“Who’s in Rudy’s Mirror?” Ellis Henican column, am/New York, p. 4,July 31, 2009
Pretty soon, Rudy Giuliani will have to look in mirror and decide who’s looking back.
Is it a used-to-be mayor of New York with a lucrative consulting business?
Or is it a pumped-up Republican leader for today, beginning another run for public office?
It’s Rudy’s choice [...]
31Jul
26Jul
“Too Boring in the Suburbs,” Ellis Henican Newsday Column, July 26, 2009
Is Long Island too boring for young adults?
Too pricey? Too isolated? Or just irredeemably uncool?
Whatever the combination of factors, Tom Suozzi had some statistics that proved the generational obvious: Long Island and young adults, what a difficult match they are.
“Eight-point-seven percent of the people [...]
24Jul
“21 Losing Its Buzz,” Ellis Henican Column, am/New York, July 24, 2009
Somewhere in America, there may be a college student who is dissuaded from drinking by Legal Age 21.
It’s a big country, you know.
But exactly 25 years after Washington turned 18-, 19- and 20-year-old drinkers into criminals, the evidence is piling up like a [...]
19Jul
“Let’s Reinvent the Process,” Ellis Henican Sunday Column, Newsday, July 19, 2009
She spoke in tones as flat as a law book. She was as difficult to ruffle as the court’s wooden bench. In day after day of direct interrogation, the nation learned barely anything.
So Sonya Sotomayor had a very successful week.
Try as they might, the [...]
17Jul
“Just Don’t Get Sick,” Ellis Henican Column, am/New York, July 17, 2009
There’s a perfect solution to America’s crisis in health care. It’s as apt for today’s insurance-choked system as it will be if Obama-care ever becomes law.
Don’t get sick.
I promise: If you never get sick, you’ll be all right.
As for the rest of us? Well, [...]
12Jul
“What’s News? Plenty!” Ellis Henican Sunday Column, Newsday, July 12, 2009
Palin’s quitting. Jackson’s gone. Espada’s partying again with Democrats.
Who says the news has no surprises left?
So much of what passes for news these days is purposely contrived – PR-created, pre-digested and focus-grouped to death. In some news cycles, it seems, the publicists are as important [...]
