Juan Gonzalez

Hip-Hop Artists Arrested in East Harlem Claiming Surveillance by NYPD

Just after 4pm on December 15th, two members of the activist hip-hop group the Welfare Poets, along with four additional males, were arrested at the Wagner-Johnson housing project in East Harlem and charged with trespassing, a misdemeanor. Welfare Poets members Michael Pacheco (a/k/a Rayzer Sharp) a ... More >>

Bloomberg's Three Chefs Cost $245,000

​New York Daily News writer Juan Gonzalez is incensed that while steps to address New York City's troubled budget include "threats of layoffs to thousands of teachers and other city workers, and the deep cuts in basic services," Mayor Michael Bloomberg is using $245,000 in taxpayer money to pa ... More >>

NYC's Computer-System Cash-Dump Disaster

New York City threw away a mountain of cash over a new computer system. Now, finally, someone is going to pay.

CityTime Scandal Contractors Tried to Hire City Critic

​What to do when you're a private computer consultant whose project for the city is excruciatingly over-budget and falling way behind? Hey -- how about this? Offer the city supervisor a job! That's the approach taken by officials of the Virginia-based defense contracting company, Science Appli ... More >>

Letter Shows Bloomberg Slipped Up on CityTime Scam, Not Through the Cracks

​Mayor Bloomberg's "slipped through the cracks" explanation for the massive fraud and cost overruns at the CityTime payroll computerization project was already pretty lame when he gave it. Today it's looking a whole lot lamer. That's because of a tough letter dug out of the cracks of the city ... More >>

Bloomberg News Announces Editorials Reflecting Founder's Beliefs, as CityTime Scandal Blossoms

​ Big day yesterday in Bloomberg Land: First there's the $80 million computer ripoff right under the mayor's nose. If you thought that might have been embarrassing, you thought wrong. The mayor's soon-to-be-world's-largest-media-company also chose yesterday to announce that it will start publi ... More >>

Computer Scamsters Took Mayor Mike to Cleaners for $80M

​If you've been reading the Daily News's Juan Gonzalez , the arrest this morning of a quartet of computer scamsters accused of ripping off a city payroll and time-keeping system for $80 million shouldn't be a big shock. Gonzalez has been banging away at the city's hugely inflated "CityTime" pr ... More >>

City Has $$ for Computer Consultants, Not for Firehouses: Daily News

Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez has a new chapter in his ongoing series on the kind of waste in government that somehow flies below the radar when Team Bloomberg goes looking to cut the budget. Today's episode reveals that the city is paying $3.5 million a year to outside computer consultants who ... More >>

The Hiram Monserrate Vote Wins on Hypocritic Oaths

A hypocrite with plenty of company​We often rejoice that Hypocrisy was not on the original list of seven deadly sins. If it were, we'd all be burning up somewhere. But the continuing saga of Hiram Monserrate -- expelled yesterday by the state senate -- deserves a special place in the Great Hyp ... More >>

Daily News' Bronx Tale: Reputed Mob-Tied Duo Made Out Big in 911 Deal

​The Daily News' Juan Gonzalez (pictured) has part two on the city's bungled effort to create new offices in Brooklyn and the Bronx for the 911 emergency call center and today's episode is a whopper: City officials agreed to pay $46 million for ten acres in the north Bronx to a real estate par ... More >>

The Mayor's Press Pass

The unexamined world of Mike Bloomberg

Swine Flu Stops Catholic Wine-Swilling in Brooklyn. Also: "Black People Hardest Hit" Angle Found

It's a "sign of the times" story, but thankfully not of the "man sells newborn for Beatles: Rock Band" variety. The Brooklyn diocese of the Catholic Chuch may forego one of the nicer innovations of Vatican II -- the passing of the communion cup to worshipers for swigs of the blood of Christ -- for ... More >>

School Daze: Charter Break-in at Harlem P.S.

Back in February, Mayor Bloomberg threatened that there could be "riots in the streets" if mayoral control isn't renewed in Albany, and in today's Daily News, Juan Gonzalez reports the first mini-riot outbreak.The commotion came at P.S. 123 where yesterday workers showed up unannounced and started r ... More >>

School English Test Scores Up; Critics Remain Unconvinced

Mayor Bloomberg happily announced that English scores are up in city schools. 69 percent of students in Grades 3 through 8 met state standards for reading. That doesn't sound so hot, and the statewide figure is 82 percent. But last year the city rate was 58 percent, so that's an 11-point gain, and ... More >>

Pols, Press Party with Sharpton and His Corrupt Network

The governor of New York is having lunch today with a tax dodger who owes the state nearly a million dollars. The mayor is chowing down, too. Tomorrow the vice president will wrap his arms around the same celebrity cheat who stiffed the IRS for nearly $2 million. David Paterson, Mike Bloomberg and ... More >>

News' Juan Gonzalez: Sharpton Got a $500K Present

The odd-ball marriage of Al Sharpton and schools chancellor Joel Klein -- who have been teaming up to tout their version of education reforms since last summer-- resulted in a sweet $500,000 wedding gift for Sharpton's National Action Network, reports the Daily News' indefatigable Juan Gonzalez this ... More >>

Damn Yankee: Alex Rodriguez confesses (kinda), and naturally he wants to now 'help kids'

So Alex Rodriguez finally confessed to having used steroids. What a shocker. He had no choice, because he had so clearly lied previously when he absolutely denied using the muscle-enhancing drugs. But, then, they say that steroids can shrink your balls, so his previous lack of courage is really no ... More >>

E-mails Show City's Tricky Math in Yankee Stadium Deal

Real motherfuckers: AIG still hands out bonuses

The Yanks' Suite Deal With Bloomberg

Yanks Still Got Balls: Double-Dipped on Rent Break

4 State Senate Dems Continue to Defy Leadership

Pinsky Says New Yankee Stadium "A Home Run"; We Cry Foul

Losing Track of Dropouts—and Successes—in New York City Schools

DOE, City Council and Unions all fail to keep tabs on when NYC schools fail - or succede.

Girls, Girls, Girls: Are We Done With The Sex Scandals Yet?

Will the Last Governor to Have a Sex Scandal Please Turn Out the Lights?

TABLOIDED: Barack Obama's "Cheesy" Wisconsin Victory and Fidel Castro's Retirement

Elevator Diplomacy

Yankee Stadium gets a walkway, a politician gets a big donation, and you get a fat bill

Dishonorable Non-Mention: Juan Gonzalez and the Daily News' 9/11 Pulitzer

The Hucksters

The people who tried to sell you the world's most expensive stadium

Jack Newfield, 1938-2004

Fessing Up

How guilty is the Times? Depends on whether you blame the media for the war.

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Editorial Flip-Flop

Daily News Revives Buried Scoop

The Era of the Darn Good

Where Have You Gone, All You Young Joe DiMaggios?

War Riddles

Ten Questions the Media Can't Answer

A Dose of Democracy, Now

WBAI Listeners Get Their Station Back

Back on Track?

‘Same Old Mets’ Look Better With Age

Ergonomics Rules

Employers Are Counting on Bush to Overturn Regs

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Baseball Literary Supplement

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The People's Game

Madison Queer Garden

The Literati and Their Servers

The Two Faces of Carl Bernstein

No Union Label at a PEN Gala

Picket Lines Are Labor’s Free Speech

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