Subject: Wayne Barrett

• Warning: Check for the Union Label

  June 20, 2007

• Justice for Sale in Brooklyn

  January 13, 2007

• The National Review Says Barrett's Reporting Is 'Meticulous'

  August 24, 2007

• Barrett Talks Rudy's Terror Sheikh Ties on MSNBC

  November 29, 2007

• Giving Credit Where It's Due

  December 3, 2007

• Giving Credit Where It's Due Pt. II

  December 4, 2007

• Possible Fossella Replacement Needs to Answer for Deadly Patronage

  June 24, 2008

• Wayne Barrett Strafes the Palin Record on Keith Olbermann's 'Countdown'

  October 15, 2008

• Carolyn Maloney: Barrett Had "Best Story" on NY Senate Selection

  Governor Paterson bailed on an interview today, complaining that he felt faint. Could be the burden of choosing Hillary Clinton's replacement -- which he said he'd do after tomorrow's inauguration -- is getting to him. Some politicians and press are beginning to tumble to what the Voice's Wayne Barrett figured out earlier -- that Paterson has motive to stroke Mayor Bloomberg by appointing his buddy Caroline Kennedy to the Senate. Senate hopeful Rep. Carolyn Maloney told the Post's Fred Dicker t

  January 19, 2009

• This Week in the Voice

  You may have heard of the former Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, Judith Kaye. But do you know the man who replaced her, Jonathan Lippman? Do you know he never practiced as an attorney, and barely served as a judge? So how'd he get appointed to this exalted position? Connections, baby -- chief among them that of Assembly fixer Sheldon Silver. Wayne Barrett has the story. Read it and weep. You probably also know about Kirsten Gillibrand, and that for a New York Senator, she's pretty tight

  February 11, 2009

• George Pataki for Senate?

  George Pataki has met with the head of the National Republican Senate Campaign Committee and is apparently considering a run for the Senate. Maybe those weak poll numbers for Kirsten Gillibrand have encouraged him. The free-spending former governor once had presidential ambitions, but those were different times, and it would be hard to defend him in the current environment on grounds of financial stewardship; as Wayne Barrett has pointed out, his no-tomorrow 2002 budget paved the way for much f

  February 19, 2009

• Tuesday's Headlines: Ruth Madoff fighting Bernie's victims for 'her' $62 million

  [HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]Your Tuesday New York headlines...Ruth Madoff fights her husband's victims to keep their hands off $62 million she stashed away.Ex-Islanders owners accused of mini-Madoff scheme, stealing $554 million, whine to judge they'll starve if assets are frozen.Rapacious building owners now suddenly screwed, renters in foreclosed large apartment complexes may actually benefit from Wall Street greed.Victoria "Growing Up" Gotti takes lie-detector test she says pr

  March 3, 2009

• Letters 8.20.08

  August 19, 2008

• Letters 11.26.08

  November 26, 2008

• Letters 12.3.08

  December 3, 2008

• Letters

  April 8, 2008

• Letters

  May 30, 2000

• Letters

  July 11, 2000

• Letters

  July 25, 2000

• Letters

  August 1, 2000

• Letters

  October 10, 2000

• Letters

  June 26, 2001

• Letters

  July 17, 2001

• Letters

  September 24, 2002

• Letters

  September 16, 2003

• Letters

  November 25, 2003

• Corrections

  January 20, 2004

• Letters

  July 20, 2004

• Letters

  July 27, 2004

• Letters

  December 14, 2004

• The 50th Anniversary Special: An Introduction

  October 18, 2005

• Rudy Awakening

  September 5, 2006

• 'Voice' Spreading Paranoia Every Which Way

  December 12, 2006

• How He Got That Story

  January 9, 2007

• Reader: A Classic Case of Madman Giuliani

  May 8, 2007

• Letters

  November 6, 2007

• Letters

  December 4, 2007

• Letters: May 20, 2009

  May 20, 2009

• Wayne Barrett Channels the Mayor

  Our illustrious colleague Wayne Barrett was at the New School's Center for New York City Affairs yesterday and, in the course of a Q&A, took on the personality of one of his great subjects, Mayor Bloomberg. "I just want to see if there is anybody in the audience who has a disability and a tape recorder with them," went part of his bit. "If there is I want them to know that I'm going to treat them just like anybody else in the audience... You may have heard that I recently said how much I love ri

  April 23, 2009

• Teitelbaum, Paterson Target, Quits

  You saw Wayne Barrett's story earlier about Paterson's "knee-jerk reactions and posturing, attempting to look like an ethics crusader for a day" in the State Commission on Public Integrity case? Where he fired most of the panel, but they refused to leave? So the Governor lined up state officials past and present to back him up? The executive director of the Commission, Herbert Teitelbaum, has resigned. For details, read Barrett's story.

  May 18, 2009

• Mayor, UFT Head Getting Cozy; Whither Education Reform?

  If you've read today Wayne Barrett story on Mayor Bloomberg's tendency to cut deals with the teacher's union, and why (if he's serious about school reform) he should cut it out, you may be interested in what PolitickerNY's Jason Horowitz reports about Bloomberg's mayoral control renewal campaign: he's "acting like a politician" to save it, playing well with legislators and councilmembers rather than being his usual prickly self. He also says Randi Weingarten's UFT has "begun to make conciliatory

  May 13, 2009

• Letters

  May 27, 2009

• Palin Legal Team Attacks Voice, City Slickers

  In today's rightbloggers column we mention a letter (pdf) from Sarah Palin's lawyers threatening legal action against reporters, bloggers, and anyone else who would, in their words, "propagate defamatory material" against the soon-to-be-former Governor of Alaska. Only a few specific individuals were mentioned in this legal throwdown, and we would like to mention that our own Wayne Barrett is among them, albeit in a footnote regarding the "canard" about Palin's house and the enduring mysteries of

  July 6, 2009

• Mayoral School Control Deal Allegedly Happening; NYU Center Bloomberg Hates Gets Bumped

  We suppose we should mention it since some people find it exciting, but the news that a "deal" is "in the works" for the state senate to renew mayoral control of the city's schools seems pretty weak tea. The parent training institute, arts advisory council, and safety committees sound more like gestures of respect toward constituent groups than important reforms. Giving district superintendents "more power to review principals" seems like a good idea, and we look forward to learning whether or n

  July 24, 2009

• Letters: July 28, 2009

  July 28, 2009

• Wayne Barrett Internship Applications Now Being Accepted

  ​The Voice is now taking applications from enrolled college students for Fall internships working with investigative reporter Wayne Barrett. Wayne's interns help him research and report his stories, gaining extraordinary experience in investigative journalism. These interns never get coffee or file paperwork (unless it's their own) and work alongside professional reporters digging through public records and interviewing local politicians. Back in the office, they search archives, research issu

  August 3, 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 people continued to bitch at the town halls, which we attributed to fear of younger hipster geezers. Mayor Bloomberg had a good week, starting with an alternately flattering and mischievous New York

  August 21, 2009

• Bad Teachers in Limbo: New Yorker Weighs in on 'Rubber Rooms'

  ​This week's New Yorker has an excellent piece on the city's pathetic "rubber rooms" -- where incompetent teachers rot (with pay) as the city tries, in vain, to fire them, a nearly impossible task under the current teachers' union contract. Writer Steven Brill (yes, that Steven Brill) points out that one case alone has provided a year of testimony -- longer than even capital murder trials -- and despite mountains of evidence of a teacher's complete ineptitude, will still not likely result in h

  August 25, 2009

• Stuy Town Owners Back in Court to Defend Jacked-Up Rents

  After nearly three years of veritable civil war between two powerful real estate executives and thousands of tenants, the owners of the historic downtown residential complexes, Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, will appear in court again today. Landlords Jerry and Rob Speyer, and their partner, private equity giant BlackRock Realty, will face an Albany appeals court judge in an attempt to overturn a March verdict which said that the landlords owed hundreds of million dollars in rent re

  September 10, 2009

• Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

  ​ Ha, ha, ha. The sweet release of death is a week closer. In the afterlife we can forget all about Kanye and all these ridiculous (but highly amusing) tributes. New York had a big Primary Day -- or, judging by turnout, a dinky one. Our hero Tony Avella went down to defeat. The heavily funded Manhattan D.A.'s race saw a victory for the old boy's network. Leslie Crocker Snyder will now work the hustings in China. The comptroller's race went to a runoff (David Yassky's in, and gave credit

  September 18, 2009