America is changing!

America is changing!

I’m just sitting here in my sunny 4th floor office looking over a Times Square that is void of vehicles.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s experiment kicked in on Monday and will last ’til the end of the year.

I must say the whole thing seems very pleasing to the eye and ear. Goodness knows what drivers and cabbies are thinking at this moment. I wonder if there will be any effect on the economy of New York City?

So, New York is changing and America too.

If you want further proof look no further than the country’s first African American President announcing the country’s first hispanic potential Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor. It’s amazing to witness this on the monitor in our newsroom.

I mention this because the candidate grew up dirt poor in New York. Her mother devoted her life to Sotomayor and her brother working three jobs just to get by. Now look at the reward for all that sacrifice.

Hey let’s stay cheerful because the New York stock markets are up about two percent this Tuesday. They were closed on Monday for the Memorial Day holiday.

Investors reacting to some improved economic data and choosing to ignore North Korea’s nuclear test and GM’s pending bankrupcy which many think will happen next Monday or just before.

More later …

- John Terrett, New York Correspondent