Tuesday's off-year election may not have had the high stakes of the 2008 presidential election, but several races are significant on the national level:
Last fall, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg won his campaign to extend the city's mayoral term limits from two four-year terms to three. Next week, he'll see if voters think he should serve a third term.
Looking to expand its reach beyond Wall Street, Bloomberg LP said Tuesday it would buy BusinessWeek magazine from McGraw Hill Cos.
An investigation commissioned by the city of New York found private gun vendors selling weapons to buyers who admitted not being able to pass background checks, breaking federal law, a report released Wednesday says.
Olga A. Mendez, a ground-breaking Puerto Rican politician from New York City, has died after a long battle with cancer, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced.
Five new cases of the H1N1 virus in New York City schools will force three schools to close for a week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference Thursday evening.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed cases of swine flu in eight students at a New York preparatory school, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday.
New York City's Office of Management and Budget announced Wednesday an additional round of layoffs may be necessary to offset the city's 2010 budget shortfall.
New York City plans to spend $45 million on job training and other programs to aid unemployed bankers and reinvigorate the city's business community.
The source of a mysterious maple syrup-like smell that has periodically blanketed New York is not a particularly aromatic pancake house but a New Jersey factory involved in the processing of fenugreek seeds, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday.
Tuesday's off-year election may not have had the high stakes of the 2008 presidential election, but several races are significant on the national level:
Last fall, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg won his campaign to extend the city's mayoral term limits from two four-year terms to three. Next week, he'll see if voters think he should serve a third term.
Looking to expand its reach beyond Wall Street, Bloomberg LP said Tuesday it would buy BusinessWeek magazine from McGraw Hill Cos.
An investigation commissioned by the city of New York found private gun vendors selling weapons to buyers who admitted not being able to pass background checks, breaking federal law, a report released Wednesday says.
Olga A. Mendez, a ground-breaking Puerto Rican politician from New York City, has died after a long battle with cancer, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced.
Five new cases of the H1N1 virus in New York City schools will force three schools to close for a week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference Thursday evening.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed cases of swine flu in eight students at a New York preparatory school, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday.
New York City's Office of Management and Budget announced Wednesday an additional round of layoffs may be necessary to offset the city's 2010 budget shortfall.
New York City plans to spend $45 million on job training and other programs to aid unemployed bankers and reinvigorate the city's business community.
The source of a mysterious maple syrup-like smell that has periodically blanketed New York is not a particularly aromatic pancake house but a New Jersey factory involved in the processing of fenugreek seeds, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday.
The Big Apple will have to tighten its belt as the city that leans heavily on Wall Street's profits is expected to suffer a dramatic decrease in tax revenues in coming years.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday will lay out details of a plan to cut an additional $1 billion from the city budget and lay off as many as 23,000 city employees, according to a press release from the Mayor's office.
Pilot Chesley Sullenberger saved the lives of 155 passengers and crew
A US Airways plane with 155 people on board ditched into a chilly Hudson River on Thursday, apparently after striking at least one bird upon takeoff from New York's LaGuardia Airport, according to officials and passengers.
A New York hospital worker was suspended for failing to report the gunshot wound of NFL star Plaxico Burress, a hospital spokeswoman told CNN Monday.
New York City will cancel the police academy's next class, cut hundreds of jobs and close dental clinics for poor children to trim its budget amid an economic crisis
The New York City Council on Thursday voted in favor of a bill that would extend term limits, allowing Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for a third term.
Michael Bloomberg's attempt to amend New York City's mayoral term limits revisits a long, robust debate on the controversial topic
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday he is asking the city council to change the office's two-term limit to allow him to run for a third term.
The owners of the World Trade Center site scaled back designs for a multibillion-dollar transit hub Thursday and delayed several projects by up to two years, but said costs will still be more than $1 billion over budget
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has decided to try to reverse the term-limits law he had long supported so he can seek a third term next year and help the city emerge from financial turmoil
Seven years after devastating terrorist attacks brought death to New York's World Trade Centers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, the first permanent, on-site memorial is being dedicated Thursday at the Pentagon.
The likelihood that terrorists will be able to target the United States with a nuclear weapon is increasing, a former senator testified before a congressional committee Wednesday.
New York's famous skyline may be getting a new addition: Wind turbines.
When Merrill Lynch announced last month that it would sell back its long-held stake in financial data provider Bloomberg L.P., chief executive John Thain was praised for moving aggressively to restore the firm's capital position and slim its bloated balance sheet.
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a registered independent, talked with CNN's Campbell Brown about America's infrastructure, what scares them most and what can be done about the billion-dollar problem.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking
If you believe the rumors, it's as if Mayor Michael Bloomberg is having a midterm crisis.
The city's buildings commissioner resigned Tuesday, under fire from irate residents and the mayor over a rising number of deadly construction accidents
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday that whoever wins the presidency in November, "at least we'll have an adult in office who can lead and accomplish something."
He was only the warm-up act for Sen. Barack Obama's economic speech in New York on Thursday, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg sparked plenty of speculation by sharing the stage with the Democratic presidential hopeful.
Three people were missing Sunday, a day after a crane collapsed, killing four construction workers on the east side of Midtown Manhattan, Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters.
Letters claiming responsibility for the bombing of a military recruiting station in New York's Times Square arrived in the Washington offices of several members of Congress on Thursday, just hours after the blast, authorities said.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has publicly flirted with the idea of a run for the White House as an independent, said he will not run for president.
A sweeping new global report, released by the World Health Organization today in New York City, urges governments to get tough on the tobacco epidemic before it's too late
Two veteran political consultants form a committee to convince the billionaire New York City mayor to run for President as a third-party candidate
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will decide by early March whether he will pursue an independent bid for the White House, a source close to the mayor told CNN.
New York City is on course to mark the fewest homicides since records have been kept, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced Wednesday.
The lights of Broadway will shine brightly again after stagehands and producers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday evening, ending a 19-day strike.
Merrill Lynch all but hung a "For Sale" sign today on its 20 percent holding of Bloomberg LP, the financial information company.
Two firefighters were killed Saturday while battling a blaze at a building just south of New York's ground zero, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, calling it "another cruel blow" to the city.
Strong winds and heavy rainstorms tore through the Big Apple early Wednesday, killing one person and wreaking havoc on the region's transit system and causing delays at two major airports.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a potential independent presidential candidate, pushes for performance-based merit pay for teachers in the nation's public schools
An explosion rocks New York, sending fear over a city that knows it is a target of terror
Political junkies are excited and electrified over a potential independent presidential bid by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and for good reason.
Is there popular support for a Michael Bloomberg presidential candidacy? The latest CNN-Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday has the answer: Yes -- a surprising amount.
The specter of an all-New York November 2008 was raised when Bloomberg, a titular Republican since his 2001 mayoral run, announced last week that he was quitting the GOP to become an independent
There typically aren't a lot of political advertisements in odd years since there aren't any Congressional races and no presidential election. But this odd year is shaping up to be a bit odder than the most.
For all the frenzied speculation, the new independent has plenty of reasons not to make a Presidential bid
As an independent candidate for President, he wouldn't be afavorite. But he could hurt theDemocrats' chances
New York's mayor claims he has no plans to run for President. But his latest party change suggests he's toying with the idea
The New York City Mayor and California's Governor are doing the things that gridlocked Washington won't
The ubiquitous New York City yellow cab is going green.
Expressing dismay over the Republican Party's trajectory, Sen. Chuck Hagel said Sunday that an independent presidential bid would be good for the nation.
As an oncoming nor'easter dumped heavy rains along the mid-Atlantic coast, Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged New Yorkers to use mass transit Monday and take other precautions.
After he had been ignominiously fired from a firm he loved, started a financial-information company that almost no one thought had a chance - and then triumphantly watched it change the landscape o...
Police worked Thursday to find out why a gunman wearing a fake beard shot a waiter and two volunteer police officers to death.
New York officials evacuated a number of buildings and shut down some trains after a mysterious gaslike odor was reported Monday.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg met Tuesday with the family of a man shot and killed by police early Saturday in an incident that has sparked community outrage and could lead to a federal investigation.
Construction at the World Trade Center site will continue despite discovery nearby of apparent remains of 9/11 victims, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday.
Buses and subways in New York City were on the move again early Friday after the city's 33,000 mass transit workers returned to their posts following a three-day strike, although negotiations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority continue.
If New York City bus and subway workers strike when their contract expires at 12:01 a.m. ET Friday, there will be "no winners," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said as he described the contingency plan to deal with a possible mass transit shutdown.
A helium-filled balloon taking part in New York's annual Thanksgiving parade hit a lamppost near Times Square on Thursday, causing a light to fall and injure two sisters from Albany, officials said.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday he and other city officials weren't about to wait until a security threat materialized before acting.
New York City police said Monday they will reduce the increased security measures put in place last week on the city's subways.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday stood by his decision to increase security after information from the FBI revealed a "specific threat" against the city's subway system, despite intelligence officials saying the information was not credible.
New York City's subway system was put under heightened alert Thursday after officials received information from the FBI about a "specific threat," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg last week answered a phone call at his home from a woman with a housing complaint.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude's free art display "The Gates" far surpassed expectations, attracting an estimated 4 million visitors to Central Park and generating $254 million for New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Wednesday.
A fierce winter storm virtually shut down parts of the Midwest and Northeast on Saturday, causing airlines to cancel about 3,000 flights and stranding 800 passengers in Philadelphia.
When it happens, you might think you're the only one who has been fired or suffered a setback in your career. In reality, you are far from alone -- some of the world's best and brightest have been sacked too.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire with no prior government experience, took over New York City four months after September 11. So far, his CEO mayoralty, if not beloved, has been praised for its efficiency. At City Hall on the eve of the GOP. Convention, Bloomberg spoke with TIME's Amanda Ripley about New Yorkers, anarchists and his first convention.
He sits at half a desk in a room filled with desks, the desks crowded with crisp white shirts, the white shirts stuffed with senior officials, all of them chattering and clattering and on occasion ...
If you could sit down for a heart-to-heart with any financial pro in the world, whom would you choose? That's the premise behind one of my favorite editorial franchises at MONEY, the Ultimate Inves...
Mike Bloomberg likes the sound of his own name. He plasters it everywhere, from his radio and television stations to the computer terminals that have made him a billionaire. It's even two of the th...
For almost two decades, media moguls have fought a war over who would supply news and data to the desktops of Wall Street. So far, Michael Bloomberg has prevailed. The sharky former general partner...
A new toy arrived in the mail recently, an oddly seductive palm-sized matte black device. Fiddling with the "Fine Tune" dial on this made-in-China portable radio revealed its insidious secret: It r...
By the time you get to the end of Bloomberg by Bloomberg, you may find that you admire Michael Bloomberg almost as much as he admires himself. After all, when Bloomberg was cut loose by Salomon Bro...
On this typically frantic Thursday morning in the Park Avenue office of Bloomberg LP, reporters hack at their computer screens, sending up-to-the-minute business news over the electronic highway to...
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