secy., Espada's Missing Steps
Vetting has complicated heiress Penny Pritzker's chance of becoming Obama's commerce secretary. [WP] read more »
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Lieberman Endures, May Thrive
The Democrats are mostly over Joe Lieberman's transgressions, writes Kornacki, and he'll probably run as a Democrat again in 2012. read more »
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Elsewhere: Paterson on Appointment, Day Care Funding Cuts
David Paterson told a reporter he would not feel obligated to appoint a woman to Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, should she leave it. read more »
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Daschle for H.H.S., LICH Can't Close Wing, Congressman Lopez?
Adding insult to injury for New Yorkers on the right, Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long closed his Bay Ridge liquor store. [Brooklyn Paper] read more »
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In the Observer: What Hillary Could Do at State, What the Guardian Didn't Know, The State of the Manhattan Institute
Jason Horowitz reports that Democratic foreign policy experts think there's a simple reason Barack Obama might want Hillary Clinton as secretary of state: because she'd be good at it. read more »
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Elsewhere: M.T.A.'s 'Deep Trouble,' Obama's A.G., Felder's Plastic Bags
In Albany, Tom Golisano says he may put money towards a campaign in favor of David Paterson's spending cuts. read more »
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Hillary Looks More Likely, Lieberman Keeps Leadership Post
Jake Tapper reports that Hillary Clinton's appointment as secretary of state is almost a sure thing. [ABC] read more »
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Why Hillary Might Not Want the Job
Steve Kornacki writes that the few former secretaries of state have gone on to run for president "are notable for their futility." read more »
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Elsewhere: An Official Recession, A Council Vote on Rebate?
In a quarterly survey of economists, "participants were 'unanimous' in describing the U.S. economy as being either in a recession or on the brink of one. Most said the recession had begun in April and would last 14 months." read more »
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Betting on Velazquez, Washington Drama
Bloggers on both sides of the political spectrum think Liz is probably right in proposing Nydia Velazquez as the most likely replacement for Hillary Clinton. [Buffalo Bean and Albany Project] read more »
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Weekend in Review: Hillary's Potential Appointment, Hillary's Potential Replacement, Praise for Paterson's Cuts
According to Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton would be a great secretary of state. read more »
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Events for November 15-17, 2008
SATURDAY
8:30 a.m. City Comptroller Bill Thompson will be among the speakers at Democratic State Senate Leader Malcolm Smith's first Annual Education Conference, held at the Far Rockaway Community Church of Nazarene, 1414 Central Avenue, in Far Rockaway, Queens. read more »
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Elsewhere: S.O.S. Hillary, Scrambling for McMahon's Seat
Nico Pitney reports that Hillary Clinton was actually offered the secretary of state post, and she wanted time to think about it. read more »
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Alesi Rumors, Clinton Speculation
An upstate blogger says the rumor is that Republican State Senator Jim Alesi may go Democrat. [Mustard Street via Monroe Rising] read more »
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Elsewhere: Bloomberg Gets His Projects, Gentile's Rebate Lawsuit
The City Council approved both the plan for redeveloping Willets Point, and the plan for redeveloping Hunter's Point South: Eliot Brown has details read more »
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Some Businesses Will Stay in Willets Point
Eliot Brown reports that the deal over redeveloping Willets Point is a little more complicated than it looked yesterday. read more »
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Smith's Upstate Promise, Losing Faith in Paulson
"Senate Democrats are committed to upstate," writes Malcolm Smith in an op-ed. [Buffalo News]
Robert Harding does not believe in the upstate-downstate thing. [TAP] read more »
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How the G.O.P.'s Southern Strategy Plays Elsewhere
Kornacki suggests that the G.O.P.'s best bet is to go after Midwestern voters. read more »
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Elsewhere: The Inevitable End to Willets Point, Paterson Cuts Aid to City
Michael Bloomberg got what he wanted on Willets Point, reports Eliot Brown, who writes, "Apparently, all land use fights do, in fact, have the same conclusion." read more »
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City Hall Strikes Deal on Willets Point
Eliot Brown reports that the Bloomberg administration, Councilman Hiram Monserrate and ACORN have agreed to 35 percent affordable housing in the new Willets Point development, which resolves a major sticking point for some of the opposition. read more »
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Willets May Pass, Obama Considers Vilsack
The most vocal opponent of the plan for Willets Point, Hiram Monserrate, says he'll probably vote in favor tomorrow. [Iron Triangle Tracker] read more »
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In the Observer: Schumer on His Future, State Schemes With Federal Funds, the Facebook Adminstration
Meeting with Jason Horowitz, Chuck Schumer kicks his shoes off, puts his feet up and says of the possibility that he might eventually become majority leader, “From my own point of view, my own Chuck Schumer point of view, I want Harry to stay as long as possible." read more »
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One Last Thing About Electability
Barack Obama didn't prove Hillary Clinton wrong just by getting elected, but also because of how he did it, writes Kornacki. read more »
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Elsewhere: Heat for Mondello, Obama's Ethics Rules
Hundreds turned out to see David Paterson in Syracuse.
Westchester County passed a ban on idling vehicles. read more »
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Elsewhere: Kuhl's Loss, Klein's Future
A Rochester blogger thinks Randy Kuhl lost because he eschewed town halls.
Spitzer-toppling U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia is expected to step down. read more »
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M.T.A. Crisis, Council Income
“The word draconian is not inappropriate,” said M.T.A. chief Elliot Sanders describing the authority's fiscal problems, and potential solutions. [City Room] read more »
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Events for Monday, November 10, 2008
:30 a.m. M.T.A. Finance Committee holds a special meeting to discuss the agency's enormous fiscal problems. At 347 Madison Avenue on the fifth floor.
Noon. Residents of the Lower East Side protest the lack of translation at hearings related to the area's rezoning plan. At 59 Hester Street. read more »
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Weekend in Review: Demands on Obama, Monserrate Makes a Deal
After all that, voter turnout actually wasn't much more than in 2004.
Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's future chief of staff, emphasized pragmatism in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. read more »
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Elsewhere: Obama's First Press Conference, Paterson's Calculator
The new dog was a big issue in Barack Obama's first press conference since the election.
It also showed just how disciplined the president-elect is, writes Joe Klein. read more »
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Leading in Recount, Padavan Makes His Attacks
State Senator Frank Padavan was first elected to office 35 years ago, and his Republican conference has been in the majority for nearly the entire time. read more »
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Elsewhere: Skelos Goes South, Gore Hounds Obama
Irene Liu has a useful breakdown of what's realistic and what's at stake with the "group of four" Democratic State Senators threatening to vote with Republicans.
Dean Skelos is in Puerto Rico to see one of them. read more »
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What Emanuel Means to Obama, DiNapoli's Pick for R.C.U.
Rahm Emanuel will be Barack Obama's chief of staff, "a signal that Obama is eager to work with Congress and plans a swift launch of an aggressive agenda," writes Ben. [Politico] read more »
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G.O.P's 2012 Bunch
Steve Kornacki writes that the Republicans best bet right now is Mitt Romney, in part because Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee could end up splitting support. read more »
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Events for Thursday, November 6, 2008
10 a.m. Hispanic business leaders in Queens urge people to urge the City Council to vote in favor of Willets Point redevelopment. On the second floor of 40-03 National Street, Queens.
10:30 a.m. M.T.A. officials and Kerry Kenned brief members of the media on the naming of the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge. At M.T.A. headquarters, 347 Madison Avenue, in the fifth floor board room. read more »
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This Was Chicago
Jason Horowitz reports on weird chicken stew, reporters that wrote like Obama would win, and the living room of Bill Ayers, which looks like it came out of West Elm. read more »
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Kennedy at the E.P.A., Golisano's Small Impact
Barack Obama may put Robert Kennedy, Jr. in charge of the E.P.A. and Colin Powell in charge of the Department of Education. [Politico] read more »
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Decisive, But Might Have Been a Bigger Landslide
Kornacki says "it’s probably worth noting just how close John McCain came to engineering an Election Day miracle." read more »
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Weiner Bails on State Democrats, Malcolm Smith Is Cautious
At the Sheridan in midtown, the Democratic Minority Leader told Eliot Brown he hopes to know the future of the State Senate by 11 p.m. read more »
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For Obama, But Against Rangel in Harlem
But unlike most, Greene went through the effort of covering Rangel's image with a p read more »
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Elsewhere: Early Exit Polls, Major Cuts From Bloomberg
Preliminary exit poll data reports that "[c]hange voters made up 35% of the electorate; 30% wanted someone who shared their values. "
Josh Marshall reminds: early exit polling was wildly off in 2004. read more »
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Snapshot From Chicago
Brian Williams fan and New York-based lawyer Jasmine Moy, currently volunteering for Obama in Chicago, sends this photo from inside headquarters.
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The Scene at the Celebrity Polling Station
According to Austen Scarlett, previously of Project Runway, who was casting his ballot at an N.Y.U. dorm, Cindy McCain "has this evil queen beauty about her," but John McCain should just stay in uniform. read more »
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Georgia's Likely Run-Off, Peggy Noonan's Wisdom, Obama's Anxious Staff
There's one congressional race in Georgia that may go to run-off, and if it does, Kornacki thinks it will look a lot like 1992, when the national parties and their prominent members had to throw their energy into winning, again. read more »
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Bloomberg Gets in Line
At a polling station on East 82nd Street there are approximately 270 people ahead of Michael Bloomberg waiting to vote.
"Can't cut the line?" one woman joked. He said he couldn't because the press was watching. Besides, the mayor went on, he has a Spanish lesson afterward. "So what's the rush?" he deadpanned.
According to one of Blooomberg's aides, one of those 270 people in line was Eliot Spitzer.
