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As calls mount for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign, the law professor in me wonders impishly why he’s still in office. After all, as critics have pointed out, were Cuomo a CEO, he’d likely be on his way out. But he’s not a CEO; he’s an elected official; and he has no written contract with any sort of morals clause, or, as has become fashionable, a clause in which he promises not to bring his employer into disrepute.
The question is . why not?
Well, because elected officials don’t sign contracts. Maybe this flows from the separation of powers, but maybe it’s simply a matter of historical tradition, the way we’ve always done things. The protection against malfeasance or misfeasance is, with rare exception, the judgment of the voters at the next election.
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Incredible photographs taken by one of America s earliest news picture agencies have emerged, with Titanic survivors, teenage suffragettes and even royalty among the images.
The pictures were produced and gathered for worldwide distribution by George Grantham Bain through his Bain News Service.
The service was established in 1898 by Bain, who was known as the father of photographic news , in New York City and worked to accumulate photographs of newsworthy events which could then be distributed to newspapers around the world.
Among the images is a photograph of 13-year-old suffragette Fay Hubbard proudly showing a young boy propaganda whilst wearing a bag labelled American Suffragette.
Print this article Andrew Yang speaks at an event announcing his candidacy for New York City mayor in Manhattan, January 14, 2021.
(Mike Segar/Reuters) The NYC flag is a classic American symbol that has flown since 1915. Throwing it away would be tragic and pointless.
On February 1, Andrew Yang the New York author, entrepreneur, nonprofiteer, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate now running for New York City mayor tweeted that the official flag of his adopted city, a flag that has iconically flown over the New York skyline since 1915, should be offhandedly retired and replaced with a less “old” design.
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“The colors are based on the Dutch Prince’s flag. . . . The seal is old,” Yang asserted, referring to the official NYC seal borne by the flag.