—Traveling to or from New York airports today? Airport delays are piling up and cancellations are mounting. If it ices up late this afternoon, as the forecast indicates it might, it’s going to be an air-travel nightmare. [At 9:45 a.m., Flightstats.com was reporting "excessive delays" at all 3 New York airports, and also at the 3 Washington airports, Chicago O'Hare, Philadelphia, Boston and St. Louis.]
{Update: Newark, which had a 20 percent on-time arrival rate by noon, reported 611 arrivals and departures canceled today by 5 p.m. The total number of arrivals and departures scheduled for Newark today is 1,316 — so already, before the evening rush, nearly half of the flights into and out of Newark have been canceled.}
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IN OTHER NEWS …
—Oh, great police work. Note the dateline.
—A post on the Times DealBook today says that Northwest Airlines CEO Douglas Steenland could bail out with a golden parachute worth about $7.8 million after a merger between Northwest and Delta. Last week, Steenland was busy assuring employees that they wouldn’t be screwed in a merger. We shall see. Steenland, remember, was the guy in charge in 2006 when Northwest sent out that famous booklet on money-saving lifestyle tips to about-to-be laid-off employees. You know, the one that suggested people scavenge trash cans for useful objects to cut down on expenses?
—Real Dumb Magazine Selects Real Smart Cities — Forbes Magazine comes out with a highly questionable list of the nation’s “smartest cities.”
… And the Columbia Journalism Review explains (well, partially, at least) why Forbes’s list is stupid.
—Nobody asked me, but: Shouldn’t this guy otherwise be getting out of prison right about now for killing that girl?
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