Patricia "Patti" Harris is the First Deputy Mayor of New York City and is "known as Mayor Bloomberg's consigliere and sounding board." So when she was appointed to run Bloomberg's charitable foundation last year—while also still working at City Hall, drawing her $245,000/year salary—numerous news organizations filed Freedom of Information requests for her schedules. Now, over a year later, City Hall has released them, just in time for long Yom Kippur and Columbus Day weekend! more ›

Mayor Bloomberg's continued insistence that he is not currently running for President is bordering on the absurd, as even attempts to ascertain where his aide Kevin Sheekey is spending his vacation time turns up blacked out in official requests. Sheekey is Bloomberg's chief political deputy, and the man most closely identified with pushing the Mayor forward in a Presidential bid. The New York Times filed a Freedom of Information request with the Mayor's office to see what Sheekey had been up to around the time that Bloomberg excused himself from the Republican party. The results were less than revealing. more ›