Snow Much For That Theory . . .

December’s snow bungling probably didn’t have that much to do with Stephen Goldsmith’s recent resignation:

A powerful aide to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg resigned from City Hall because he was arrested in Washington for his role in a heated altercation with his wife, according to a person familiar with the account.

Stephen Goldsmith, who oversaw the city’s most visible agencies as Mr. Bloomberg’s deputy mayor for operations, was arrested in his town house on July 30 and spent two days in a Washington jail — a series of events that Mr. Goldsmith reported to City Hall almost immediately.

But when the Bloomberg Administration announced Mr. Goldsmith’s resignation five days later, the mayor’s office said that the deputy mayor was leaving the administration “to pursue private-sector opportunities in infrastructure finance.”

Thankfully, there was a hurricane this month . . .