Good news for GOP, #1: Newly-revised numbers showed the economy only grew 2.2% from July to September. (Times)

Good news for GOP, #2: Rudy Giuliani is expected to announce today he will not run for Senate in 2010. (Post)

The president of Stevens Institute of Technology is under investigation for “plundering its endowment” and receiving illegal loans. (Times)

New crime scene tape being introduced by the NYPD is “meant to ward off curious onlookers, mostly other cops.” (Daily News)

It’s not surprising that JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark are madhouses; it’s a little more surprising that cops have already been called to quell “unruly crowds.” (Gothamist)