Food prices keep going up, sure, but some of this is absurd! In its second audit this month related to food in the city, the Comptroller's office has called out the Department of Education for not being careful with its food contracts—with costly results [PDF]. Like, for instance, with the distributor who charged the DOE the same amount to deliver cases of "Beef - Gyro Strip" as it did to deliver cheaper and lighter cases of "Eggplant, breaded." And it goes on. After the audit, the Comptroller's office went and smacked down a Department of Education contract that inexplicably jumped $20 million dollars in a year! more ›

Besides ruining the Mets and their fans' retirement funds, Bernie Madoff may cause divorces to go on forever. In a lawsuit that has reached the New York Court of Appeals, a man is seeking to revise the terms of his divorce because he lost a considerable amount of money after Madoff's pyramid scheme collapsed. more ›

In 2009 Alec Baldwin told Playboy that he'd be leaving 30 Rock at the end of his contract, saying, "I'm done in 2012. In March 2012 I’ll wake up and say, ‘What am I going to do now?' I may finish a play or something, but I'm retiring at the wrap party." Flash forward to last night, and the actor told Vulture that not only is he done next year, but the entire show will be ending. But... we need more time with Liz Lemon! more ›

Now that we know bus drivers can get up to two months of paid sick time after suffering the "assault" of being spit upon, what other perks have slipped into the city's union contracts? The Post dug up some strange rules about everything from overtime to classroom assignments, some of which rival the absurdity of the MTA's spitting policy. more ›

Eli Manning and the Giants have agreed to a contract extension that should keep Eli with Big Blue for the bulk of his career while turning him into the highest paid player in the NFL. With Manning's original contract coming out of the draft set to expire after this season, the Giants inked him to an additional six years, worth $97.5 million—not bad for the 14th highest-rated QB last season. more ›

If you think Windows Vista bugs are hurting your productivity, just be thankful you're not still struggling with typewriter ribbon and jammed keys. That's what the NY Post reports hundreds of city cops must do thanks to the NYPD's reliance on outdated technology, and it's slowing down policework. One cop tells the Post the typewriters are so archaic that, "We have to sneak around the rest of the precinct in search of a ribbon to steal." The Post also cites a retired NYPD officer and criminal justice professor who concludes the inefficient machines are hobbling the NYPD, discouraging officers from making arrests because filling out the necessary forms requires use of the dinosaurish typewriters and carbon-paper. So when will the city finally pull police office technology out of the 1970s? Well, since the city signed more than $1 million in new typewriter purchasing and servicing contracts last year, it's looking like robots could rule the subways before the NYPD ditches its last Selectric. more ›