Examiner (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)Members of the Kennedy family, friends, and officials stand for the national anthem during a ceremony to mark the official renaming of the Triborough Bridge to the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008.
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Photograph of the Citigroup building in Long Island City, seen beyond a cemetery in Queens by Seth Wenig/AP Crain's says that Citigroup's announced 52,000-employee reduction is the "second-largest job cut ever undertaken by any company ." (The largest one is from 1993, when IBM let go of 60,000.) Citigroup's job cuts--which many don't think are enough given its current condition --are...
Dependable Renegade (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
AP/Seth Wenig Seriously, how hard is it to wink?
Mock, Paper, Scissors (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig) …farts, and dithers: President Chimpy McStagger asserted Thursday that the global financial crisis is “not a failure of the free market” and urged world leaders to adopt modest financial reforms that stop short of the tighter regulations Europeans favor. “Our aim should not be more government. It should be smarter government,” Chimpy said during a [...]
