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Dolman: Remembering Ed Koch as a mayor who convinced New York to be great again
Photo credit: Craig Ruttle
As the honor guard bore Ed Koch’s casket out of Temple Emanu-El onto Fifth Avenue this morning, the organist broke into “New York, New York” and the assembled mourners—several thousand strong—broke into sustained applause.
It was a moving moment, the perfect gesture for a man who was irascible, irreverent, impossible, vindictive, passionate, egotistical, witty, wise—and above all joyful—throughout...
Read more »Cartoon: Groundhog day
Mark Wilson is a New York political cartoonist and illustrator who lives in the Adirondacks. He publishes under the pen name Marquil.
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McKinstry: Westchester Democrats drop one lawsuit against Rob Astorino, four more to go
Photo credit: Faye Murman
For anyone keeping score, Democrats on the Westchester Board of Legislators recently dropped one of their lawsuits against Republican County Executive Rob Astorino.
The suit in question involved day care, and Democrats say that after the legislature approved this year’s budget – the $1.7 billion plan signed off by seven Republicans and two Democrats with a new 27 percent parental contribution...
Read more »Cartoon: Ed Koch at the pearly gates
Mark Wilson is a New York political cartoonist and illustrator who lives in the Adirondacks. He publishes under the pen name Marquil.
MORE CARTOONS: Mark Wilson's cartoon gallery
Dolman: Ed Koch was the ultimate New Yorker
Photo credit: AP, 2010
Mayor Edward Irving Koch, who reigned over New York City from 1978 though 1989, was as irrepressible as the town he led. He was intensely proud of his role in guiding the city away from bankruptcy in the 1970s and for starting a system of merit selection for city judges. He had a right to be.
Without his driven, muscular leadership, New York might never have turned around its rapid deterioration...
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