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Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

  • News

    February 8, 2012

    Jazz Hayden and the Fight Against Stop-and-Frisk

    An unlikely activist's battle with the NYPD's frisky business

  • News

    July 20, 2011

    Citizen Bloomberg

    How our mayor has given us the business

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Barrett: More Unsavory Characters on Snyder's Campaign Money List

    ​Yesterday, Wayne Barrett began to uncover the unsavory characters who have helped fuel Leslie Crocker Snyder's campaign to be the next Manhattan District Attorney. Now, in part two, Barrett continues that list, focusing this time on political conservatives who are backing Snyder... Richard G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Stringer Aide Out After Facebook Posts Denouncing Gates, Supporting Racial Profiling

    ​It's getting to the point where if you tell people the truth about the black crime menace, you lose your right to a government job. Here's the latest outrage from the sensitivity police: An aide to Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer has resigned after it was revealed that she made com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    Welfare Goes Up a Couple of Bucks

    Good news, freeloaders -- your welfare checks are going up by as much as 38 dollars! The Times reports the monthly stipend for a family of four just went up from $375.70 to $413.70. It's the first such increase in nineteen years. Diabetic single recipient Georgeanna Hicks, 54, gets an extra $13 t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    City Money Made EZ: Yassky Web Site Offers Answers

    Here's an early and useful dividend from the four-way race for the Democratic nomination for city comptroller: Candidate David Yassky, the Brooklyn city councilman who's been eager for an electoral promotion for several years now, today released his own Web site of city budget info. Yassky calls his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    No One Really Likes the MTA Plan

    Governor Paterson greeted communters at the Bryant Park subway station this morning, in celebration of the MTA bailout plan that Albany passed last night, though no one seems in a celebratory mood -- not even the Governor. "The one thing that I learned through this process," Paterson said, "is that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    Post Bemoans New Taxes on "Joes," "Well-Offs," and "Single Guy"

    From the department of ICWUDT: the Post howls in outrage at the new state taxes to be suffered by three specific classes of New Yorkers: the "Average Joes," the "Well-Off Family," and the "Single Guy." They make their best case for the Joes, first by putting a picture of black people in their graph ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2009

    Rudy Redux? Giuliani "Now More Than Ever," Says Mastro

    With Governor Paterson at a low ebb and Kirsten Gillibrand's future popularity under the manipulation of New York's Democratic elite (and others) uncertain, some noise is being made for the return of Rudolph Giuliani. Randy Mastro, Giuliani's former deputy mayor and close aide, told the Observer, "I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2008

    Gelinas: Don't Take That Federal Money, NY, It's a Trap (Updated)

    Every New York governmental agency has its hand out for government largesse from tax-and-spend liberal Obama. At the New York Post, the Manhattan Institute's Nicole Gelinas says they shouldn't. It's "a bad idea for wealthy cities like New York to depend on federal policies for rational infrastructur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    48% of New Yorkers Have Trouble Paying for Food, Says Food Bank

    Every New York governmental agency has its hand out for government largesse from tax-and-spend liberal Obama. At the New York Post, the Manhattan Institute's Nicole Gelinas says they shouldn't. It's "a bad idea for wealthy cities like New York to depend on federal policies for rational infrastructur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2008

    Son of Son of Sam: amNY Considers Possible 70s New York Repeat

    Every New York governmental agency has its hand out for government largesse from tax-and-spend liberal Obama. At the New York Post, the Manhattan Institute's Nicole Gelinas says they shouldn't. It's "a bad idea for wealthy cities like New York to depend on federal policies for rational infrastructur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2008

    Morning Papers: Sunset, Hip Rebbe, Bad Club, Mating Teachers, QM2 in SI

    Every New York governmental agency has its hand out for government largesse from tax-and-spend liberal Obama. At the New York Post, the Manhattan Institute's Nicole Gelinas says they shouldn't. It's "a bad idea for wealthy cities like New York to depend on federal policies for rational infrastructur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2008

    NYC RFD: NYPD Bowls, Kids Fail, Gay-Bash in S.I., Rapist At Large

    Every New York governmental agency has its hand out for government largesse from tax-and-spend liberal Obama. At the New York Post, the Manhattan Institute's Nicole Gelinas says they shouldn't. It's "a bad idea for wealthy cities like New York to depend on federal policies for rational infrastructur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2008

    Movin' Out: Rangel Leaves Office, Keeps Rest of Suite Deal

    Every New York governmental agency has its hand out for government largesse from tax-and-spend liberal Obama. At the New York Post, the Manhattan Institute's Nicole Gelinas says they shouldn't. It's "a bad idea for wealthy cities like New York to depend on federal policies for rational infrastructur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2007

    Bloomberg Unveils Coney Redevelopment Plan

    Every New York governmental agency has its hand out for government largesse from tax-and-spend liberal Obama. At the New York Post, the Manhattan Institute's Nicole Gelinas says they shouldn't. It's "a bad idea for wealthy cities like New York to depend on federal policies for rational infrastructur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2007

    Congestion Pricing Panel Named

    Every New York governmental agency has its hand out for government largesse from tax-and-spend liberal Obama. At the New York Post, the Manhattan Institute's Nicole Gelinas says they shouldn't. It's "a bad idea for wealthy cities like New York to depend on federal policies for rational infrastructur ... More >>

  • Specials

    August 7, 2007

    Letters

    Every New York governmental agency has its hand out for government largesse from tax-and-spend liberal Obama. At the New York Post, the Manhattan Institute's Nicole Gelinas says they shouldn't. It's "a bad idea for wealthy cities like New York to depend on federal policies for rational infrastructur ... More >>

  • News

    December 26, 2006

    Kick Out the Jams

    Will a toll booth at the corner of 60th and Fifth solve midtown's traffic nightmare?

  • News

    November 28, 2006

    Spying on Big Brother

    Now you can find out if you're being surveilled by the FBI or the NYPD.

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2006

    Morning Report 1/20/06
    Hearing From the Wrong People

    Now you can find out if you're being surveilled by the FBI or the NYPD.

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2005

    A Union Town Loses Patience With the Strike

    Now you can find out if you're being surveilled by the FBI or the NYPD.

  • News

    March 23, 2004

    The Puppet Chancellor

    Joel Klein claimed that the axed 'social promotion' dissenters resigned. This was a lie.

  • News

    October 28, 2003

    Vote Yes for Nonpartisan Elections

    Bloomberg's Proposal Is Better Than Our Sham System

  • News

    October 29, 2002

    The High-Stakes Testing Trap

    Rising Standards, Rising Dropouts

  • News

    October 22, 2002

    How Does His Dole Grow?

    Bloomberg Balances Needs—His and the Poor's

  • News

    March 26, 2002

    Pontorno's Complaint

    Ex-Murdoch Employee Reveals 'Secret Society'

  • News

    February 26, 2002

    The Spunky New Face of the 'Post'

    Murdoch Picks His Mates

  • Specials

    January 15, 2002

    Letters

    Murdoch Picks His Mates

  • News

    December 19, 2000

    Stay of Execution

    Activists, Wary of Bush, Say Black Federal Prosecutor Helped Give NYPD a Reprieve

  • NYC Life

    November 21, 2000

    A Class Act

    Happy Birthday, ‘Lingua Franca’

  • News

    August 1, 2000

    Nation

    Happy Birthday, ‘Lingua Franca’

  • News

    August 1, 2000

    Uncle Shrub's Cabin

    Black Church Backers Sing Hosannahs

  • News

    December 7, 1999

    Sanctioned Sadism

    Why the Right Needs the Homeless

  • News

    November 3, 1998

    The GLAAD Hand of Coors

    Why the Right Needs the Homeless

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