“What we know about elections”, Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, October 29, 2010 So what will happen on Tuesday? Will Republicans sail across America on a wave of Tea Party passion and Obama fatigue? Or will Democrats mount a final weekend counteroffensive, reminding voters that economic frustration is no reason to revive failed policies of the…
Details“In guv race, dumber, uglier talk “, Newsday, September 26, 2010 It happened at week’s end. Andrew Cuomo and Carl Paladino actually agreed on something. The two main candidates for governor cut through their mutual animosity long enough to back Gov. David Paterson’s state-worker layoff plan. Please, don’t get used to all this comity. The two…
Details“Andrew attacks”, Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, September 24, 2010 Nothing focuses a front-runner’s mind like a suddenly tightening poll. A day after Carl Paladino snuck within six points of Andrew Cuomo in the Quinnipiac survey of the governor’s race, the Democratic attorney general leapt immediately onto the attack. His first shot? A negative TV ad…
Details“Henican:Trees weapons of mass destruction?” , Newsday, September 19, 2010 The thunder and the lightning deliver all the drama. But it’s the trees that change peoples’ lives. We learned that again on Thursday as a freak storm blew across Queens and Long Island, leaving fallen trees everywhere. No, we’re never more than a downed tree away…
Details“The ‘Crazy Carl factor”, Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, September 17, 2010 The “degenerative idiot” is backing the “racist, homophobic…misogynist.” That’s what passes for bipartisanship in this year’s governor’s race. Party hardly matters anymore. Since Buffalo rich guy Carl Paladino came out to play, everybody’s been trashing everybody else. “Degenerative idiot” is the charming phrase former…
Details“Anniversary now an insincere publicity circus”, Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, September 10, 2010 I’ve begun to dread these 9/11 anniversaries. Do they really have to come every year? It isn’t just the innocence that was lost that day. That will never be recaptured. It isn’t even the lives that were lost. We have far better…
Details“Hyping storms is really risky business” , Newsday, September 5, 2010 This danger, of course, is getting too complacent. No, not from the holiday. Complacency is what these three-day weekends are about — especially this one, heralding, as it does, the de-facto end of summer, even with all this rain. The danger comes from Exaggerated Earl,…
Details“LIRR’s command upgrade will make ‘rail’ difference” , Newsday, August 29, 2010 How ’bout this for Command No. 1 at the LIRR’s new state-of-the-art Command and Control Center? Don’t. Catch. Fire. Unplanned conflagrations like the one that knocked out a 1913 switching room at Jamaica station can be truly catastrophic. Nearly a week after Monday’s cable…
Details“Jobs are coming back ” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, August 23, 2010 It’s the perfect good-news/bad-news story for today’s recessionary times. The jobs are coming back to Long Island – just not the paychecks. For the fourth straight month, private-sector employment is up on Long Island from twelve months earlier – 8,600 new jobs this time.…
Details“Sacred Ground: Who Decides?” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, August 20, 2010 One day – not too soon, I hope – I will die. And when that tragic moment arrives, those who love me will be saddened. Then a nice person in rubber gloves will come along and squirt 409 spray on my desk. An hour…
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