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WHY IS NEW YORK’S LIBERAL LEGAL LION LETITIA JAMES UNDERMINING THE GREEN AMENDMENT?
Attorney General Letitia James has a solid-gold Liberal reputation but her defense of New York City's right to dump its trash on a tiny upstate town raises questions about her commitment to protecting the environment, a State Supreme Court judge and environmental advocates say.

AMERICA'S NEW PURITANS
EDITORIAL
“These Digital Age Puritans speak a new language but operate in an old mold. The liturgy is different but the preaching is the same.”

THE DOOMSDAY 'BOMB TRAIN' THAT COULD BLOWUP WEST POINT AND POISON THE HUDSON RIVER
Two train derailments in Ohio in a month have focused public attention on rail safety. CSX runs dozens of so-called "bomb" trains loaded with explosive Bakken crude oil and other toxic chemicals literally beneath the American Military Academy at West Point on the Hudson River every week.

PICTURE HISTORY OF ‘SPECIAL PURPOSE’ NYPD UNITS TO POLICE PROTESTS & MORE
As the New York City Council weighs whether to order the NYPD to disband its special purpose Strategic Response Group, here’s a history in photographs of past special purpose NYPD units, including those charged with policing protests.

THROWBACK THURSDAY 2018: Three Rikers Correction Officers Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Female Detainee For Over A Year
Female prisoner’s lawsuit for rape by guards on Rikers Island provides window into daily life for women there, circa 2018.

CRAIG NEWMARK WATCH DAY 1
Teenagers were sold to men to rape on the Internet website that bears his name, Craigslist, and Craig Newmark's response was to defend his Cyberspace empire by falsely alleging journalists reporting it committed ethics violations. Now he’s reshaping journalism with millions of dollars in donations to news organizations, colleges and institutions.

THE PIMP IN THE NEWSROOM
Teenagers were sold to men to rape on the Internet website that bears his name, Craigslist, and Craig Newmark's response was to defend his Cyberspace empire by falsely alleging journalists reporting it committed ethics violations. Now he’s reshaping journalism with millions of dollars in donations to news organizations, colleges and institutions.
ENVIRONMENTAL ICON JOHN MUIR’S SECRET WHITE SUPREMACIST CABIN: 2 OF 2
JOHN MUIR'S 'IMMORTAL SOUL SYMPATHY' WITH HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN AND THE HUDSON VALLEY CASTLE THAT HELPED BIRTH HITLER

ENVIRONMENTAL ICON JOHN MUIR’S SECRET WHITE SUPREMACIST CABIN: 1 OF 2
JOHN MUIR'S 'IMMORTAL SOUL SYMPATHY' WITH HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN AND THE HUDSON VALLEY CASTLE THAT HELPED BIRTH HITLER

THROWBACK THURSDAY: August Rebellion: New York’s Forgotten Female Prison Riot
This week’s Throwback Thursday feature is a report I published in the Village Voice in 2016.

THE SECRET WHITE ‘SLAVE’ REVOLT THAT SPARKED THE REAL AMERICAN REVOLUTION: PART 2 OF 2
Farmers and native American allies rebelled against slave-like conditions on massive manors owned by a wealthy, privileged few and laid siege to New York City in 1766.

THE SECRET WHITE ‘SLAVE’ REVOLT THAT SPARKED THE REAL AMERICAN REVOLUTION: PART 1 OF 2
Farmers and native American allies rebelled against slave-like conditions on massive manors owned by a wealthy, privileged few and laid siege to New York City in 1766.

THROWBACK THURSDAY: HOW NY PRISON ‘SLAVE LABOR' POWERS A $50 MILLION MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE
“In 2010 when the Syracuse Post-Standard visited New York’s maximum-security prison in Auburn to report on Corcraft’s license plate franchise, one prisoner working on the assembly line “called out that working on the line is ‘slave labor.’”

RIKERS’ PLAN TO BAN LETTERS WILL KILL: ONE PRISONER’S STORY
City officials want to replace letter mail in city jails with scanned electronic messages. That’s inhumane, and adds to the misery New Yorkers already suffer on Rikers Island.

HOW ANNA WINTOUR MADE A JOBLESS EX-CONVICT A JOURNALIST
FASHION WEEK 2006 WAS OLD NEW YORK IN FULL EFFECT

STRANGELOVE IN ALBANY: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE NY'S WILD & CRAZY PROGRESSIVE BUDGET
ANNUAL BUDGET ANARCHY IN ALBANY IS PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

INSIDE THE LONGSHOT REPUBLICAN LAWSUIT TO MAKE HECTOR LASALLE NY'S NEXT TOP JUDGE
COURT FIGHT OVER NEW YORK'S NEXT TOP JUDGE PITS DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR WITH REPUBLICAN ALLIES AGAINST FELLOW DEMOCRATS

THROWBACK THURSDAY: THE END OF THE 'LOBSTER TRICK’ AND THE SLOW DEATH OF 24/7 NYC JOURNALISM
Throwback Thursday with this banger from 2019.

NYPD TO SILENCE POLICE SCANNERS, WON’T COMMIT TO JOURNALIST ACCESS
NYPD to digitally encrypt radio transmissions journalists rely on to independently gather news as it is happening, making them and public dependent on police for information after the fact. Part 2 of 2

JOURNALISTS REVEAL DRAMATIC RACE TO BEAT POLICE TO ERIC GARNER VIDEO
How a police scanner kick-started Black Lives Matter and why it matters now. Part 1 of 2.