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Our all-seeing police commissioner denies that he desires to succeed his biggest fan, Michael Bloomberg. But an April 23 New York Post report, “GOP Greases Wheels for...
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As a New Yorker since 1953, I’ve never witnessed—even under the imperious Mayor Rudolph Giuliani—such wide-ranging attacks on New Yorkers’ fundamental...
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Our police commissioner and his chief cheerleader, the mayor, have forgotten or never learned that the Constitution would not have been allowed to work until the Bill of...
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In more than 60 years reporting on public school districts here and in other cities, I’ve often found students to be useful evaluators of their teachers and...
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Across the nation, more teachers and school systems are discarding standardized collective testing in reading and math—along with the additional class time spent in...
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Since 1958, when I became a reporter at the Voice, I have covered every mayor—including the monarchical Rudy Giuliani—and every police commissioner, but never have...
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Cathie Black was mocked out of the chancellorship, but what of the longtime failing educators who remain: her successor, Dennis Walcott, and the self-styled “Education...
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It’s past time to dig into the often brutish, unconstitutional culture of Ray Kelly’s NYPD. I’m not including all officers in that description. I’ve seen...
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Years ago, when I was interviewing Justice William Brennan in his Supreme Court chambers for my book, Living the Bill of Rights, he suddenly became somber.
"How," he asked,...
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Now that Rupert Murdoch himself is the news, I add to his legend what it was like when he owned the Voice. First, a necessary prelude: The last time I saw him was after he had...
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With his usual glowing self-assurance, multi-term mayor Michael Bloomberg continually proclaims that his administration will be judged by his performance as our Education...
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For the future of this and any city—and its children—reporting inside the schools can be journalism’s most important beat. Among New York’s daily...
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On his first full day in office, the successor to Cathie Black and Joel Klein told a City Council hearing: “I believe in what we’re doing and I haven’t had any...
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Our senior senator, to whom President Obama pays considerable heed, is vigorously campaigning for our police commissioner to become the FBI director when the incumbent, Robert...
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Cathie Black has made it clear by now to more and more parents and their children that her commitment is to Michael Bloomberg—not them. Or as Michael Daly puts it:...
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“You can’t separate a 28 percent graduate rate in New York City of black males with the fact that 50 percent of black males in New York City are unemployed.”...
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From his first purchase of the mayoralty, Michael Bloomberg pledged that his legacy as mayor would be judged by his reform of the school system. Now, choosing Cathie Black,...
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In 1953, when I came to New York from Boston to be the New York editor of Down Beat, then the bible of the jazz community, I learned quickly how hard it is for many players to...
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In the old days, reporters, in the pages of the Voice, went after one another. Readers enjoyed taking sides in these civil wars, and we ourselves sometimes discovered what we...
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Having previously congratulated Governor David Paterson for signing into law the removal from NYPD computerized databases the names and personal information of many thousands...
