Happy New Year: Can I Have the Old One Back?
1st January 2014
Steven Hayward certainly speaks for me.
2014 is just a few hours old, but we’ve already got the apparent winner for the Nanny of the Year, and it’s New York’s brand new mayor Bill de Blasio. According to the NY Daily News, de Blasio wants to do Bloomberg one better in the authoritarianism department by shutting down all of the city’s remaining horse-drawn carriages.
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Naturally there are “advocacy groups” behind this. What would we do without advocacy groups. It sounds like this is driven by the PETA types, rather than by environmentalists or health nuts worried about the tiny residue of horse manure around Central Park. Either way, New York City is in for a miserable next four years from de Blasio. Maybe we can bring Rudy back in 2017?