Medicare Annual Enrollment: $59×12 error!
Medicare.gov website states no premium for the UHC NY-0005 plan. When United Healthcare confirmed the…
Medicare Annual Enrollment: $59×12 error!
Medicare.gov website states no premium for the UHC NY-0005 plan. When United Healthcare confirmed the change in enrollment, it has a $59 per month monthly premium. An error that could cost me $708 per year! Is Medicare.gov at fault? Solution? Enroll directly at insurance carrier’s website.
Election Interference: Dog Mayor Election 2024
Even a “fun” election could be hijacked. Honorary NYC Dog Mayor Election 2024. When the runner-up Bertie the Pomeranian died Tuesday, November 19, it adds to the mystery.
Closing Riker: Tutor Perini got a $2.9B contract
NYCDCC selected Tutor Perini and O&G Industries to build a new 1,040 bed jail in Chinatown. Cost was first projected at $8 billion to build out local jails, not will cost at least $15 billion, and counting. Closing Rikers cannot happen by 2027 since those replacement jails are not expected to complete until 2031 for…
Expect Fairness in Apartment Rentals Act to fail
“For many of the apartments that I was looking at, there would be a broker fee, and no broker would be present, or a broker would be, like, extremely rude, and that was happening more times than not,” Ossé said. “I’m not anti-broker. I’m anti people being forced to pay for something they didn’t hire.”…
Justice delayed is justice denied
Emmanuel Polanco and Sterling Baez, husband and wife, rake in $500K while the 20 some Dominican Republic teachers victimized could not go home. Why is New York taxpayers continue to reward wrong doers?
Jaywalking decriminalized in New York City
Yes, the law has been on the books since 1958 with fines up to $250. Yes, New Yorkers want to get to the other side faster. New York Intro 0346-2024 is now law since the mayor has officially declined to sign off or veto the bill sent to his desk on September 26, 2024. Only…
Will the Safe Hotels Act make hotels safer?
City Council approved Intro 0991-2024 today. How do you measure effectiveness? Who does it benefit? The cost of business besides the license fee are security guard, 24/7 front desk staffing, required daily cleaning (What if the room is vacant?), human trafficking recognition training, and panic buttons. This bill would require hotel operators to obtain a…
History could be interpreted differently over time: Lion of Venice
Venice’s winged lion was made in China! Researchers have now showed that it was most likely originally a tomb guardian cast during the Tang dynasty (618-907) using bronze from the lower Yangtze River basin in southeast China. But the question of just how the 2.8-tonne statue made its way across continents to the top of a…
History is written by those who survived: Sir Hillary vs. Mallory
May 29, 1953, the 29,035-foot Mount Everest was reached by Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. Were they the first? George Herbert Leigh-Mallory did three expeditions. He and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine was last seen ascending near the summit around June 6, 1924. Irvine’s foot was found. Did they reach the summit 29 years…
Mayor Adam’s NYPD: Kaz Daughtry
Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry — an NYPD liaison to City Hall — made $60,000 more than the department’s top cop in 2023, thanks in part to a payroll loophole that allowed him to reap time and a half. Daughtry’s salary in 2023: $311,000. NYPD Commissioner’s salary $243,000.
