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A bigger Comcast isn’t better for consumers
Proposed buyout of Time Warner Cable will change the competitive landscape The moment Comcast, the nation's biggest cable company, announced it would buy Time Warner Cable, the second largest, an army of lawyers and PR operatives fanned out to tell cable subscribers...
Scandals along the Hudson
Both Chris Christie and Eliot Spitzer signaled political opponents were enemies to be punished While the nation follows the unfolding Chris Christie scandal, one group —the executive staff that served former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer — is watching with heightened...
Constantine: Bill De Blasio/Chirlane McCray may be no bargain
New York City's next mayor, Bill de Blasio, and his wife, Chirlane McCray, deserve credit for candor. Just as when Bill Clinton told the nation in 1992 it would "get two for the price of one," de Blasio and McCray have openly declared their interchangeability. In an...
Commentary: Timing is everything, even in elections
Looking to make a political comeback, Eliot Spitzer chose the wrong race and the wrong time On Sept. 10, Eliot Spitzer, one of the most powerful state attorney generals in memory, whose name once frequently came up when talk turned to potential presidents, lost the...
How rich is too rich?
America's economic divide grows at an alarming pace The advice that "you can never be too rich or too thin" attributed to Wallis Warfield Simpson, the late Duchess of Windsor, for whose love King Edward VIII gave up his throne, seems to resonate with some very wealthy...
Voters need to return fire against NRA
I am neither happy nor proud that my predictions and desires made in this newspaper on June 7, 2012, about the outcome of the prosecution of George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin were substantially realized. In my commentary, "Stand your ground needs to go," I...
