New Year’s Day links.
New York Mayor Bloomberg kisses Lady Gaga. Ball drops. H/T Arthur Goldstein.
500 Occupy Wall Street protesters briefly took back Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhanttan last night and this morning. “At least a dozen police officers charged into the park, plowing directly into a crowd of people, some of whom were trying to flee, pushing and shoving. One man was thrown down and pinned to the ground by several officers.”
“We want to make great teachers rich,” said Jason Kamras, the (Washington DC) district’s chief of human capital. This is from The New York Times report on Michelle Rhee’s DC merit pay program, where about 230