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Hundreds of Bags Getting Left Behind at JFK Today
Thousands of passengers were delayed and hundreds of bags were left behind today because of a computer error at the New York airport.
Posted 07/30/08 in Daily Intel : Photo Op
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Air Travel Sucks, or Why I Love New York
In which one of your Daily Intel editors goes all the way to California to learn where he really belongs.
Posted 06/17/08 in Daily Intel : Intel
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Thrice-Married Catholic Not Considered So Religious
• Only 13 percent of responders think Rudy Giuliani is "of strong religious faith," according to a Time poll — and that's lower than Hillary's number (15 percent). But he once wanted to close down an art exhibit for blasphemy! [NYP] • "The very character of the Northeast is at stake" if greenhouse gases aren't reduced, a new study warns. Poised to vanish: Long Island lobsters and New York apples. What will thrive: smog, pollen, and floods. And, clearly, Claritin sales. [NYT] • An L.A.-to-London flight was diverted to JFK this morning because of a "suspicious passenger." Michael Chertoff's gut told him it was a harmless misunderstanding. [WNBC] • Shelly Silver still won't agree to bring the Assembly to the table for congestion-pricing talks — even as the desperate Mayor Bloomberg says he'll fly to Albany tomorrow. By now, we're just looking forward to Monday, when this mess will be over. [NYDN] • And, starting today, the MTA adds a "Mets express" to its 7 line: a one-stop service from midtown to Shea. It's just for an hour on game days, but funny thing: If they did it year-round, Willets Point might actually be habitable. [amNY]
Posted 07/12/07 in Daily Intel : The Morning Line
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‘Times,’ Bloomberg Decree JFK Terror Plot Barely Fit to Print
It's good to see some old-fashioned New York spirit seep back into our dealings with the evil, evil evildoers. Yesterday, we happily listened to Mayor Bloomberg channel (for once!) an authentic fuggeddaboudit 'tude: "You can't sit there and worry about everything. Get a life. You have a much greater danger of being hit by lightning than being struck by a terrorist." Flippancy is the new vigilance! Today, the Times gets in on the act the way only the Times can — haughtily yet self-consciously. National editor Suzanne Daley, fielding readers' questions, explained why the paper defiantly stuck the JFK pipeline plot into the Metro section: "Not all plots are the same," she wrote. "The plotters had yet to lay out plans. They had no financing. Nor did they have any explosives." Hear that, aspiring terrorists? No above-the-fold action unless you're sitting on an A-bomb. Daley continued: "Some [editors] argued [the story] should have been fronted, regardless of the lameness of the plot, simply because it was what everyone was talking about." It's nice to know the days when John Ashcroft would hiss something about "chatter" and we'd all dash for duct tape are gone with, well, John Ashcroft. It's equally nice that a story's popularity apparently doesn't even figure into the logic of the Times' front-page meetings. Talk to the Newsroom: National Editor Suzanne Daley [NYT] Earlier: Bloomberg On JFK Plot: 'Stop Worrying, Get a Life' [WCBS]
Posted 06/06/07 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Surrender!
• The fourth suspect in the alleged JFK pipeline plot is in custody. At the urging of a friend, Abdel Nur, 57, walked into a police station in Diego Martin, Trinidad, and turned himself in. [NYDN] • More surrenderings! Former assemblyman Clarence Norman Jr. and former State Supreme Court justice Gerald Garson, the main characters in a protracted judgeships-for-sale investigation, were sentenced yesterday. Both men left a Brooklyn courtroom in handcuffs, although Garson eked out a stay of his sentence. [NYT] • Ready for a $3 subway fare? By 2010, warns the Straphangers Campaign, the unlimited MetroCard will likely be $112 or, if the state coughs up some extra MTA cash, $92. But that's okay, because all our salaries will rise by 50 percent, too — right? Right? [amNY] • Gay marriage: bad for the baby Jesus, great for the economy. A new study by the city comptroller suggests that legalizing same-sex marriage would result in $142 million in economic benefits for NYC. [Crain's NY] • And Carla Katz, the Jersey union leader who's also, awkwardly, Governor Corzine's ex, tells all! In a Post exclusive! To Cindy Adams! Her big revelation: "There's absolutely nothing I have on Jon." [NYP]
Posted 06/06/07 in Daily Intel : The Morning Line
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The Kennedy Conspiracy
• There's more on the weekend's big story, the foiled plot to blow up JFK. One angle: The fourth suspect, still at large, could be an Al Qaeda lieutenant with direct ties to bin Laden. [NYP] • Another: The man who led the Feds to the plot was a twice-convicted drug dealer who successfully infiltrated the terror group after being muscled into serving as a government informant. [WNBC] • Rudy Giuliani, seeking to diversify his stoicism-in-the-face-of-tragedy bona fides, stopped by to speak at Montoursville High School, which lost sixteen students aboard TWA 800. The campaign hilariously insists he just popped in for no reason. [amNY] • Gun groups nationwide are casting Bloomberg as their No. 1 enemy, despite his concentration on illegal weapon sales. The NRA (whose site has a breaking-news ticker!) calls the mayor a "billionaire, Boston-grown evangelist for the nanny state." Boston-grown — now that stings. [NYT] • And OTB wants to put touch-screen terminals into city bars and accept "BlackBerry bets," convinced it will find a new demographic there. We eagerly await the spectacle of drunken hipsters ironically losing their shirt on their ponies. [NYDN]
Posted 06/04/07 in Daily Intel : The Morning Line
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