Yesterday (December 29), New York's Daily News reported the story of a baby that was born - and died - in the lobby of a Brooklyn apartment building after waiting nine hours for police and fire personnel to respond to her emergency call.  Certainly, an extraordinary number of emergencies resulting from that day's blizzard accounted in large part for the delay.  But certainly, too, were the nearly impassible roads (as this writer, a New Yorker, can attest) and the Sanitation's slow progress in clearing them.

Now, courtesy of the New York Post, comes evidence that that slowness might have been deliberate:

Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts -- a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned.