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Morning Links: At the Salad Bar With Nate Silver

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:31:43 -0400

Two Agence France-Presse journalists, Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt, and a Getty Images photographer, Joe Raedle, have been missing since Saturday morning in Libya while working in the eastern Tobruk region. The four Times reporters will be released Friday. [Agence France-Presse]

Disney is launching a subscription magazine business for children, with titles pegged to television shows and movies. Maybe this not the best medium through which to reach the first generation of iPad natives (and...

Sunday Reading: Military Strikes in Libya, Newspaper Probe of City Council

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:46:47 -0400

Libya: Military action. [NY Times]

Libya: "We will exterminate every traitor and collaborator with America, Britain, France and the crusader coalition," said Gadhafi. [WSJ]

Libya: "[Y]ou will always remain my son, and I have all the love for you as a son, and I do not want your image to change with me," Qaddafi wrote to Obama. [NY Times]

Travels: Rep. Grimm going on 6-day trip to the Middle East; details withheld. Spokeswoman tells me he's already...

Back In New Hampshire, Rudy Rips Obama, Offers Romney Advice

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:34:35 -0400

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- "I find it really hard to say this, because I feel bad about this," Rudy Giuliani told a banquet hall of 100 Republicans in New Hampshire on Friday night. "This president has been a failure in just about every single thing he's done. He has ruined our economy. He is ruining our health care."

It was a brief moment of forced gravity during an otherwise rollicking speech at the Manchester Republican Committee's annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner...

Cuomo Schedules White House Meeting to Discuss Indian Point

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:58:37 -0400

It's set for March 22, the governor said in a public statement just now, the latest effort in his push against the nuclear power plant in Westchester.

Cuomo:

"In light of the catastrophe in Japan, New Yorkers must know the facts regarding Indian Point and its latest risk assessment.

"After watching the events in Japan and having previously opposed the Indian Point plant, this past Tuesday, I requested the White House schedule a meeting between my staff...

Newsweek's Hanover Hub Stages Comeback

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:41:45 -0400

Tina Brown's promised Newsweek turnaround has yet to materialize, but its dingy FiDi headquarters is already staging a comeback.

In recent weeks, 7 Hanover Square has scored one of the largest financings so far this year, along with a major sublease by non-profit law firm the New York Legal Assistance Fund. The tenant has taken 36,250 square feet of Guardian Life Insurance's space on the 18th floor of the building for its headquarters, according to...

Doug Schoen: 'A Clear Majority Want Wal-Mart'

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:05:45 -0400

If you ask Doug Schoen, today's Quinnpiac poll confirms what he's been saying all along: New York City residents want Wal-Mart.

"A clear majority want Wal-Mart and a very large percentage will shop at Wal-Mart," Schoen told me in an interview this afternoon. "Our polling and Quinnipiac's polling show that."

Schoen's poll from December showed 71 percent of city residents favored opening a Wal-Mat store here. (Also, somewhat surprisingly, the poll said 73 percent of public sector...

Attention, Park Slope! Put Down Those Iodine Pills

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:55:56 -0400

Over the past few days, there has been a run on potassium iodide tablets in Brooklyn. Co-op shelves have been stripped bare as concerns mount over the fate of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan and the impact a meltdown might have on this brownstone borough. Part of the blame for the paucity of pills fell on the Obama administration, which some Park Slope residents believed was stockpiling the potassium iodide in...

Schneiderman Wants 'Full' Safety Check at NY Nuclear Plant

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:19:51 -0400

In the wake of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's most recent report that puts one of the reactors at Indian Point Energy Center at as the highest risk from earthquakes of all U.S. power plants, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman wrote to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission calling for more thorough safety checks of the facility. Schneiderman said that a "full, open" investigation into the seismic safety of Indian Point has to take place before they get relicensed...

Roundup: Schneiderman Aims at Indian Point, Critics Target Cuomo's School Numbers

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:25:42 -0400

Park Slope: "Ever since a magnitude 8.9 earthquake destabilized the four-reactor Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant 6,611 miles away, there has been a run on potassium iodide tablets at the co-op." [Matt Chaban]

Audio Montage: Obama, Rep. Yvette Clarke, Yoko Ono. [Jody Avirgan]

2012: Since video about Gifford's shooting, Palin "has been on a downward trajectory," says John Heilemann [Morning Joe].

Obeying Cuomo: Legislators can't fight Cuomo too much, thanks to Paterson's precedent. [Karen DeWitt]

Tracking Cuomo: "Governor...

You Must Remember This: How Lindsay Lohan Gets Her Knicks!

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:16:15 -0400

Plenty happens each day—how to keep up with it all? Time to test your memory!

--How did Tina Fey acquit herself as a tertiary character in a fake Bravo reality show?

--...and how does Mel Gibson do in Jodie Foster's new dip into directing?

--Speaking of which! How did the husky-voiced directress--scandalously!--finagle her way onto the cover of The Hollywood Reporter?

--But surely THR has no greater problems at the moment?

--What's the "coke of the art world"? (It...