One contestant is a surly 46-year-old speaker who refused to give member items out of spite but just agreed to pass paid sick leave. Another is an embattled 77-year-old district attorney who is starring in his own reality show but has trouble training his prosecutors to follow the law. And a third is a back-stabbing 55-year-old newsman who earned America’s ire for forcing a rival out of her job, thus causing his ratings to drop like an anchor. Who’s… [More]

The film and television industries, which spent a whopping $7.1 billion in New York City last year, are giving the city a crucial economic boost, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Tuesday at a press conference at the Saturday Night Live studio at 30 Rockefeller Center. But since much of the growth was spurred by generous state tax incentives, which reduce taxes by 30 percent on designated production projects, the joke may actually be on taxpayers The tax credits don’t directly… [More]