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CCNY Does Right 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
CCNY Does Right Bucking political correctness, the college names a school after Colin Powell. The City College of New York (CCNY), located in Harlem’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood, is a public inst...
What to Do When You’re Broke 25 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
What to Do When You’re Broke New York’s insolvent municipalities could learn from California’s bankrupt ones. Ben Margot/AP Photo Stockton, California, hopes to lighten a crushing debt load through...
Federalism, Red and Blue 22 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Federalism, Red and Blue Both Right and Left are telling Washington to back off. GARRETT CHEEN/THE LIVINGSTON ENTERPRISE/AP PHOTO Hands off my firearms: gun rights have rallied conservative federal...
Déjà Vu Detroit 22 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Déjà Vu Detroit Ignoring history, the city moves to subsidize yet another sports arena. To those who viewed Detroit’s decline as an inevitable result of longtime Democratic rule, the city’s bankrupt...
The Secrecy Lobby 21 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
The Secrecy Lobby Golden State pensioners work to conceal facts about their benefits. Last month, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) announced that it would post the names ...
Elmore Leonard, Cowboy 21 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Elmore Leonard, Cowboy The legendary crime novelist started out as an entirely different kind of writer. Elmore Leonard made his reputation as a writer of crime stories peopled by shady characters d...
The NYPD’s Hanging Judge 19 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
The NYPD’s Hanging Judge As her ruling showed, Shira Scheindlin is patently ignorant about the realities of policing. Just how clueless is U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin about the New York Pol...
Stop-and-Frisk and American Freedom 19 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Stop-and-Frisk and American Freedom Recognizing “furtive movements” is part of basic self-preservation. U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin’s recent decision in Floyd v. City of New York foun...
What Is a Mayor’s Job? 18 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
What Is a Mayor’s Job? Ensuring freedom from fear, the last two decades prove. Patrick Chauvel/Sygma/Corbis For New Yorkers of my generation, a keynote of our youth was fear. Deserted streets at ni...
From “High Speed” to Hyper 15 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
From “High Speed” to Hyper An ambitious new plan shows how slow California’s bullet train will be. Elon Musk is a smart businessman who has been around plenty of politicians. So the founder of PayPa...
