The last week of July is “dog days,” a time when politics is in a calm before the inevitable September primary and November electoral storm. And so we had City Council Speaker Christine Quinn baking a rhubarb pie in the pages of the New York Times, and 22-year-old Mindy Meyer leading the news cycle. Even 
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this afternoon that workers will immediately return to work at Con Edison, which has locked out thousands of workers since the beginning of this month, to handle stormy weather that is heading towards New York City. The utility company locked out more than 8,000 workers on July 1, and has come 
Queens Jimmy Meng, who was indicted yesterday, reportedly helped Grace Meng raise campaign cash. Opponent Dan Halloran called the Board of Health a “kangaroo court.” GOP Senate candidate Juan Reyes has a spotty voting record. Brooklyn “Diva” Senate candidate Mindy Meyer is courting the endorsement of Kim Kardashian, but knows little about Andrew Cuomo. Meyer 
Former Queens Assemblyman Jimmy Meng, father of Assemblywoman Grace Meng, has been arrested for allegedly soliciting $80,000 in cash from a court defendant and promising to use the money to bribe Manhattan prosecutors between December 2011 and July 2012, U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch’s office announced this afternoon. Federal investigators found the ex-legislator did not contact 
Three weeks ago, when news of Brooklyn Republican State Sen. Marty Golden’s now-infamous “feminine presence” seminar first broke, a group almost immediately formed to “bum rush” the July 24 event at Bay Ridge Manor – and promised to bring along, “go-go Dancers” and “burlesque acts” to mock the senator. Apparently, the passage of time (and 
One of the elements fueling rumors of a comeback by Congressman Anthony Weiner is the notion that he’ll essentially be forfeiting millions of dollars by taking a pass in 2013. The scenario is laid out in this recent AP report: Weiner — who had long been vocal about his mayoral aspirations and ran for the 
Wilder Fleming filed the following report: Mayor Michael Bloomberg responded this morning to city rabbis’ threats of legal action if the city goes through with a proposal to restrict a controversial Orthodox Jewish circumcision practice. “We have an obligation to keep people alive and safe and the courts have held that up repeatedly,” Bloomberg said 
Senate Democrats released a 20-page report today on a proposed minimum wage hike, calling on Republican Senators to vote on the increase from $7.25 an hour to $8.50 in a special session. In a release accompanying the report, bill sponsor State Sen. Adriano Espaillat writes, “This report underscores just how critical it is to raise 
Via @azipaybarah, we have learned of the campaign websitefor 22-year-old Mindy Meyer, an Orthodox Jewish law student running against State Sen. Kevin Parker on the Republican and Conservative Party lines. There is only one word for this website and that word is “rad.” “It was 100 percent my idea,” Meyer said of the site, which 
2013 Mayoral Race Union money is already flooding the 2013 NYC mayoral race – a sign that labor intends to get more involved than in 2009. Hedging his bets, real estate executive Jay Kriegel bundled more that $100,000 for four of the different mayoral candidates. Brooklyn Conservative Party chairman Jerry Kassar is thrilled about all 
