New York Strip Clubs: Bedbug Fears Unnerve Flea Market Shoppers
Every year, New York State issues a report that depicts its pension fund at the peak of health — not a penny short of what it needs to pay retirees their benefits. In some years, the report even shows a little surplus. But a Republican candidate for state comptroller with an M.B.A. from Harvard says that the pension is actually papering over a shortfall of tens of billions of dollars. [NYT]
A state law to tax cigarettes sold by Indian tribes in New York had barely gotten off ground on Wednesday when a state appellate court judge brought it to a halt. [NYT]
Nicole Paultre Bell, the fiancée of Sean Bell, is considering running for a vacant City Council seat representing Queens. [Politico]
Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, the leading contender to dethrone Representative Charles B. Rangel, said he would return thousands of dollars in campaign contributions he accepted from an ex-convict Wall Streeter who owns a notorious Bronx strip club. [Daily News]