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Transcript of President Obama's Second Inaugural Address

Here is President Obama's second inaugural address as prepared for delivery on Jan. 21, 2013.Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, Members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: Each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring ... More >>

Obamacare's Med-School Debt Problem

Would-be primary care doctors could take a financial hit from health care reform, but most students say it's worth it to fix a broken system

Manhattan Millionaires Dupe Government Into Giving Them Nearly $200K In Welfare Benefits

A couple of Manhattan millionaires were arrested this morning on charges that they ripped off the government to the tune of nearly $200,000 over the past six years by pretending to be poor in order to collect welfare benefits.We're not sure what's more disturbing: the fact that millionaires are alle ... More >>

Oops! 37 Percent of U.S. Births Unintended

In 1982, 37 percent of U.S. births were unintended, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And guess what? In 2010, 37 percent of U.S. births, the latest year for CDC stats, were ALSO unintended. Meaning: Public health authorities have kindasortaTOTALLY failed at preventing ... More >>

Mitt Romney Might Pick a Woman Running Mate. What's His Record With The Ladies?

Team Romney might pick a woman as Mitt's running mate, reports now indicate. As the Atlantic Wire's Elspeth Reeve pointed out, this marks a drastic shift from the campaign's previous "no more Palins" / "boring white guy" approach to potential veeps, which "appeared to rule out not just candidates w ... More >>

Obama's Affordable Care Act: What Does It Mean for Women?

Goddamn, have we got some good news for your ladyparts! As the Voice's inimitable Steven Thrasher reported this morning, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, claiming that the ACA is constitutionally kosher as a tax. Almost immediately after, Planned Pa ... More >>

Jewish Guild For The Blind Hires Back Music Therapist For Seniors After Voice Investigation

We've got some good news to report this Friday: the Jewish Guild for the Blind has hired back its music therapist, Debbie Moran, after a cover story and an on-going series in the Voice highlighted problems at the nonprofit organization. In March the Voice reported how Moran, who had worked with eld ... More >>

The First Occupy Wall Street Legislation?

​In the post-occupation hangover, a (or the) big question is whether or not and to what extent Occupy Wall Street's message will have managed to translate into actual policy. OWS itself has strenuously refused to get involved in coming up with any legislation, since the movement wants to esche ... More >>

New Book Alleges JFK Really Didn't Want LBJ to be President

via Wikipedia​According to a new book of interviews with Jacqueline Kennedy, the former First Lady said that her husband openly doubted Lyndon Johnson's ability to be president. The interviews, which were conducted by historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in the year following JFK's assassination, ... More >>

Colleges Forced to Explain Why They Are So Damn Expensive

​Over 500 colleges will have to submit reports to the government explaining tuition hikes, CNN reports. The Department of Education published a list this morning of schools that had the highest tuition increases over the last three years. Both private and public institutions are included and w ... More >>

Queens Woman Leaves $250K to Harold Camping; al Qaeda's "Military Brain" Killed

​The family of a woman in Queens is furious after she left nearly $250,000 in her will to bogus Rapture-propagating pastor Harold Camping. Doris Schmitt was 78 and died weeks before the Rapture was supposed to happen. Her family was shocked to discover that she'd left most of her life savings to C ... More >>

Today in El Diario: An "Unpardonable" Budget

​Today in El Diario, that newspaper at your bodega you always wondered about... Reacting to the New State Budget New Yorkers have varying opinions on the tentative $132.5 billion in state budget cuts, according to the Spanish-language daily. Generally, though, they disapprove of the proposed ... More >>

Pedro Espada and Son Indicted on Charges of Embezzling $500K

​Pedro Espada Jr., 57, the outgoing Bronx state senator, Democrat, sushi-lover, has been indicted along with his son, Pedro Gautier Espada, on federal charges of embezzling more than $500,000 from their nonprofit, the Soundview HealthCare Network, reports the New York Times City Room blog.

Sidebar: Mexican Macro-Economics

Sidebar: Whose Dole Is It Anyway?

Before Roe v. Wade: Fighting Over Abortion in Albany

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 25, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 12 A holy war in Albany for the 'Right to Life' By Robin Reisig The New York State legislature is probably going to practice medicine again this spring. Abortion medicine. Catholics opposed to killing "th ... More >>

Moe Tucker On Her Tea Party Inclinations: "Anyone Who Knows Me Knows That I'm Not A Fool, A Racist, A Nazi"

​So TV-news footage of ex-Velvet Underground drummer Moe Tucker bemoaning our march toward socialism at a Tea Party rally surfaced online recently, triggering much dismay and "All Tomorrow's Tea Parties" pun warfare. Our good friends at the Riverfront Times in St. Louis tracked Tucker down at ... More >>

Peppy Grannies Dance to the Supremes Against Healthcare Cuts -- Best Protest Ever (Video)

​"Stop! In the name of health, Don't cut my Medicare, Think it o-o-ver." Bryant Park's lunch crowd got quite a show today as a troupe of grannies and their supporters adapted The Supremes to draw attention (and a crowd of about 100) to stopping government cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Sec ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo's Biggest Rival Won't Be the G.O.P.

It's Shelly Silver and the old-school Dems in his race to Governor

Paterson Says He'll Cut $1.6 Billion All by Himself

Well and truly fed up with the inactive legislature, Governor Paterson claims he can cut $1.6 billion from the budget deficit by executive fiat. He seems safe from accusations of Stalinism in this instance, as the cuts are said to be mainly gleaned from administrative cost savings. Some of the pa ... More >>

Paterson proposes cut in anti-smoking funds

​Among the emergency measures Governor Paterson is proposing to close New York's budget hole is an additional $10 million cut in the state's anti-smoking program, bringing funding down to $58 million from $85 million a year ago. According to Russ Sciandra of the Center for a Tobacco Free New Y ... More >>

Liveblogging the Obama Health Care Speech

​ 8:05. The look of surprise Hillary Clinton uses when she greets people in crowds makes her look like she's trying to wake herself up. We wonder if she has a callous on her cheek from getting kissed. Whoops, Brian Williams said "death panels" was bogus! Liberalmediabias! Do a shot! 8:11. ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo Cracks Down on Fake Internet Reviews, Medicaid Fraud

As you can tell by our commenters, we appreciate the free exchange of ideas at Runnin' Scared even when it runs (as it inevitably does) critical of us. Some villains, however, would rig the internet game with sock-puppetry and fake praise for themselves. But they need have a care for Andrew Cuomo w ... More >>

IBO Finds NYC Budget About $1 Billion Worse Than Mayor Does (Updated)

Mayor Bloomberg's getting really creative in his attempts in stim the city's failing economy: today he, Anna Wintour, Vera Wang and others announce that they'll hold "Fashion's Night Out" on Thursday, September 10, and call on rag traders "to keep their doors open late." They claim over 100 stores ... More >>

Barrett: If Murdoch and Zuckerman are Whining, is the State Budget Really So Bad?

News flash! The state budget that's been so trashed in the tabloids does loads of good things you've heard next to nothing about. Whenever the rich are taxed, the only media contest in town is who will howl louder -- Rupert or Mort. Both are such class enemies of their own readers that, in a budget ... More >>

Latest Budget: OK, Taxes on the Rich After All

Governor Paterson announced a "budget agreement" with legislative leaders on Sunday. He says this agreement closes the state's budget gap -- which he found to be $2.2 billion bigger than expected last week -- and "stabilizes our finances, and institutes critical reforms that will help eliminate wast ... More >>

Paterson Angers Mayor and Greens, But Shows Gays Some Love

Governor Paterson's rotten week isn't ending much better than it started. Despite pledging to cut his own salary by 10 percent to show some sensitivity to the battered fortunes of his state, he's still getting beaten up -- Mayor Bloomberg criticized him for reducing the amount of Medicaid money the ... More >>

Stimulus for Atlantic Yards? New Depression Suggests Not

New York state will get some kind of stimulus money, but as a final bill hasn't been written yet, sources vary on how much assistance we'll get. Newsday says "at least" $20.5 billion; the Times says "more than $21 billion." The Jamestown Post-Journal says "$12.6 Billion in Direct Budget Relief," r ... More >>

Paterson Presents Senator Gillibrand

Your new Senator with Al D'Amato (l.) "So it's August the 14th, 2003," says Governor Paterson, "and I am going to meet a lawyer who is going to be meeting me in an office building in Manhatan." (He wanted her not to run for Congress in '04, as she had planned, but the state senate.) "All the light ... More >>

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 >>

Paterson Proposes $2 Billion in Cuts in Health Care, Schools, Civil Service, SUNY/CUNY

More Working New Yorkers Go Hungry: Study

No Wafer for Rudy

Giuliani campaigns as a Catholic, but he's on the outs with God

Actual Poor People Rate Bloomy's Poverty Plan

Roe v. No

The fight over Alito misses the daily defeat of legal abortion

'Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price'

No Choice

The 'culture of life' could become real life

The Suicide of Mr. A

A Mentally Ill Inmate Slips Through the Cracks—Into the Path of a Subway Train

Pataki's Prattle

Job-Jingo Governor Proposes 'State-Killing' Budget

Scandal Cash

Adult-Home Barons Purchased Pataki Inside Track

Mayor’s Choice

Bloomberg Backs a Bold New Abortion-Training Plan

A 10-Point Plan for Bloomy

How the Newly Elected Mayor Can Begin Reviving a Wounded City

Music

Towering Expectations

A Community Fights for a SoHa Landmark

Competing With Cancer

Loft Law Limbo

Artists Fret As Albany Fiddles

'No One Decides To Be Destitute'

How One New Yorker Came To Commit the 'Crime' of Poverty

Train Runs Over Rudy

Mayor Stands Up For City, Gets Clobbered By Runaway Commuter Tax Cut

Pop Up Pill

Why is Big Brother in My Bedroom?

School Daze

Fast Times at Cyber Senior High