“Henican: Holding pattern on E. Hampton copter flight plans” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, August 7, 2010 It’s as key to Hamptons-weekend extravagance as Diva vodka martinis and Lamborghini golf carts: The Friday-afternoon helicopter ride east. Wasting half the cocktail hour in LIE backups? Getting stuck on Route 27 behind a pokey landscaper’s truck? Only a schlub…
Details“Mike’s Gutsy Defense of Mosque” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, August 6, 2010 The predictable bashing has begun. Mike Bloomberg, defender of religious freedom, is getting plenty of grief for his principled support of what is incorrectly known as the “Ground Zero mosque.” Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, the Wall Street Journal editorial board – their throaty…
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“Steve Levy gives up the ghost” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, August 1, 2010 Steve Levy is lucky he has such high self-esteem. Otherwise, he’d be feeling pretty bummed this weekend. Nothing is turning out like the Suffolk County executive planned. State Republican leaders were certain to pick him as their inside candidate for governor. Only they…
Details“Bams ‘View’ Really Matters” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, July 30, 2010 He knows Lindsay Lohan’s a jailbird. He’s chagrined at Mel Gibson’s anger mismanagement. So how could Barack Obama be so embarrassingly clueless about a national figure as important as Snooki? Appearing on “The View,” the pop-savvy president drew an uncharacteristic blank at the mention…
Details“School closure better prompt plain talk in Huntington Station” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, July 25, 2010 No one is saying the Jack Abrams School wasn’t educating its students. No one is claiming the teaching was shoddy, the building was crumbling or the discipline was lax. The Huntington School Board voted 4-3 on Monday to shut down…
Details“Slippery Blogger has No Rules” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, July 16, 2010 Here in the Believable Media, we don’t have very many rules. No sleeping with the sources. No taking money from the politicians and flacks. And no twisting peoples’ words around when you edit their quotes. I can’t comment on Andrew Breitbart’s funding practices…
Details“Post-Racial? Not Really ” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, July 16, 2010 The NAACP says the Tea Party crowd needs to expel its not-so-hidden racists. The New Black Panther Party is suddenly Outrage Number One on talking-head TV. And with the fresh controversy in Arizona, the debate over illegal immigration is turning personal again, focused on…
Details“In face of rising office vacancies, rents stay the course”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, July 11, 2010 No one said this recovery was going to be easy. And now look: Economic forecasters suddenly have something else to worry about – Long Island’s suburban office parks. Just as residential real estate was showing glimmers of encouragement, just…
Details“They’re not the spies of old” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, July 9, 2010 OK, here’s the deal I would have struck: We send the Russians their 10 spies back. They send us imprisoned scientist Igor Sutyagin—plus nine Russian gymnasts. You can’t say we don’t need the help at the 2012 Summer Games! After their guilty…
Details“Arizona’s immigration fight seems far away from LI”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, July 4, 2010 Ready for another hot-blooded round of immigration debate? Ready or not, here it comes. Barack Obama’s big speech was Thursday. And any moment now, the Justice Department will be filing suit against the state of Arizona, contending that the toughest-in-America immigration…
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