City Cuts Renters' Fund, May Ban Bottled Water

Barack Obama is aiming for "no drama" foreign policy, writes Jason Zengerle. [Plank]

Liberal Obama supporters are upset by what they perceive to be his shift to the right, writes one conservative upstate blogger, but the problem is that during the campaign "too many liberals simply projected their own agendas on him." [Monroe Rising]

There is no assistant secretary of state for African-American affairs, but don't tell CNN. [TP]

A blogger thinks Fred Siegel is the only guy who sees Michael Bloomberg for what he is. [Forest Hills 72]

Eric Gioia and Simcha Felder are sponsoring a bill that would ban city offices from buying bottled water. [Post]

Apparently, Manhattan is now a renter's market. [The Real Estate]

But in Brooklyn, a blogger is hardly surprised that the city is cutting $500,000 from a fund meant to help displaced tenants on the Williamsburg-Greenpoint waterfront. [Brooklyn11211]