The Newspaper Association of America is crowing of late over the growth of audiences at online news websites.
Newspaper companies drove record traffic to their websites in the first quarter of 2010, attracting an unprecedented 74.4 million unique visitors per month on average - more than one-third (37 percent) of all Internet users. This new ( Read more... )

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Today I wish I lived in Palm Beach County, Florida. The temperature is floating in the high 70s, the humidity in the low 40s. Here, in western New York, it has been raining and partly cloudy.

Yep, nice weather down south. But, more importantly, I could vote today in a special election in House District 19 to replace Rep. Robert Wexler, who ( Read more... )

That pricey apartment shout-show host Rush Limbaugh seeks to unload for about $14 million - you know, the gaudy palace with not one but two grand views of Central Park and environs - sits in zip code 10128, down by Fifth Avenue and 86th ( Read more... )

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I know, I know. The two words leave you ROTFL: Congressional ethics.

But this gets funnier. First, House members determine the legal but unsavory and corrupt behaviors that keep them collecting that $174,000 paycheck with generous federal health and retirement bennies. Then they reverse-engineer the ethics code to make all those behaviors ethical ( Read more... )

The New York Times parked a travesty of a story on its Web site today reporting that "the Iranians moved roughly 4,300 pounds of low-enriched uranium out of deep underground storage" to a small, above-ground plant, leaving it vulnerable to attack, sabotage or some other suitable, destructive fate. Interesting, but ...

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For the first time in many years, the state of New York owes me a tax refund - all of $13. But our governor, David Paterson, doesn't want to give it to me - at least not right away. (And he wants to be re-elected?)

I'm not alone. Paterson wants to hang on to about $500 million in tax refunds due the state's citizens. It's an accounting dodge ( Read more... )

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