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As Village Preservation reported in 2021, State Senator Hoylman-Sigal didn’t do nearly as much as he could have to stop the unadulterated plunder of our city engendered by that year’s infamous Soho-Noho-Chinatown upzoning hustle.  Now Hoylman-Sigal has signaled his acquiescence to a … Continue reading →

Blistering cuts to our library system, and a windfall of deregulation for the developers who fund him. In fact, it’s a developer dictated budget, in which local input over the current development frenzy is lessened further. For shame.

Village Preservation disproves the canard that lifting all restraints on residential tower size is the answer to the housing crisis.  “We’re building mostly expensive housing which many New Yorkers can’t afford, and losing existing affordable housing, including the nearly 120,000 units of rent … Continue reading →

The Times polls are consistently wrong when it comes to domestic electoral politics, and consistently oversample Republicans. They are, in the words of Joe Scarborough, “garbage.”

Instead of brown shirts, they wear Trump’s Star-Spangled, badly fitting drag. Traitorous automatons.

And the Clinton White House that employed him reacted with fury. They did not want their neo-liberal fantasies exploded and exposed. Reich, however, still believes that democracy can be saved from MAGA and the Republican party. So pitch in as … Continue reading →

Blanche and Neckeles let their greed and ambition tumble them into the Trump vortex.

Once-respected attorneys Todd Blanche and Susan Necheles have now decided to become enthusiastic carriers of Trump contagion. Blanche reportedly wants a high-level position in a second Trump administration. Guess he can’t wait to help Trump shred the Constitution. Trump marionette Necheles even … Continue reading →

joins Herr Trump in the courtroom today, after adding his voice to Trump’s contempt megaphone. Only the best people.

Speaker Johnson put on one of his prosthetic facial expressions and threw down the gauntlet against this country yesterday as he vowed to place ex-President Trump above the law, making cl clear that  that will be his domestic policy priority … Continue reading →