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Commissioner Clash: Bratton, Kelly and Reality in Over-Policed NYC
City HallFormer Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly (left) and his successor William Bratton disagree with each other. Police reform advocates largely disagree with both of them. The pretty public spat...
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No Backspace:Fear and Loathing of Our Homeless Neighbors
Courtesy NYPostA year of headlines from the New York Post St. Joseph's Church, in Prospect Heights, was full of angry Brooklynites. It was 2002, and a significant portion of the neighborhood was still...
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No BackSpace:Will Bill de Blasio Fulfill his Promise as a Global...
Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography OfficeDe Blasio has received credit for addressing income inequality as a central goal of OneNYC. While Bill de Blasio has made nice commitments on climate, his...
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No BackSpace:Yes, Asians Have Opinions About Stop-and-Frisk, Too
Mayoral Photography Office Among the people who might have made New Year resolutions to leave old baggage in the old year were New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his predecessor Ray Kelly....
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No Backspace:Workers Against NYC’s Growing ‘Gig Economy’
Andrew BogottThe new office. Everybody used to know what you meant when you said "I got a job." Not anymore. Not when more than 40 percent of Americans work outside the single-employer full-time norm....
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No Backspace:Doubts on De Blasio’s Gun Courts
Michael Appleton/ Mayoral Photography OfficeCommissioner Bratton and Mayor de Blasio at a recent press conference discussing 2015 crime numbers. "As violent crime has been constantly reduced we now...
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No Backspace:It’s Not the Poor who are Organizing Against a NYC Plastic-Bag Law
Trosmisiek One of the big environmental pushes in recent years in NYC and nationwide has been to get rid of the single use plastic bags handed out for free in supermarkets. In NYC, employees are often...
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No Backspace:Campaign 2016’s Distorted Poverty Debate
U.S. House of RepresentativesSpeaker Paul Ryan's poverty plan, as well as many similar GOP proposals, is doomed to failure because of reliance on discredited, right-wing lies about poverty. On February...
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No Backspace:The Truth of Voluntary Segregation in City Schools
Patrick KwangThis year, the Lunar New Year was listed as a school holiday in the city for the first time. One of the powerful arguments elected officials in the Asian neighborhoods made was that in...
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No Backspace:Want Real NYPD Reform? Cut its $4.9 Billion Budget
Jonathan McIntoshThe NYPD has a larger uniformed headcount than the armed forces of 95 countries. 2016 is the year of police reform. Or is it? After nearly a year of meetings with the mayor's office...
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No Backspace: The Only Thing New About Uber is Who’s Making Money Off It
CIANow, private investors are pouring into Uber drawn by visions of profiting from a taxi-company without the pesky costs of operating a taxi-company, like licensing, or workers, or cars. It seems like...
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No Backspace: Yes, New York Can Shut Down Indian Point!
Kevin P. Coughlin/Office of the GovernorBoth Sen. Charles Schumer (left) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo want to close Indian Point. But Schumer says there's not enough alternative power to do so, and, the...
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No Backspace: Singling Out Nail Salons Won’t Fix a Broken Immigration System
James Lee Let me make a confession first. After more than 10 years covering the Chinese community and conducting numerous tough interviews, I still have a weak spot as a community reporter. I still get...
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No Backspace: The Public Relations of Counterterrorism
Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeCommissioner Bratton and Mayor de Blasio on their way to meet reporters to discuss New York's precautions after the Belgium attacks. In the New York Police...
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No BackSpace: What Environmentalists Want to Hear from Mayor de Blasio on...
Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.Mayor de Blasio, with former VP Al Gore to his right, walks in the 2014 climate march. With the doomsday clock for climate change rapidly ticking, Earth Day this year...
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Wake Up, Workers: That Supreme Court Decision was a Reprieve, not a Victory
Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United StatesThe unusual timing around the critical Friedrich decision, which came soon after the death of Justice Scalia, means the fundamental...
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No Backspace: NYPD Raids Won’t Solve NYCHA’s Violence Problem
NYPDNews.comA scene from an NYPD video about the April 26-27 raids. When police and the Manhattan District Attorney's office launched a massive raid in West Harlem in 2014, only a handful of voices...
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No BackSpace: Why Climate Change Divides the Labor Movement
Brylie OxleyProtesters against the Keystone Pipeline, which looked liked environmental madness to some and a job-creation machine to others. The head of the 500,000 member laborers' union recently...
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It’s Time for Bernie To Drop Out. No Really. This Time We Mean It.
Michael VadonTodayt it's safe to say Bernie is not going to win. But some have been saying that since way before it was safe, or even fair. The math is now clear: Unless something occurs to remove...
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No BackSpace: Can You Hear Us Now? How Verizon Strikers Came Through Loud and...
Thomas Altfather GoodOn the picket line. After 44 days on strike, 39,000 members of the Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers marched back into work at...
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