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City slippery on Medicare

To the editor: The hearing in State Supreme Court Appellate Division on the city’s appeal of the injunction blocking retirees from being forced into a Medicare Advantage plan (“City attorney, …

Do better for EMS

To the editor: Regarding “ Adams, Kavanagh Express Support for EMS Pay Parity ” (The Chief, this issue): Actions speak louder than words. This past summer, the Mayor's Office of Labor Relations …

No due process for DC 37 retirees

To the editor:  The administratorship that AFSCME President Lee Saunders imposed on the District Council 37 Retirees Association is not merited and should be lifted immediately. No financial …

Bogus charge

To the editor: Daniel Penny should be confident he will beat the manslaughter charges in connection with the choking death of Jordan Neely on the subway last May. If he has capable attorneys …

Poor planning

To the editor: Governor Kathy Hochul’s and Mayor Eric Adams’ agreement to support payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs) for three new office buildings to help finance the new $10 billion Port …

No justice

To the editor: I think it is unconscionable that the city of New York wants to reduce the benefits of people who worked for them for at least a quarter of their lives and yet give people who entered …

No relief

To the editor: Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine's proposed legislation to increase public citizen access to bathrooms in all five boroughs reminded me of the old subway bathrooms.  There …

Illogic underground

To the editor: Law and order dog whistles are the opposite of reimagining public safety. Republicans have used them since Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign. They are the hallmarks of politically …

Misbehavin’

To the editor: To the tune of Perry Como’s “It’s Impossible,” with apologies: It’s impossible Tell the sun to leave the sky It’s just impossible It’s impossible for Donald Trump not to …

It’s a crime

To the editor: After allegedly pushing his girlfriend off a subway platform into the path of a train, causing injuries that made it necessary for her legs to be amputated, Christian Valdez is finally …

Break EMS’s pattern

To the editor: It's mind-boggling that the FDNY emergency medical technicians and medics and their unions have been pushed to file suit to get what they deserve following the decades-long inaction of …

A guy named me

To the editor: On March 9, Donald Trump held another unhinged rally in Rome, Georgia. Speaking to his throng, he told them that law enforcement is being weaponized against “Joe Biden’s top and …

Stupid as stupid does

To the editor: A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals made the obvious ruling, that a president is not immune from prosecution for crimes committed while he was in office. After all, if a …

United on health

To the editor: The Council of Municipal Retiree Organizations (COMRO) opposes AFSCME taking control of the DC 37 Retirees Association. We regret that AFSCME's national leadership took this extreme …

Adams' poor policies

To the editor: New York has extremes of income and wealth. The Economic Policy Institute, using the latest data from 2022, found that our state has the greatest concentration of wealth in the country …

None of the above

To the editor: Without discussing any of the issues that caused 100,000 Michigan voters to vote “uncommitted” in the Michigan primary, I believe Donald Trump will probably win the presidential …

Struggle continues

To the editor: While we understand the seriousness of missing federal reporting requirements, we are distressed to learn that, without notice or warning, AFSCME has placed the DC37 Retiree …

Serious oversight

To the editor: I am a DC 37 retiree. Imagine my surprise when I received an email that said the union’s retirees association was placed under emergency administratorship by AFSCME, the parent …

Disunion

To the editor: Frantz Fanon, the Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist prominent in Algeria’s independence struggle, said it all! When the oppressed achieve victory, they turn around and do the same thing to …

Takeover poses multiple questions

To the editor: After reading Crystal Lewis' article, " DC 37 Retirees Association taken over by AFSCME ” (The Chief, this issue) the question that occurs to me as well is: "Why did it take a severe …

Who is watching the store?

To the editor: As a DC37 member and retired staff member of DC 37, it is heartbreaking to read that AFSCME has placed the union’s Retirees Association under administratorship.  What is the …

Not the ideal image

To the editor: I certainly hope that the bill introduced last year by State Senator Brad Holyman-Sigal and Assemblywoman Karines Reyes making it illegal to alter models' images without their consent …

Trump, you’re no Alexei Navalny

On Feb. 16, Alexei Navalny, a courageous outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin died in a Siberian gulag.   Immediately, President Joe Biden stated, “there is no doubt that the death of …

A Nobel for buffoonery

To the editor: Donald Trump, a Putin fan, compares himself to the Russian patriot, Alexei Navalny, who was murdered by Vladimir Putin. Trump said he sees himself as a victim, not unlike …

MTA funding in danger

To the editor: The recent announcement by the MTA that due to ongoing litigation against implementation of congestion pricing, $15 billion in capital projects within the 2020-2024 five-year capital …

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