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Robert Ostertag - 50 opening days with the New York Mets

Patrick Donges — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:40:01 +0000

Making it through 50 of anything is quite an accomplishment. Going to 50 baseball games in a lifetime, for people not in the industry, is a feat likely held by a slight percentage of fans. Going to 50 opening days for a single team is an accomplishment shared by a chosen few, the fan elite.

NY Gov. Cuomo to extend tax bracket

Jaired Crofut — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:09:43 +0000

The New York Times reports that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is finalizing a deal with legislative leaders to extend a high-tax bracket for wealthy New Yorkers.

The bracket applies to individuals making more than $1 million and married couples making more than $2 million. The measure was first approved in late 2011 and would have expired at the end of the 2014 election year, but, lawmakers are now talking about extending the bracket through 2017.

New York Times Co. Puts Boston Globe Up For Sale

Paul Tuthill — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:51:00 +0000

The New York Times is putting its New England holdings, including the Boston Globe up for sale.

The Obits: The New York Times Annual 2012

Joe Donahue — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:35:00 +0000

New York Times Obituaries Editors, William McDonald, is back again with a new collection of obituaries for the colorful figures who have died this year. Here's your chance to get a glimpse into the lives of the provocative and powerful, the saintly and the scandalous. Did you know Steve Jobs had a long-lost sister? Or that Loretta Young and Clark Gable had a love child. Or that Stalin’s daughter, Lana Peters - the “little Princess of the Kremlin”—ended up in a cabin in northern Wisconsin?

Endtimes?: Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times

Joe Donahue — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 04:09:22 +0000

From false stories about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to growing competition from online and twenty-four-hour cable news, the first decade of the twenty-first century was not particularly kind to the New York Times.

Alan Chartock...In Conversation with Andrew Lehren

Alan Chartock — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:07:44 +0000

Host Alan Chartock is joined by New York Times investigative reporter Andrew Lehren, the 2012 Ottaway professor of journalism at the State University of New York at New Paltz this semester.