To the editor: With the death of Vietnam war hero and patriotic American lawyer, Robert Mueller, who headed the FBI for 12 years, evoked this response from our draft-dodging, hate-filled President Donald Trump: “Robert Mueller just died....
To the editor: It is refreshing when the city’s legal apparatus can own up to mistakes it made in the justice system, which have regrettably been made at the taxpayer’s expense. The Law Department is moving forward to stop it’s representation of...
On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King delivered a prophetic speech at Riverside Church: “Beyond Vietnam – a Time to Break the Silence.” Could he criticize the “…violence of the oppressed in the [Northern] ghettos without having first spoken...
To be or not to be: that is the question. Is it nobler to endure the hardships and misfortunes of life, or to confront and overcome them by taking action? Democracies depend not only on fair elections but also on public trust in their fairness....
To the editor Yes, Thomas Curley, common sense is not common. You certainly lack it. Alex Pretti had been disarmed and was being held down when he was shot dead. Anybody with common sense and morality knows that is murder. Nothing Pretti had done...
To the editor: Nations don’t die because of skimpy military power and flagging economic accumulation. Our nation did just fine with very little of those supposed necessities in our early days. Nations die because of citizen ignorance, apathy,...
To the editor: On March 17th, Joe Kent, a one-time rising MAGA star, resigned as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. In his resignation, Kent wrote “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started...
To the editor: Under the 2018 Supreme Court ruling in favor of Illinois child support specialist Mark Janus, non-members of public sector unions are not obligated to pay union dues. The "logic" is that if a worker disagrees with any of the...
To the editor: So, you think America knows what it’s doing because of all its high-tech brilliance? Well, when it comes to low-tech, we are totally Neanderthal. South Korea’s President was just sentenced to life in prison for leading an...
To the editor I knew! I knew! I knew! Michael Gorman would have something to say after Trump said he would like the Medal of Honor. Let's go back in time. Harry S. Truman states, "I would rather have a Medal of Honor than be the President of the...
To the editor: In response Mr. Richard Warren's article on Murder is Murder as I said in response to you before guns do not belong at unlawful protests, and if Alex Pretti thought different shame on him. As it is said, common sense is not so...
To the editor: In late winter 1980, I would’ve chuckled politely and considered you delusional if you’d said that the disco hit “Y.M.C.A.” would become a signature song for an American president and an anthem of the Iranian revolution 40 years...
To the editor: In 2015, New York City settled the Nunez class action lawsuit alleging excessive force by Rikers Island correction officers against inmates. Since then, these officers have not only had to deal with increased discipline,...
To the editor: A few weeks back Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address. Trump bloviated for an hour and forty-seven minutes with his usual mix of lies, finger-pointing, dog whistles and self-aggrandization. What...
To the editor: On July 13, 1944, Anne Frank wrote in her diary, “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” The next month, Nazis arrested everyone in her Secret Annex. Less than a year later, Anne...
To the editor: Trump is President of the United States of Vice. MAGA has a really obvious set of bad habits guiding its movement. MAGA promotes mass ignorance (trust in autocrats), political force (ICE), dishonesty (lying about the 2020...
To the editor: Overall violent crime is down in NYC, but half of all killings have happened in one borough, the Bronx. When I retired from the NYPD, I worked many years in the Bronx. One day on the Bx21 bus, a loud argument broke out between a man and a women with a baby carriage...
To the editor: The Chief’s coverage of the Municipal Labor Committee’s “selling” of members’ prescription drug data to EmblemHealth and United Healthcare for $100 million in savings (Feb. 27, “As part of cost-saving plan, MLC may share city...
Disrespect aimed at police was foreshadowed by detainee disrespect toward correction officers and the lack of political support for the Department of Correction's uniformed force.
To the editor: Mayor Zohan Mamdani needs to be asked why raiding the Retirees Health Benefit Trust Fund again, this time for $229 million, is going to close a $5.4 billion deficit. It's bad enough that mayors and union leaders have been willing...
The president “will attack Iran in the not too distant future because it will help him win the election," he “will attack Iran, in some form, prior to the election," he “will at some point attack Iran to save face," he “will someday attack Iran...
My name is Donald J. Trump. I am the President of the U.S.A. Voters elected me to save the day from the horrors of liberalism’s song. Dance to the lute all ye oppressors, for Trump is the man, from shore to sea. A champion of the American...
To the editor: One thing that those suffering through Donald Trump’s 2-hour State of the Union performance may have missed is a comment he mumbled after a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor was announced. Trump mumbled the...
To the editor: My name must be everywhere! Now we learn why Trump has been illegally withholding $16 billion in Congressionally appropriated infrastructure funds for New York City’s Gateway Tunnel. He wants to trade release of those funds for Congress renaming...
In 2016, the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan fiscal watchdog organization, had an op-ed in the Huffington Post titled “Make NYC’S Retiree Health Benefits Trust More Trustworthy.” Concern was expressed that the Trust had been raided for...