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Dumping

A cortege of senior officials exited the Adams administration in a flash. They all want to spend more time with their families. This yearning for domesticity and familial bonding tends to dovetail …

The Supreme Court is reshaping, and weakening, labor rights

While Kamala Harris must, if elected, ensure the rights of organized labor, the Supreme Court’s influence on labor rights may be equally significant, if not more so. Since the election of Donald …

A man of wealth and questionable taste

William Shakespeare wrote, “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.” Hence, will Americans elect the voice of reason or the voice of treason for president in 2024? And if …

Bubbles

I'd left my utility jar at home and was already late picking up my friend's first-grader grandson to drive him to school. So, when I had to respond to nature's impudent call and the nearest place to …

At the NYPD, the past is prologue

The Adams administration can be aptly described by the oft quoted phrase from the famous poem by Robert Burns, “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” Adams came into office with …

A textbook case of union busting

Leonard Riggio, who transformed Barnes & Noble from its single location on Fifth Avenue into the nation’s largest bookseller, died on Aug. 27, 2024. The obits lionized him for revolutionizing …

Can the system breathe?

​The trial of Daniel Penny begins soon. Two years have passed since the Marine Corps veteran choked Jordan Neely to death on a subway train. Motive of action and degree of intention are yet to be …

Where is Harris’ support for organized labor?

While the National Labor Relations Board gained strength under President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris' election would not guarantee its continued support for organized labor. Upon taking …

As we approach election day, the stakes couldn’t be higher. The MAGA-Republican challenges to the legitimacy of the 2020 elections, January 6 insurrection and the democracy-dismantling revelations …

Sit tight and carry on

In judging matters of grave importance with irreversible suffering in case of error, all evidence must be knowledge-based, and nothing can be known until it is known for certain. Even a laggard …

The City University of New York is among the most essential institutions in New York City. The school’s 25 campuses and quarter-million students reflect the diversity, resilience, strength and …

Project 2025 is a recipe for autocracy

If you saw The Twilight Zone episode entitled “To Serve Man,” I remind you to take heed and “don’t get on that ship” with Donald Trump. In this episode, which originally aired in 1962, the …

Big strides down a short pier?

The strike by the International Longshoremen's Association looms like Armageddon's mushroom cloud. Let's clear the air. Harold J. Daggett Jr., the union's president, is in the pole position to make …

Corruption amongst city officials in New York City is nothing new, but never have the probes into malfeasance by appointed city officials been so widespread as today. Even before the five boroughs …

Too few bags, too much baggage

My first thought was that Boeing had taken over Walgreens, because if you hold their paper bag as though it were a newborn baby, it still splits open like a watermelon hit by an assault rifle. Even …

A first responder double standard: EMTs on food stamps

One of New York City’s long-standing inequities has reached a sickening point: Full-time medical first responders are so underpaid that many now qualify for food stamps and Section 8 housing …

The leopard frog and eastern perch are not alone

What have the Atlantic leopard frog and the eastern pirate perch have in common with optimistic New Yorkers? All are endangered. So is the slimy eel, which is surprising, since legacy politicians are …

Sour cherry tort

A friend of mine, who looked like a vicious caricature from Duck Dynasty, used to answer people who asked why a tough guy like him chose such an unmanly hobby (this was during the pre-enlightenment …

Adams' fidelity to the NYPD getting a severe test

Scandals in the police department seldom bode well for the mayors of New York City. Seventy-five years ago this month, the arrest of a well-known bookmaker by the name of Harry Gross quickly brought …

Shooting the breeze with an assault pen

If numbers won't lie to do our bidding, we must either reinvent mathematical truth, or else reassign public policy makers to duties less controversial than the sanctioned highway robbery of …

The epitome of hypocrisy

In 2020, the NYPD’s Police Benevolent Association, the Fraternal Order of Police and other police organizations across America endorsed Donald Trump for president. In March, the Florida PBA …

The UPOA’s provisional contract is a solid agreement

As president of the United Probation Officers Association, let me set the record straight on behalf of the members who I proudly represent. Let me be clear: while the union’s tentative contract …

Funky analytics

Anyone who thinks that inanimate objects don't have souls, or at least a sense of karma-driven malicious humor, never dropped their keys onto a flat surface of a parking lot, nine yards from an open …

City’s contract offer is unfair to career probation officers

Since our last contract expired in November 2020, New York City probation officers, members of the United Probation Officers Association, have undergone major changes. Work schedules for supervising …

Unions, city pension board failing workers’ moral call

On an early April morning, city civil servants' chants echoed along the otherwise quiet lower Manhattan streets, ricocheting off stone architecture, while their colorful signs and banners with a …

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