Turns out Americans don’t really care for hipsters
Hipsters are so passé. It turns out, Americans aren’t big fans of them.
City Council pushes legislation allowing non-citizens to vote
A bill proposing immigrant voting rights has strong support in the City Council, but the Bloomberg administration says they won’t have it.
Senators confident gun control measure will be heard
Two senators who brokered a breakthrough deal to expand background checks on gun buyers said they expected to defeat efforts to block the bill as the Senate takes up its first vote on gun-control legislation on Thursday.
City residents vote to spend millions of Council funding
Through a new process, residents voted on how to spend Council cash.
Christine Quinn criticized for blocking vote on sick day bill
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn drew criticism from some of her competitors in the race for mayor on Thursday for [...]
Senate confirms Hagel as secretary of defense
The Senate voted to confirm Chuck Hagel on Tuesday as President Barack Obama’s new secretary of defense.
Wrestling in shock as IOC votes to axe it from Olympic Games
Wrestling was in a state of shock after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) made a surprise recommendation on Tuesday to [...]