Extra, Extra

- The FBI raided the Central Labor Council this morning (pictures from the Politcker)! Apparently there was a bid-rigging scheme afoot to scam the Department of Transportation
- Peter Braunstein violates probation
- Those new rescue ropes the FDNY got came in handy yesterday
- Doesn't it feel great to be in a state that gets sued by the Justice Department for not modernizing voting machines? Thanks, Albany - you guys are really doing a great job for us
- Lower East Side synagogue damaged by fired gets torn down - pictures from Curbed
- The man who punched his neighbor because the neighbor's dog peed on his property, only for the neighbor collapse and later die during surgery, is now charged with murder

Photograph of the "snowfall" from DrunkatNYU

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on March 2, 2006 6:21 PM

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mikey

dude: it probably would have been faster to click on the article and read the first sentence than to write your comment.

the Braunstein article does contain a choice bit, however: "Jack Ryan, a Probation Department spokesman..." do you think it's the Alec Baldwin "Red October" Jack Ryan, or Harrison Ford's "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger" Jack Ryan?

S.D.

I believe Braustein is still in jail, they are just tacking on more charges based on his prior probation.

Anonymous

We should be thankful the justice department has to sue the state. Those 60-year old lever voting machines are statistically the most reliable (i.e. have the smallest margin of error) voting machines available. And while no voting system is tamper-proof, lever machines are harder to scam than any other system, precisely because they are so old and clunky.

Give me a lever voting machine over an electronic voting ATM with unknown software any day.

DrunkAtNYU

Woo, I made the front page, vindication after all of these years... scratch that, months. Unfortunatley, it links to my flickr and not www.drunkatnyu.com