Queens Crap (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
From the NY Post : A cruel con artist swindled an 86-year-old Queens woman out of more than $11,000 by convincing her there was a mysterious sound coming from her car that he could fix, authorities said. Billy Thompson, 47, did nothing but fiddle with the engine of the elderly woman's 1976 Dodge Aspen before taking her bank check, according to the Queens DA's Office. The woman was driving on Sept....
Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
Queens, NY – A New Jersey man is accused of conning an 86-year-old motorist into paying him $11,200 after he flagged down her car and told her it needed immediate repair. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Friday that Billy Thompson, of Newark, N.J., was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. Brown said [...]
New York Post (Free subscription) | 02/06/2010
A cruel con artist swindled an 86-year-old Queens woman out of more than $11,000 by convincing her there was a mysterious sound coming from her car that he could fix, authorities said. Billy Thompson, 47, did nothing but fiddle with the engine of the elderly woman's 1976 Dodge...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
A New Jersey man is accused of conning an 86-year-old motorist into paying him $11,200 after he flagged down her car and told her it needed immediate repair. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Friday that Billy Thompson, of Newark, N.J., was charged with grand larceny and criminal...
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 01/15/2010
The latest review at The Quarterly Conversation is My Little War by Louis Paul Boon, published by the Dalkey Archive. Here's a bit of what our reviewer Billy Thompson thought of it: Stylistically, My Little War feels more like a journal than a novel. It is a series of short entries (not even stories) that recount things like having a conversation with a meat inspector, remembering a kid who got picked...
Boot Sale Sounds (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Not really a boot sale find but an excuse to upload some novelty songs by Fred Douglas who I know nothing about except he made lots of cover versions of hits on the cheap Regal label that sold in Woolworths I believe back in the 30's and 40's. Later they had the Embassy label which did a similar service - all the pop hits of the day by obscure singers who nobody had ever heard of! Fred Douglas went...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The Daily News' Elizabeth Benjamin reports that City Comptroller Bill Thompson's name is "being floated" for various positions, including Senator. Rep. Jose Serrano says, "Billy Thompson obviously is the kind of public servant who not only who serves the public well but has proven he doesn't need a lot of money to do well in an election. He would be a formidable candidate statewide...
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In all of the speculating over, "Who Killed Billy Thompson," the role of President Obama has loomed large. The NY Daily News raises some very interesting points: " President Obama 's brain trust floated a raft of excuses on Wednesday in answer to complaints that he didn't lift a finger for vanquished Democrat William Thompson . "It was a sleeper race. No one thought it was going...
Room Eight (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
After 16 continuous years of Republican mayors in New York City, you would think that there would be an urgency amongst democrats (nationwide) to get rid of this present pompous and arrogant mayor Michael Bloomberg: well you could have fooled me. After watching President Barack Obama (and surely his political director /Patrick Gaspard too) insult the democrat’s nominee William (Billy) Thompson,...
Lost in the Ozone... (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Read original... William Thompson speaks at a rally outside of Mayor Bloomberg's campaign headquarters on Tuesday to protest Bloomberg's refusal to state his positions on an AIDS issues. Democratic mayoral hopeful William Thompson finally got some love from President Obama - but he had to share it with two other citywide candidates. "Our great city controller, our candidate for mayor, my friend...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
If Bill Thompson could draw up the ideal endorsement from President Obama, it probably wouldn't have been worded as Obama delivered it last night . "A great city comptroller, our candidate for mayor, my friend Billy Thompson is in the house," is the entirety of what Obama said, which Thompson then decided to interpret as an endorsement. But even if it wasn't really an "endorsement,"...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
President Barack Obama did in fact mention Democratic candidate for mayor, City Comptroller Bill Thompson, during last night 's Democratic fundraiser: " Our great city comptroller, our candidate for mayor, my friend Billy Thompson is in the house. " And that was it. Even Thompson himself, when asked if he thought it was an endorsement, said , "No. Do you consider that an endorsement?"...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
All day Bill Thompson's campaign was atwitter over the chance that President Obama would mention and perhaps, maybe, possibly even endorse the Democratic candidate for mayor. Well, there's good news and bad news. The good news: Obama mentioned Thompson! The bad: He didn't exactly endorse him. This is what Obama said: "A great city comptroller, our candidate for mayor, my friend Billy Thompson...
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Democratic mayoral nominee Bill Thompson finally got the personal shout-out he had been pining for from President Obama, but he had to share the glory. The president acknowledged the comptroller from the stage at a low-dollar, health care reform-themed DNC event at the Hammerstein Ballroom tonight, telling the crowd: "Our candidate for mayor, my friend Billy Thompson, is in the house." But...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
No Billy Thompson on the Broncos' 50-year anniversary team? What, are the uncounted chads in the mail?
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