From NBC 4:News 4 New York correspondent Tim Minton, who joined WNBC in 1998, has been honored with 18 Emmy Awards and other local and national recognition for investigative reporting.
Minton investigated a series of construction accidents in New York City that led to the resignation in April 2008 of the buildings commissioner. In 2006, he reported on a facility applying electric shocks to discipline students with developmental disabilities who misbehaved. That investigation led the New York State Board of Regents to ban the practice in 2007.
Minton came to WNBC from WABC-TV in New York where he was a lead reporter and investigative correspondent. Minton reported for WABC on the investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800. He covered the terrorism trials of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and terrorists convicted of plotting to blow up a dozen U.S. jetliners.
Wow, that's some pretty heavy stuff...
So what the hell is this?
The perennially political Vallone family had a big announcement Tuesday.
"I spoke to my father over the weekend and we just decided that it was time for the 'junior' to go," joked the New York City Council member now formerly known as Peter Vallone, Jr.
"We were playing volleyball at the time, and my father had just returned one of my best spikes," he told NBCNewYork. "That's when I said,'Okay, that's it, from now on, you have to use senior and I'm not using junior anymore.' "
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Someone claims they overheard the following a few months ago:
What is wrong with Astoria?
They used to give me respect now they they poke fun at us and give him a hard time.
ah, shucks.
in our hearts he will always be ...
Junior!
First line of his article:
"They're going to have to change the stationary [sic]."
Tim, see a neurologist. It could be early-onset Alzheimer's.
I guess every journalist has to cover the prostitution beat at some point.
It is TV News
Tits and Buzz
What u expect
Which Vallone is the tits and which is the buzz?
That's journalism. One day you're covering a deadly stabbing, the next day you're covering a harmless dog show. That's why I chose this profession, it gives me versatility to report on a variety of stories.
Vitch Valloney ist mit der tits und vitch von ist mit der butz? Ach ja, zat vas anudder gut von. It chust gets bedder und bedder. Hahr, hahr.
Hey! That's the guy that sold me a previously owned 1995 Ford Exploder.
'That's why I chose this profession, it gives me versatility to report on a variety of stories."
I'm still trying to figure out what the story is...
The story is the Coming of Age of Vallone the Younger. Cf. Kaiser Wilhelm watching Bismarck depart:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Dropping_the_Pilot
http://www.qgazette.com/news/2010-06-02/Front_Page/Astoria_Rezoning_Gets_Nod.html
Peter Vallone Jr, Community Preservationist
or
Why Astoria is a laughing stock
or
Why presevation in NYC is dead: my block is protected and I don't give a f*k that yours isn't.
You got 'upzone' (Dutch Kills) and you got 'downzone' (everyone else).
What do you call it when you have 2 story buildings in an area that is zoned for 8 stories, and you change the zoning to 6 stories so they can build 6 story buildings?
Vallonezone.
See also 'affordable housing' and 'planned development.'
looks like daddy is trying to distance himself from junior.
No, it looks like the younger Vallone told a joke and NBC made a story out of it.
Did someone say "Tom Manton?"
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