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Ed-Wise: States of schools and states of minds

Several recent education-related stories affecting the city have arisen recently and they each deserve their word equivalent of 15 minutes of fame. Eric "Roger Rabbit" Goldstein, the former head of …

Killing the Taylor Law

At a recent worker organizing conference I heard a talk by a PSC-CUNY member who called for repealing the Taylor Law. During the break, while we talked about how to do that, they dismissed using …

The trouble with breaking glass ceilings is that the shards can be hazardous to the glass-breaker. Based on newspaper accounts, it seems former Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell, the first female …

How the city’s ‘bridge’ exam can succeed

Correction: The requirement that candidates for staff analyst trainee positions have work experience in areas including budgeting, methods analysis and operations research of four years with a …

Congestion: cough up

"Civil Discourse": that's the forgotten password that's causing so many error messages. Can it temper the road rage in the debate over congestion pricing? Anyone who recalls a city government that …

On June 23, the stretch of 19th Street between Avenues N and O in Brooklyn was renamed “Eddie Kay Way.” Speakers honoring Eddie included Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and former Mayor Bill de …

Besides being a hell of a lot of fun, the absolute dream race in 2024 — for most Democrats, at any rate — would be a contest where Donald Trump narrowly loses the Republican nomination for the …

The red umbrella

If King Charles II, the 17th century ancestor of the current British sovereign, were alive and cruising today, would he admit to the high-born principles that drove his unchallenged carnality?  …

Supreme Court attacks right to strike

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court took aim at our right to strike. In the   Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local Union 174 case, the court ruled 8 to …

Blank Slate: Read all about it

The newly passed Clean Slate Act does not refer to a slate of pristine candidates for elective office. The annals of political mischief are bleach-resistant. But the records of ordinary mortals can …

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