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Turner Construction CEO Peter Davoren (front) and Michael Bloomberg with 120 Park Avenue (left) and 919 Third Avenue, Bloomberg buildings where renovation costs were inflated in exchange for kickbacks, authorities say.
A small Queens glass company sent out a letter in 2017, alerting clients that it had fired three of its employees. It did not say why, but that became clear soon enough.
Authorities had discovered an alleged bribery scheme centered not on little-known Jonathan Metal & Glass but on Turner Construction and Bloomberg. Executives from the two giant firms were charged with accepting millions of dollars’ worth of payoffs in exchange for inflating interior construction contracts.
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Andrew Yang expected to file for NYC mayoral race this week
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Former presidential candidate’s campaign plans to enter the Democratic primary field
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Andrew Yang isn’t just the newest addition to the Democratic primary field in the race for mayor of New York City – he’s a new addition to city politics and government, whose experience doesn’t even extend to voting for mayor.
But Yang will have to learn fast, with six months to go until the June 2021 Democratic primary. A source close to Yang exclusively told City & State that he plans to file with the New York City Campaign Finance Board this week, formally entering the race for mayor, but declined to comment further. However Yang is not expected to actively raise money or launch his campaign until sometime after January 5, when voting is completed in the U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia. The one-time presidential candidate has temporarily relocated to the state to help support the two Democra
Liberals turned out for Joe Biden this year in greater numbers than they did for Hillary Clinton not because, in the words of New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, he is “their favorite person” but to have influence in the White House again.
“Our first task [is that] we’ve got to defeat the worst president in modern history in this country, and No. 2, we organize our people to make sure that Biden becomes the most progressive president since FDR,” said Bernie Sanders, the man Biden bested for the Democratic nomination and a top Ocasio-Cortez ally.
If personnel is policy, as the saying in Washington goes, the most doctrinaire progressives in the Democratic Party have to be getting a little concerned. While no one would confuse Biden’s incoming administration with President Trump’s, centrist and establishment Democrats have taken the lion’s share of the announced Cabinet and White House staff positions. And while it is still early, the Ocasio-Cortez/Sande
How to Harvest Good Ideas Just as seeds need fertilizer to grow well, innovation requires nurturing too. Aaron Renn | March 2014
In an era of creativity we have come to fetishize the idea. That’s why every innovation competition is about coming up with the best new ideas. It’s as though the idea itself has the power to generate transformation. Yet, if it’s never implemented, even the best idea is of no value.
This has been clearly shown in Rhode Island, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in America. The state has been in economic decline far longer than the Midwest’s Rust Belt, prompting many a search for a solution. As one local TV reporter noted, proposals have been piling up since the Eisenhower administration, with none of them ever really implemented.
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