Email Author Wayne Barrett

Awards

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 9, 2008

  "The Book of Sarah (Palin)"

• 2007 - Investigative Reporters and Editors, published November 28, 2007

  "Rudy's Ties to a Terror Sheikh"

• 2007 - Investigative Reporters and Editors, published October 24, 2007

  "Rudy's Pants On Fire"

• 2007 - Investigative Reporters and Editors, published October 31, 2007

  "'No Skeletons in My Closet!'"

• 2007 - Investigative Reporters and Editors, published August 8, 2007

  "Rudy Giuliani's Five Big Lies About 9/11"

• 2007 - Investigative Reporters and Editors, published July 11, 2007

  "Rudy Adopts New Shtick"

• 2007 - Investigative Reporters and Editors, published June 27, 2007

  "No Wafer for Rudy"

• 2007 - Investigative Reporters and Editors, published May 9, 2007

  "The Yankees' Clean-Up Man"

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2002 Stories by Wayne Barrett

• The 2002 Wacko Awards

  published December 24, 2002

  Launched almost 25 years ago, the Wacko Awards are presented periodically to a wide array of nincompoops, boodlers, stumblebums and other... More >>

• Merit Mike Makes Hard Choices

  published December 10, 2002

  It was 8:30 on Saturday morning and Mike Bloomberg, fresh from a stint on the running machine in his nearby townhouse, was at Park and East 68th... More >>

• Pataki's Post-Election Payday

  published December 3, 2002

  Two days after George Pataki was re-elected, the never off-message Governor went off-schedule, secretly slipping away to Essex, New York... More >>

• Riding Rudy's Right-Wing Wave

  published November 19, 2002

  The victory tour for America's hero started way back on February 8 in Georgia, where America's Grand Old Party would eventually achieve its... More >>

• Unfit to Print

  published November 12, 2002

  Two days after Mary Donohue was re-elected as George Pataki's lieutenant governor, her office put out a single-sentence release announcing that... More >>

• Jeb & George

  published October 29, 2002

  Libby Pataki, the governor's wife, is part owner of a canker-ridden parcel of citrus groves in southeast Florida that state and local officials... More >>

• Bad Policy, Big Bucks

  published October 22, 2002

  Every Gubernatorial poll makes the economy the top issue, every economist knows that one way a governor impacts on jobs is by influencing the... More >>

• Getting Greened

  published September 10, 2002

  The ghost of Mark Green haunted the Democratic primary for governor this year, ultimately forcing Andrew Cuomo's stunning retreat. While news... More >>

• Senate for Sale

  published September 3, 2002

  Every once in a while something new actually happens in New York politics. The recent Republican conversions of two former Democrats now running... More >>

• McCall's Mess

  published August 27, 2002

  The most obscure Democratic gubernatorial primary in modern history finally made it onto the front pages. A cardboard-box kingpin with a penchant... More >>

• Bloomy's Bogus Budget

  published July 30, 2002

  Ok, the city is in dire trouble. We've got a new mayor and new council who face daunting deficits and require civic support. Mike Bloomberg has... More >>

• Three Strikes Is Still an Out

  published July 23, 2002

  Thirty-six jurors have heard the case against Charles Schwarz, the "Hero Cop" of tabloid fame in the Abner Louima case, and 36 jurors have voted... More >>

• The Reflective Rudy

  published July 16, 2002

  GIULIANI PARTNERS LLC 5 Times Square Confidential memo to file from R. Giuliani July 15, 2002 In one week I bought a new... More >>

• Getting Away With Murder

  published July 9, 2002

  When George Pataki was a Republican assemblyman in 1990 and Mario Cuomo was running for certain re-election while trying to roll up a record... More >>

• Ticket to Nowhere

  published July 2, 2002

  When George Pataki was 14 years old, he watched his older brother Lou break down in tears at the thought of never making it to Yale. Accepted but... More >>

• Déjà Vu All Over Again

  published June 11, 2002

  With city schools on the verge of the most radical structural change in 33 years, Mike Bloomberg might benefit from a history lesson, minus all... More >>

• The Imaginary Ticket

  published June 4, 2002

  The Pataki coronation at the state Republican convention in Manhattan last week made little news, but one of the governor's comments should have.... More >>

• Scandal Cash

  published May 28, 2002

  In the summer of 1994—when one-term state Senator George Pataki was challenging three-term Governor Mario Cuomo—33 owners, operators,... More >>

• Lobbying for Leniency

  published May 14, 2002

  A web of lobbyist intrigue, with ties at the highest levels of the Pataki administration, surrounds the privately run adult-home industry that... More >>

• Double-Standard Deity

  published May 7, 2002

  By May 1, the Rudolph W. Giuliani Center for Urban Affairs was supposed to have in place the full staff necessary to complete the estimated... More >>

• Malloy's Mess

  published April 30, 2002

  The Dennis Rivera giveaway has revealed just how far state leaders will go to satisfy a powerful labor leader, with George Pataki, Joe Bruno, and... More >>

• A Defining Bloomberg

  published April 23, 2002

  I like Mike. He's certainly more open and informed as mayor than he was as a candidate. I watched him do his budget press conference last... More >>

• Bloomy Indicts Pataki

  published April 9, 2002

  The same day last week that The New York Times published its portrait of George Pataki as "The Postpartisan Governor," the Center for an... More >>

• An Albany Whitewash

  published April 2, 2002

  Nine hours after the ballyhooed 6 a.m. arrest of City Councilman Angel Rodriguez last Thursday, New York State Inspector General Roslynn Mauskopf... More >>

• This Clarence Is No Clown

  published March 26, 2002

  Brooklyn Democratic boss Clarence Norman took over the cover of the Daily News once this week, and was the subject of a combined four full... More >>