The countdown ends, the pods open and the 2013 Mayoral Hunger Games begin!! We know the leading contenders want to be mayor. But if it came to a gladiatorial death-match to satisfy New Yorkers’ depraved appetite for political blood, who would survive?City Council speaker Christine Quinn,…
March 26, 2012
The New York World: The 2013 NYC Mayoral Election Hunger Games
January 30, 2012
Research notes: A completely arbitrary list of takeaways from two unconferences
This past weekend, I attended Spark Camp: Data, an unconference in Austin focused on using data to tell stories, whatever they may be. A month before, I was at News Foo, an unconference at Arizona State University that brings technologists and journalists together to talk about … whatever they…
December 21, 2011
"Robinson is walking away with just under $15 million exclusive of the value of the stock options she accumulated over her tenure with the company."
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Robinson exit to cost New York Times over $15 million | Reuters
Something makes me suspect those options aren’t going to be worth a huge amount.
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December 1, 2011
Boycott and Lawsuit: Restaurant Workers Challenging the Hidden Rules
Listen to audio interview here.
“Boy-cott Sai-gon Grill… Boy-cott Sai-gon Grill…”
It’s a recent Sunday night. Seven people are gathered outside Saigon Grill, a Vietnamese restaurant on the Upper West Side. They are handing out yellow flyers that read, “Sweatshops Out of Our Community- Boycott Domino’s Pizza and Saigon Grill” in English and Spanish; their posters, in both English and Korean, carry the same message.
These protesters are members of the Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association, and some are former employees of Saigon Grill. Since November 2010, CSWA has been organizing such protests against Saigon Grill from Wednesday to Sunday, twice a day, three hours each time.
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Protesters gathered outside Saigon Grill.
They are members from the Chinese Stuff and Workers’ Association.
They have been protesting since Nov 2010.
One of the protesters, Ivan Lin, never worked at Saigon Grill, but joined the protest after he got laid off in December 2010 when his former employer, Peter Yeung, owner of Century Buffet in Clifton, N.J., closed that restaurant. The closing of Century Buffet came after Mr. Lin and other employees filed complaints and lawsuits against the restaurant owner regarding wages and working hours.
“The working conditions are really bad nowadays, and I want to make a difference,” said Lin in Chinese. He came to the U.S. after he graduated from high school at the age of 18. Originally from Fujian Province, Lin, who has been in the U.S. for 15 years, hasn’t had formal language education in English. “I can only speak restaurant English,” said Lin, 33.
November 30, 2011
rafat.org: My Encounter With Glenn Beck
There are only a few times in life you stand in front of pure evil, eye-to-eye, and confront the bully who lobs bombs that tears away at the fabric of our civilized existence. Today was that day for me.
At Business Insider’s excellent Ignition conference today, one of the featured speakers was…
November 20, 2011
Roller Derby’s Niche Businesses Keep on Rolling
by Sara MorrisonNicole “Bonnie Thunders” Williams and Danielle “OMG WTF” Flowers work behind the counter at Five Stride Skate Shop, the Brooklyn store they co-own. (photo: Sara Morrison)Six days a week, Nicole Williams, 28, and Danielle Flowers, 32, ride their bikes from the apartment they share to Brooklyn’s Five Stride Skate Shop, the business they co-own. Here, they are best known to their customers by different names and for their activities on a different set of wheels: roller skates. As Bonnie Thunders and OMG WTF, respectively, Williams and Flowers are two of the best skaters in the Gotham Girls Roller Derby league, and Five Stride specializes in selling to roller derby players like them.
November 10, 2011
After 18 months of production, our promo reel is now live! Next up: the feature-length film…
Synopsis: After 30 years, America thinks the fight against HIV/AIDS is over. But it flares regularly and quietly across the American South, where infection rates are 50% higher than in other parts of the country. Facing a broken health system and a culture of denial, HIV-positive Southerners must cobble together their own solutions to survive.
This documentary follows the lives of four Southerners: A black, gay man tries to escape the suffocating judgement of the Mississippi Delta; two best friends in Louisiana kickstart an empowerment movement; and an Alabama activist takes her campaign on the road. Intermixed in these main story lines are six 1- to 3-minute stylized mini-stories, or intersticials, that explore larger political and social themes bubbling across the rural South.
November 2, 2011
November 2, 2011
Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Gov. Rick Perry writing to Dept. of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, asking for “assistance in breaking through bureaucratic obstacles” obstructing a wind energy project in Texas.
October 22, 2011
NY Health Biz: New combo drug sweetens the pill for diabetics
Photo courtesy of Flickr CreativeCommons/arbyreed
A new pill received the green light by the Food and Drug Administration Friday and will soon be on the market: Juvisync will be the first combination pill to simultaneously treat Type 2 Diabetes and high cholesterol.
The pill, created by…
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