Pedro Espada is a minor Latin American dictator

And Joe Bruno is like Berlusconi, Malcolm Smith like Robert Mugabe, and Shelly Silver like Ariel Sharon? Maybe we should just say that the State government is like a corrupt third-world country of indeterminate ethnicity and leave it at that.

Let’s not label people unnecessarily. Bear in mind that plenty of these situations we see about walking/biking to school are in NY or NJ.

this is a great example of why America hates unions

go ahead, defend it

Judging by the erratic actions of school administration and the surprising number of commenting posts that seemingly agree with them, I’d say that it is safe to assume that a large proportion of the population is operating on seriously screwed up priorities.

Modern day middle America is more averse to change today that at any other point in the last 30 years. They detest the status quo and they detest the people trying to change it. They openly flout the law each and every day, while demonizing any sort of civil disobedience toward a more progressive end.

School administration doesn’t want our children biking to school. That sentence alone is terrifying, sad, and says a lot about what we value as a society.

They charge a guy with some homicide charge (not clear exactly which, as Eileen points out)–and apparently what makes them decide it’s homicide is the idea that two weeks before the incident, the driver stopped taking meds. But speeding that results in a death often results in no charges?

Boy I hope the next DA really turns that BS around.

And according to the earlier Streetsblog article, the charges against the driver were for manslaughter and negligent homicide — were they changed to murder at some point or does NY law actually consider all homicides a form of murder?