To the editor: President Trump says of New York City’s new mayor, “If you have a communist running New York, all you’re doing is wasting the money you’re sending them.” By that, I guess, he means the money goes to the people rather than into the...
To the editor: Interviewed on CNN, U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi looked right into the camera and called President Donald Trump "a vile creature; the worst thing on the face of the earth.” That’s telling it like it is, and every honest, moral,...
To the editor: Extrajudicial executions, political prosecutions, silencing dissent, restricting media access to information of public interest and widespread abuses of executive power are hallmarks of banana republics. They also describe Donald...
To the editor: The full effect of the shutdown is too extensive for a Chief letter. Highlights include a severe shortage of air traffic controllers, massive flight cancellations, delays in inspecting our food for safety. I vividly recall the...
To the editor: In a rebuke of Donald Trump’s policy failures, Democrats swept into office on Election Day. Beyond the well-publicized races in NYC, New Jersey and Virginia, Democrats won seats in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, the...
With Zohran Mandani finishing with 50.4 percent to Cuomo's 41.6 percent, Curtis Sliwa (7.1 percent) was not a spoiler. Time will tell how much of Mamdani's promises will be kept. He was elected mayor, not king. But raising taxes on the rich to fund necessities for everyone else is certainly a worthy goal...
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has made overtures to labor that dramatize a great divide. At the annual SOMOS conference in Puerto Rico, attended by elected officials and union leaders, Henry Garrido, District Council 37 executive director and Municipal Labor Committee co-chairperson, emceed an event and was joined on stage by Mamdani....
To the editor: I believe that New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani truly understands and cares that, a few social/labor uprisings or revolutions notwithstanding, the superfluously rich and powerful have always had the police and military...
To the editor: To those Trump voters who are starting to feel the economic pain, you can just keep supporting your phony macho “Superman,” who is really a draft-dodging coward and emerging war criminal. Don’t complain when you have...
In November 1945 the first Nuremberg trial began. Associate Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, the chief prosecutor for the U.S., described the crimes of the surviving Nazi leadership as “so malignant, and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored...
There has been a common thread running through the twists and turns on the road to change the health benefits plans of active city workers and retirees. That constant is the lack of transparency. The Office of Labor Relations doesn’t reveal the identities or affiliations of their Evaluating Committee ...
To the editor: Ron Isaac's "All's well that ends well — mostly" (The Chief, Commentary, Oct. 17) is a fine work once you read past paragraphs one through five and seven. I suspect that the theory of William Shakespeare not having written the...
To the editor: The author of "The Hateful Old Party" (The Chief, Letters, Oct. 31) responded online to "Taking Exception" (Letters, Oct. 31) and "Deal Out The Race Card" (Letters, March 21) Just as the author apologized online to me a while...
To the editor: Ask a teacher or city worker if they want their union/employer to pay for-profit insurance companies to administer their health benefits, or if they want wages that exceed inflation. They can't have both. The New York Health...
To the editor: It’s perplexing to hear Andrew Cuomo take personal offense for negativity towards Christopher Columbus’ image. Cuomo, if he recalls any history lessons from his years at Archbishop Molloy, should know that Italians and their...
To the editor: I viewed with shock and sadness the photographs of the White House’s East Wing demolition. It is the People’s House. Ronald Reagan apparently said of his stay there,“I just am a temporary tenant here.” The demolition was completed...
To the editor: Between March 1, 2024, and Oct. 10, 2025, the number of FDNY emergency medical technicians dropped by 312, and the number of paramedics dropped by 99. That's according to the latest "FDNY Total Workforce Analysis" posted online. As...
To the editor: The Oct. 17 full page anti-Mamdani statement from Transit Supervisors TWU Local 106 relies on the boogeyman as it uses the word radical four times and socialist three times. It makes no reference to the #1 reason why Mamdani is...
To the editor: The billionaires who fund political campaigns and own the mainstream media have often told us to vote for a Democrat or a Republican because they're the only ones with a chance to win. But that's when the third-party candidate is...
To the editor: As a city retiree and former vice president of Local 1549, I cannot vote for Andrew Cuomo for mayor. Zohran Mamdani is my choice. It was Andrew Cuomo who gave our members a Tier 6 pension. This has proven to be an...
To the editor: A recent letter writer states (not naming me) that in "Deal Out the Race Card" I gave him "heat” ("The Hateful Old Party," The Chief, Letters, Oct. 24). I presented alternate opinions and specific facts, facts the author was...
To the editor: Watching news coverage of the Oct. 10 Gaza ceasefire deal made me wonder if the world suffers from mass amnesia. Everyone fawned over Donald Trump’s incredible foreign policy “achievement” — an end to Israeli bombardment of Gaza in...
In less than two weeks, Zohran Mamdani will likely have been elected the city’s next mayor. His platform includes a four-year rent freeze for two million New Yorkers who live in rent-stabilized apartments, no-cost universal...
\When asked by an attendee at a recent Bernie Sanders-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez town hall why the Republicans have more effective messaging than the Democrats, AOC gave a simple and insightful answer. She said that the...
To the editor: For those who complain that I'm again writing about a criminal "justice" system releasing dangerous offenders, it's because it happens repeatedly. Here's three recent examples. Timothy Bohler was just indicted for the March 22,...