Home State: Circling her mother, she circles Albany now. State of the MTA: still sucks State Presence: Its not about putting a letter on the Bwog State Debate: Maybe this is why Obama never visits us Real eState: Public toilets = new housing?   

In the great legacy of great Columbia-affiliated writerly-types, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer announced today that former professor Jean Valentine will be the next New York State Poet and Mary Gordon, Barnard McIntosh Professor of English, will be State Author.  Much like an elected congressman, the two will serve two terms and probably sit on […]