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    January 4, 2012

    This Week in the Voice: Air Safety on the Cheap; Are Unpaid Internships Legal?

    In the Voice's first issue of 2012, Nick Pinto writes about airport security contractors, like Prince Jackson, who make minimum wage and have no health insurance or sick days -- yet are responsible for keeping the terminals safe. "The scene today at airport-terminal security doesn't look so differen ... More >>

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    February 16, 2010

    Actual Honest-to-God New Rides Coming to Coney in May, New Coasters in 2011

    Photo by Neil deMause​In what's becoming a bit of a Coney Island tradition, City Hall officials shlepped out to Brooklyn in a slushstorm today to make the long-rumored announcement that the Italian firm Zamperla has been tapped to open a new amusement park in Coney to replace the dearly depart ... More >>

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    February 3, 2010

    New Yankee Stadium Helps Lift Bronx to Poorest, Hungriest Place in America

    Our own Neil deMause, who literally wrote the book on the subject, has repeatedly tried to show what a boondoggle stadium-building can be for cities and neighborhoods. Here's new evidence of what the new Yankee Stadium has brought to The Bronx. Not only is the borough home to one of the poorest con ... More >>

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    November 27, 2009

    Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    ​ Twitpic via DPixel. It was a short week but a merry one, with or without a vodka infused turkey. Now that Thanksgiving has been properly ruined, thanks to the diabolical War on Thanksgiving, and Black Friday has passed without fatalities, we descend into Xmas, which has apparently been mad ... More >>

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    October 9, 2009

    Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    ​Twitpic by Paris Hilton. "Bentley was so cute last night. Carnival is such a fun place to go. A must see place when you go to New York." What? Oh. The week started with rightbloggers cheering President Obama's for losing the Olympics and ends with them booing him for winning the Nobel Peace ... More >>

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    August 21, 2009

    Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    ​ Museum of Natural History. Twitpic by ashelamb. The week was hot as hell -- which, a quick scan of our stories reveals, is an apt comparison. In a tribute to democracy, people with guns started following around President Obama. Busybodies were all over Michelle Obama's butt. Old peo ... More >>

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    March 13, 2009

    Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    Where the magic happens. As Mom used to say as she filled our juice glass with Four Roses, what a week! The Go John Galt nuts threatened a "wealth producers" strike, though some of their numbers seemed not to have much wealth production to speak of. (Many other Americans scaled back their produc ... More >>

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    March 12, 2009

    Audio: Dominic Recchia Yells At Coney Island Hearing

    If you saw Neil deMause's coverage of last night's hilarious Coney Island hearing, you may have wondered if his rendering of concilmember Domenic Recchia's rant -- in which he informed Brooklyn's Community Board 13 that "I -- Domenic M. Recchia Jr. -- personally spoke to Mayor Michael Bloomberg abou ... More >>

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    February 11, 2009

    Tolling Bridges, Taxing Rich, Chaining City Workers to Desks Among City's Budget Options

    This morning the city's Independent Budget Office issued its annual Budget Options document, a sprawling list of ways for the city to either save money or raise revenue. In past years, this was the kind of thing that only got policy wonks' hearts a-flutter; now, with the city staring down the barre ... More >>

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    January 21, 2009

    This Week in the Voice: Pazz & Jop!

    Catch up on a year's worth of musicology with the Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, now in its 36th year of goading the nation's top parsers to struggle over the higher meaning of sonic culture. Review the singles top-1,761 and albums top-1,693, see how your favorite critics voted, and attend the deep thou ... More >>

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    January 16, 2009

    Yankees, Mets Tax-Free Bonds Approved

    Remember those generously-termed bonds the city wanted to give our beloved Mets and Yankees for their stadium boondoggles, about which comptroller William Thompson and some others have been complaining? Neil deMause informs us they have been approved by the Industrial Development Agency board. On th ... More >>

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    November 24, 2008

    Astroland Packs It In (Updated)

    Remember those generously-termed bonds the city wanted to give our beloved Mets and Yankees for their stadium boondoggles, about which comptroller William Thompson and some others have been complaining? Neil deMause informs us they have been approved by the Industrial Development Agency board. On th ... More >>

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    August 11, 2008

    More Love for Summer Streets: A Thousand Bikes Bloom in Manhattan

    Remember those generously-termed bonds the city wanted to give our beloved Mets and Yankees for their stadium boondoggles, about which comptroller William Thompson and some others have been complaining? Neil deMause informs us they have been approved by the Industrial Development Agency board. On th ... More >>

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    September 7, 2007

    Rally Sunday to Save Astroland

    Remember those generously-termed bonds the city wanted to give our beloved Mets and Yankees for their stadium boondoggles, about which comptroller William Thompson and some others have been complaining? Neil deMause informs us they have been approved by the Industrial Development Agency board. On th ... More >>

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    April 3, 2007

    Letters

    Remember those generously-termed bonds the city wanted to give our beloved Mets and Yankees for their stadium boondoggles, about which comptroller William Thompson and some others have been complaining? Neil deMause informs us they have been approved by the Industrial Development Agency board. On th ... More >>

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    July 7, 2006

    Audio: Reality vs. Welfare Regs

    Remember those generously-termed bonds the city wanted to give our beloved Mets and Yankees for their stadium boondoggles, about which comptroller William Thompson and some others have been complaining? Neil deMause informs us they have been approved by the Industrial Development Agency board. On th ... More >>

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    February 10, 2004

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    October 14, 2003

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    March 26, 2002

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    January 15, 2002

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    January 1, 2002

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    December 4, 2001

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    November 6, 2001

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    August 21, 2001

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    July 31, 2001

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    June 12, 2001

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    May 22, 2001

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    May 1, 2001

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    April 3, 2001

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    March 13, 2001

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    January 23, 2001

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    November 21, 2000

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    October 24, 2000

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    October 3, 2000

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    August 22, 2000

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    August 15, 2000

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    July 25, 2000

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    June 13, 2000

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    May 30, 2000

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    May 23, 2000

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    April 25, 2000

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    April 4, 2000

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    February 29, 2000

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    February 22, 2000

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    February 15, 2000

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    January 18, 2000

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    December 21, 1999

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    December 7, 1999

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    November 23, 1999

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    March 9, 1999

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