We are proud of you Hillary Clinton.
We shared your enthusiasm as you toured the country during your history-making campaign to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for the Oval Office.
We watched you meet and greet thousands of Americans in virtually every contiguous state in the United States.
You listened to the voters in the caucuses, at endless breakfasts, in the press, and at packed diners over pancakes. Everywhere the campaign trail took you, you got an earful. This nation poured their hearts out to you - about the war, the economy, health care, schools, the price of gasoline and pork bellies.
You fashioned several effective stump speeches and gave them repeatedly. You debated too. You answered the hard questions with aplomb and dignity. You went head-to-head with your democratic rivals until it was only you and Barack Obama left in the race.
We are proud that you showed future generations of women that a female can run for president - and run well.
Your campaign may have run out of cash from time-to-time, but it never ran out of energy. We admire the hours and the days you put into the race.
We think the cynics that say you spent $212 million and all you got to show for it was 18 million votes are naysayers and curmudgeons.
Now it is time to step back from the limelight, the grueling hours of travel, the endless hours of fund raising, late-night strategy sessions, all the second guessing and, of course, the self doubt.
We elected you as the junior Senator from New York. We are proud of the progress you made in helping our state and fighting for us in the Senate.
Welcome Back Hillary!
We will be glad to see you back home in New York. And we are sure that you will bring with you all the knowledge of the campaign trail to apply to the problems here in the Empire State.
Welcome Home Senator Clinton. Your work has only begun.
Déjàvu - all over again
Here we are in the midst of the city’s first heat wave - three or more consecutive days of 90 degrees or better temperatures -and we have already experienced small pockets of blackouts and some limited subway service disruptions.
We cannot blame Con Ed - not yet - even though their track record in Queens has not been stellar.
We the consumers have to cooperate with the utility giant and turn off our air conditioners when we are not home and turn up the thermostats to save power when we return. Con Edison is constantly rebuilding the system and has invested nearly $2 billion dollars just in Queens installing enough new cabling to stretch from Maine to Key West, Florida.
They have made the commitment; however, we users have to be accountable too. Help to conserve energy so that we may all have enough of it to go around.
