Q68: Weekend Reading; Three Different Views of Mayor Giuliani

Subject: Q68: Weekend Reading
Date: 9/23/2005 8:19:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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The Quotidian
New York Civic

No. 68
Friday, September 23, 2005




Three Different Views of Mayor Giuliani

Register now for Civic Forum October 5


New York Civic, in cooperation with the Museum of the City of New York, will hold a public forum on Wednesday, October 5, at 6:45 p.m., at the Museum, 1220 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street). The subject will be the life and works of Rudolph W. Giuliani, the 107th Mayor of the City of New York, who served the two terms allowed by law, from 1994 to 2001. The three speakers have written extensively about the Giuliani administration. They are Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice, Andrew Kirtzman of WCBS-TV and Fred Siegel of Cooper Union. You can learn more about them by linking to their names.

The event is free to members of New York Civic or the Museum of the City of New York. There will be a $6 charge to others.

To register for this event please email corgi@nycivic.org or call 212-564-4441.



Discussing the Supreme Court nomination, the runoff that wasn't, photo IDs to vote (like in Mexico), unsettled races, and the Yonkers GOP.


Today we call your attention to columns in local newspapers that you are less likely to see than those on the op-ed page of the Times. They are good for weekend reading, particularly if we have a rainy day.

In Newsday, James Klurfeld, a liberal who edits their editorial pages, writes about the nominee for Chief Justice, ROBERTS IS RIGHT ABOUT PUTTING ASIDE THE PERSONAL: While Pure Objectivity May Not Be Possible, Judges and Good Reporters Always Attempt to Be Fair.

In the Sun, Andrew Wolf gives us some political history in RUNNING AWAY FROM THE RUNOFF. The lede: "Tuesday {Sep 27} would have been the runoff election that wasn't, the last chance that the local Democratic Party would have for the next four years to reverse its losing streak. And it is not surprising that the idea of a runoff, a great assembler of consensus, is under attack as 'divisive'. It is under siege by those who see our city as a collection of ethnic groups pursuing their own agendas, rather than a city of individuals united by our shared vision for the future."

In the Post, John R. Lott, Jr and Mario Villarreal, in A PHOTO-FIX FOR VOTING, discuss the findings of a bipartisan commission headed by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, who agreed that Americans should be required to have photo-IDs to vote. This practice is already followed in many countries around the world, including Mexico. Some other nations require specific ID cards, but not photos. The information in this column will surprise some people who consider efforts to prevent multiple voting and other fraud as akin to an activity of the Ku Klux Klan.

For political groupies only, Errol Louis' column in the News: COUNTDOWN, CONTINUED deals with the residue of the September 13 primary, some elections which are still contested, vile anonymous allegations in a Brooklyn Council race, etc.

For those intrigued by the relationship of politics and crime, Michael Gannon of the Yonkers Times-Herald reports on the election of Zehy Jereis as Yonkers Republican Committee Chairman. He describes some of Mr. Jereis past activities. We have not seen this item in a New York City paper. Read about our neighbors to the north.


Note On Medicaid Fraud Hearings


Separate hearings were held in Albany earlier this week by State Senate and Assembly committees on Medicaid fraud. We are wading through the testimony, which we asked to have sent to us, and we expect to bring you a report next week.

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