This article talks about how taxes are being put on more expensive items. This is in order to fix the fiscal cliff situation. This puts more taxes on more expensive homes.

With Christmas just around the corner people are stocking their shelves with new Christmas CDs.

With hurricane Sandy and all the storms New York has had to pay lots of money to help save the people, They can not be spending more money on a marathon when they are already raising money to help save victims of Sandy. They cannot afford more money for this marathon. Although the marathon does bring joy to the people and they could really use it, it will be hard to help fund it.