Steven Long
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How the WFP dooms NYC democrats
Tuesday's "victories" for the Working Families Party were hollow ones, as are most WFP wins these days. The WFP -- an alliance of public-sector unions and social-service advocates, co-founded by...
JERSEY'S TRUE TEST
NEW Jersey Gov. Jon Cor zine has been running TV ads that make liberal use of President Obama's mid-July visit to buoy Corzine's faltering re-election bid. But Corzine's support continues...
BUDGET-CUT ABCS
MAYOR Bloomberg says that balancing the city's budget in tough times requires "shared sacrifice" -- meaning combined tax hikes and spending cuts. Yet (as is so often the case in...
SHACKLING NY
'FREEDOM in the 50 States" is the most comprehensive ef fort to date to rank states by how their public policies influence "individual freedom in the economic, social and personal...
INVITING CORRUPTION
YESTERDAY'S wide ranging indictment against former Liberal Party boss Raymond B. Harding paints a vivid portrait of ballot lines for sale in New York. The indictment alleges that, in exchange...
FEDS' FULL CIRCLE ON MORTGAGES
ON Wednesday, the Obama administration announced a mortgage-relief plan that will lower homeowners' payments so they're more manageable. The goal: to cut monthly payments on loans in danger of default...
WILL DEMS MOVE TO GUT WELFARE REFORM?
WILL Democrats use their new power in Washington to imperil welfare reform? Already, House Democrats have passed, in the stimulus bill, a provision to help states pay for added welfare...
THE PHANTOM GAINS OF COLLEGE AID
LEGISLATORS, opinion-makers and the public at large have been rightly skeptical of US automakers' appeals for a bailout. It may be time to apply the same skepticism to the growing...
THE MELTDOWN'S MAIN STREET ROOTS
JOURNALISTS like simple stories with clear-cut villains. So, in the financial crisis, Time magazine tells us that Wall Street "sold out" America, while The New York Times decries "Wall Street's...
ORGANIZER IN CHIEF
Barack Obama represents the first appearance in a presidential race of a rela tively new political type: the community organizer. His past as a local activist in Chicago has provoked...
JERSEY: A LESSON IN FAILURE FOR NY
IN the latest sign of New Jersey's rapid deteriora tion, its newspapers, which rely heavily on the local economy, are in dire straits. The state's biggest newspaper, The Star-Ledger, is...
A NONPROFIT THREAT
THE budget scandal now engulfing the City Council is just the latest in a long line of controversies involving city funding of nonprofits. Today, the outrage is staffers having allocated...
NJ: HIGH PRICE FOR ROTTEN GOV'T
WHEN New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine an nounced his slim med- down budget recently, he said that the state could no longer afford the government that it now has. What...
BREAKING THE MOB
FEDERAL and local prose cutors were quick to brand last week's massive bust of 62 alleged Gambino crime family members, union officials and construction executives as "historic" and "a milestone...
GIANTS-NYC: FEUD OVER
Mayor Bloomberg assures us that he's not a candidate for anything right now, so we can assume that his enthusiastic embrace of the Super Bowl champion Giants in a parade...
CRUEL USE OF KILLER PAWNS
BAGHDAD - Two mentally retarded women strapped with remote-control explosives - and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers - brought carnage yesterday to two pet bazaars, killing at least 90...
THE GREAT BLACK-HISPANIC SPLIT
FIERCE fighting over the minority vote may be the real surprise of the '08 Democratic race, with many blacks gravitating to Sen. Barack Obama and Hispanics to Sen. Hillary Clinton....
NY'S BLOATED HOSPITALS
EVEN as the '08 presidential candidates stress the need to reform health care, New York state is leading the way - backward. A year after the landmark Berger Commission report...
THE IRE OF TEXAS UPON ROCKET
HOUSTON - They've been let down by their hometown hero. Residents of Roger Clemens' upscale Houston neighborhood said they're "disappointed" and "disgusted" the Rocket has been accused in the bombshell...
NJ'S EXECUTION ERROR
NEW Jersey's Legislature is in the process of repealing Jersey's death penalty amid grand claims that capital punishment is barbaric and ineffective. Yet the politicians have paid little attention to...