Two Out of Three Groundhogs Ain't Science
Chuck and General Lee are at odds this year with Punxsutawney Phil
New York Times editorial writer Lawrence Downes is right on the money. Today’s miles-from-Punxsutawney business involving Mayor Bill de Blasio and “Staten Island Chuck” (pictured) cannot help but gnaw at the professional self-esteem of City Hall beat reporters:
This ritual, an endlessly repeating, perennially useless expenditure of mayoral time and media resources, seems to have survived another year. See you next year, on this day, in this space.
Downes has the “Rush Transcript” from the Mayor’s Office of what was said at the critical shadow-no-shadow moment.
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