Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis voted in opposition to federal hurricane reduction for New York after Hurricane Sandy when he was in Congress.
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All the things’s going to hell
Final week’s New York Instances Science part. Cowl web page is on suicide. Backside of web page is about malaria. Full Web page 2 — killer asteroids. Web page 3 prime half? Cancers. Backside half? Tumors. Subsequent web page? Method scarcity feeding issues.
Web page 5 lightens up. Its entirety offers with suicide. Web page 6? Legionnaires illness. A crappy marriage is on Web page 7. Operating the entire aspect is about working to the john and urinary tract infections. In the event you survive lengthy sufficient, Web page 8 is a continuation of malaria.
In different horrible information is Florida. Residents in Naples’ Seventeenth-floor hi-rise can not get upstairs. No energy. No generator. No phrase about repairs. Residents informed: “Don’t name us. It will likely be weeks.” Garages are flooded. Automobiles towed to junkyards. Homes, vehicles, vehicles sit within the bay. Complete docks bob within the canal. If — If! — you may get hurricane insurance coverage once more, the earlier value was $95,000 a yr.
After which there’s Ron DeSantis, who, as a then-freshman Congressman, didn’t approve our state needing federal help again when Hurricane Sandy hit us. New York Republicans had been livid. Now, he’s in want of federal funds — and, after all, no opposition. As a result of this new hurricane injury, he wants billions to treatment destroying his state. Bear in mind, along with his final reduction funds he spent a bit to ship migrants to Martha’s Winery.
Ripping ungrateful Ripa
TV’s Henry Schleiff, longtime chief of channels like Discovery and Journey, plus a pal to the late Regis Philbin: “We perceive Kelly Ripa’s must promote her new e book — nevertheless it shouldn’t be on the expense of attacking nationwide treasure Regis who gave Kelly her break by way of having her as his co-host. Maybe present co-host Ryan Seacrest might current related issues about her. Reasonably than itemizing complaints, she ought to specific gratitude to him for the break that modified her life. She ought to have truly devoted the e book to Regis.”
Gov chows down
Present, and future, Gov. Kathy Hochul — Zeldin can NOT make it — dined at Tudor Metropolis Steakhouse. Coming from a Cipriani Columbus Day speech, her husband made the reservation. First time there. They’d needed to come back for a very long time. Quiet dinner. Sat in again by the library nook. Wished one visitor Blissful Birthday, posed with different company and — better of all — had been good tippers. It was Champagne plus Sancerre plus beet salad plus branzino.
Odds and ends
Senate hopeful Herschel Walker’s huge in Washington, however his child Christian is aware of the nice meals’s right here. He did dinner at Dave Goodside’s UES Seashore Café . . . New Yorker Peter Cincotti carried out at Café Carlyle. Offered out, standing ovation, so listen. He’s coming again . . . Tectonic Theater Challenge profit at Chelsea Manufacturing facility. Billy Porter, Darren Criss, Michael Urie carried out. Nancy Pelosi was “bopping” on the dance ground — no matter which means, apart from not comforting her alone husband who bought arrested for driving whereas soused . . . Remark: The EMS Lt. Alison Russo-Elling who was killed. One who’d been shut — actually, actually shut — stated all she all the time needed to do was assist individuals . . . Rizzoli pushing new cookbook. “The Delmonico Approach: Chic Entertaining and Legendary Recipes From the Restaurant That Made New York.”
Let’s hear it for America’s scholastic skills. This child simply graduated an Ivy League school. His mom’s so happy with him. Now he can write on bathroom partitions in Latin.
Solely in New York, children, solely in New York.
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