• Rich New Yorkers stick everyone else with over $11 million of their own sick spouses' medical bills. What economic gap? [NYP]

• Strikes are all the rage. First the transit workers, then the garbage men, and now the only folks protecting residents from their local crazies. [NYP, NYT]

• Protestors in swimsuits and men in rabbit costumes go together like MySpace and pedophiles at the Easter Day Parade. [NYDN]

• Wal-Mart will beg, plead, lie, and steal to convince the New York City Council to let them in. [NY Sun]

• NYPD puts up 500 security cameras to monitor crime and terrorism. Dunkin' Donuts sales expected to raise. [NYT]

• Cats top the news yet again, except this time we're interested. A man who hated his neighbor's feline kidnapped it and had it euthanized. Sans permission, natch.. [NYT]

• Even without any wildlife, our fair city is the 11th worst place for people with allergies. [AMNY]