What does car insurance have to do with United University Professions and why does UUP support the Governor’s proposed reforms? Let me provide some context. UUP is the nation’s largest higher education union, representing the faculty and...
The Democrats got stuck to President Trump's oratorical flypaper at the State of the Union speech. By sitting stone-faced on their seats as though that had Gorilla Glue stuck on their duffs, appearing (though not actually being) unmoved by...
I recently ran into a former student, who reminded me of a school trip I organized to Washington D.C. in 2013 – and the most startling aspect of that trip, a visit to the State Department to hear about U.S.-Iranian relations. Now, what we learned...
Billionaires are the result of a choice. A choice to prioritize our laws, economy, and infrastructure around the protection of unprecedented wealth, instead of around working people. It is why we are told there isn’t enough money in the richest...
The Feb. 20 edition of The Chief has a long article reported from New York Focus. The article argues for a quick return to the days of yore when a young worker went straight to his or her district leader to apply for a government job. The author...
As hell froze over this winter, Con Edison chomped at the bit, licked its chops and crouched on its haunches, lustily awaiting to attack their prey who have no choice but to have an account with them. They are at war with their customers....
It’s a new Mayor, but the same story. Once again, New York City is facing a budget deficit: this time, approximately $5.4 billion. This deficit is one of the first tests of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s commitment to a social democratic platform...
As an onlooker following the public discussion about FDNY Emergency Medical Services (EMS) pay parity since 2019, it makes sense to me that with a yearly base pay of $95,316 after 5½ years on the job, the New York City Sanitation Department (DSNY)...
All right. She's elegant, urbane, charming, multilingual, has philanthropic tendencies, is a child nurturer on a global scale, graduated summa cum laude from Finishing School, has a good heart and is a veteran of supermodel...
Invention for invention's sake is sufficient reward. It's a bonus when it pranks the human imagination by kicking it into overdrive. Sooner or later, a practical use for every inconceivable invention will be created. An "aha" moment will...
During Black History Month, President Donald Trump allowed an image depicting President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as apes to appear on his social media account. Sadly, this was not surprising. Throughout his political career,...
I subscribe to the theory that you and I are here because our “selfish genes,” as Richard Dawkins argues, carried us forward. By hook or by crook, they navigated eons of...
DEAR FRIENDS, We aren’t hearing enough from the oligarchs who control U.S. media about the impact AI is about to have on working people. I’ve heard it described as a “technology tsunami.” It’s mentioned only in passing or buried deep in business...
Something remarkable happened last week. Centrist Democratic Senator Rubin Gallego (AZ) advocated “a true national strike,” if Trump interferes with the midterm elections. “Do not go to work. … if you’re a pilot do not show up, if you drive a...
A major problem for any organization is when confusion exists as to who’s in charge. It appears recently appointed correction commissioner Stanley Richards isn’t ready to acknowledge that newly named Nunez remediation manager Nick Deml is in...
t just may be that in the eyes of our Creator, we are defined by more than the aggregate of our biometric data. But at the current pace of technology's pernicious progress, governmental and corporate surveillance scans may outperform the...
Truth has always been stranger than fiction, but these days it is more repulsive and vastly more amusing. The revelations it spawns out of nowhere, afflict and reflect everywhere. That includes the seaside English town of Skegness...
When a person suffers a serious injury the priority is to make sure they have a clear airway to breathe and to stop the bleeding. Presently, the New York City Correction Department is suffering from asphyxiation and is bleeding out. Yet, the...
On Thursday, January 15, the new Speaker of the New York City Council Julie Menin re-appointed me...
Since 2015, while the federal monitor had correction officers in his crosshairs and was preoccupied with gaslighting and scapegoating DOC’s uniformed force, a dystopian “Lord of the Flies” environment proliferated and overwhelmed the...
Dear Mayor Mamdani, I was so happy to hear you touting the purpose of your new Office of Mass Engagement, that its purpose is to “organize New Yorkers to participate in City decision-making… reach communities that have historically been excluded...
Over more than a half-century, Rob Reiner's legacy achieved icon status. His body of work assure him of a place in the pantheon of great cinematic artists. But now, because of the same ghoulish propensity that causes "rubbernecking" in both...
In recent years, the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) has faced significant scrutiny, particularly in light of the Nunez federal monitor agreement aimed at reforming practices concerning the treatment of individuals in its facilities....
As a prediction of the course of natural events, Elon Musk's observation is an astute observation. But his view that Lillian Bonsignore, the newly appointed FDNY commissioner will flame out and become the angel of death, is a freakish...
On Jan 9, The Chief reported that newly-elected Mayor Zohran Mamdani issued an executive order banning “solitary confinement” in NYC jails and “directed the Law Department to work with the federal monitor and all Nunez parties to develop a plan to...