- Elders of the New
Left
In These Times (March 2, 2007) - Whose Streets?
Here (Issue #2, January 2000) -
Spire Education: Cooper Union's Towering Tax Break
Village Voice online (April 27, 2006) -
The Shel Game: Silver and his Albany pals mint hundreds of
millions in corporate handouts without anybody noticing
Village Voice (August 2, 2005) -
Land Doesn't Pay: The city's $7 billion-a-year property tax gap -
no
wonder we're broke
Village Voice (May 17, 2005) - Money for Nothing: "Billionaires" rally for stock market subsidies
In These Times (November 27, 2000) - Rudy's Sweet Stock Deal
In These Times (February 21, 1999) - To The Highest Bidder: Corporations jump from town to town in search of the best public subsidy
In These Times (May 31, 1998) -
Coney Island sleight of hand
Metro NY (January 7, 2008) -
Bloomberg's Coney Gambit Leaves Thor Up Sitt Creek
Village Voice online (November 9, 2007) -
Astroland Lives For One More Summer
Village Voice online (October 24, 2007) -
Brooklyn Residents Chant 'Save Our Neighborhood,
Yo'
Village Voice online (October 15, 2007) -
Last Ride at Astroland
Village Voice online (September 10, 2007) - Labor
Day Pains: Will this be the winter of Coney's
discontent?
Village Voice (August 28, 2007) - Will
City Land Swap Make Coney Squabble Vanish?
Village Voice online (August 9, 2007) - Thor
Throws a Coney Island Curveball
Village Voice online (June 18, 2007) - Coney
Island Lives! Astroland, Maybe Not
Village Voice online (June 7, 2007) - On the
Outs in Brooklyn: The city's complicity behind the borough's
soaring eviction rate
Village Voice (May 29, 2007) - Sitt
Hits the Fans: When Coney Gets Tough, the Going Gets
Weird
Village Voice (April 30, 2007) - Coney
Island's Last Ride? The Bulldozer! Behind the scenes, a scary game
of chicken between the city and a developer who dreams of high-rise condos
that won't amuse you
Village Voice (April 10, 2007) - New Costs
Threaten to Derail No. 7 Extension
City Hall (March 2007) - All
Quiet on the Western Yards
Village Voice online (February 21, 2007) - New
York New Visions Tackles "Sustainable" New York Future
Streetsblog (February 6, 2007) -
Big Building Plans Raise Big Questions
City Hall (January 2007) -
Atlantic Yards: Silver Makes a Deal
Village Voice online (December 21, 2006) -
'Sun' Gaslights Its Readers
Village Voice online (December 15, 2006) -
Atlantic Yards Foes Hope for a Silver Christmas
Village Voice online (December 11, 2006) -
Secrets of the Ratner Plan Revealed! (Not)
Village Voice online (October 19, 2006) -
NYC's Cheap Housing Policy: Too Pricey?
Village Voice online (October 11, 2006) -
Ratnerville: What Economic Impact Study?
Village Voice online (September 28, 2006) -
Down With Doctoroff, Up With the 7 Train?
Village Voice online (September 27, 2006) -
Duck! It's Ratner Season in Brooklyn
Village Voice online (September 19, 2006) -
Roaring Over Ratner
Village Voice online (August 24, 2006) -
West Side Stories, cont'd
Village Voice online (August 2, 2006) -
Celebrity War Over Ratner in Brooklyn
Village Voice online (July 17, 2006) -
Atlantic Yards Lite?
Village Voice online (June 16, 2006) -
Scary Ride at Coney Island: Extreme makeover not
amusing to everybody in the amusement district
Village Voice (June 28, 2005) -
Gifted-class application a test in itself
Metro NY (December 10, 2007) -
Bridge-and-Tunnel Kids: When city parents choose public schools far
afield, what are the consequences?
Village Voice (November 14, 2007) - Your
Own
Personal Blackboard Jungle: Fresh from the frontlines, New York
Teaching
Fellows tell all
Village Voice (August 1, 2007) (with Stacy Cowley) - The Climate Change Gap: U.S. media fiddle
while
Earth burns
Extra! (July/August 2007) - New
York New Visions Tackles "Sustainable" New York Future
Streetsblog (February 6, 2007) - High Water Mark
Here (Issue #5, October 2001) - Downstream: An Interview With Sandra Steingraber
Here (Issue #5, October 2001) - A Death In Louisiana: On August 19, Kim Perrot died of cancer. Was this a random tragedy, or did her environment make her sick?
SportsJones.com (September 1, 1999) - All That Erasmatazz: Crawford's 'AI' game engine earns an erazzberry
XyzzyNews (Issue #14 - January 1998) - Elders of the New
Left
In These Times (March 2, 2007) - Review
of Stephen Pimpare's The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics, & Propaganda
in Two Gilded Ages
History News Network (November 2004) - Musket Porn
Here (Issue #6, December 2002) - Forgotten
Here (Issue #4, March 2001) -
NYC's Cheap Housing Policy: Too Pricey?
Village Voice online (October 11, 2006) -
Out of the Shelter, Into the Fire: New city program for homeless:
Keep your job or keep your apartment
Village Voice (June 21-27, 2006) - Our House
Here (Issue #1, 1998) -
'Economic Impact' Strikes Out
Metro NY (December 3, 2007) - A
Union Town Loses Patience With the Strike
Village Voice online (December 21, 2005) - A
MTA's Lowball Offer Could Cost City More Than a
Strike
Village Voice online (December 16, 2005) -
The Poor Will Always Be With Us: Just not on the
TV news
Extra! (September 10, 2007) - The Climate Change Gap: U.S. media fiddle
while
Earth burns
Extra! (July/August 2007) -
'Sun' Gaslights Its Readers
Village Voice online (December 15, 2006) - The Smell of
Success: After 10 years of 'welfare reform,' ignoring the human
impact
Extra! (November/December 2006) - Katrina's Vanishing
Victims:
Media forget the 'rediscovered' poor
Extra! (July/August 2006) - Media to City: Play Ball: Making New York safe
from democracy
Extra! (September/October 2005) - Fuzzy Math: Media
buy White House line on "deficit reduction"
Extra! (May/June 2005) - Declaring Victory in the Welfare Debate:
"Reform" is working, say media--but what does that mean?
Extra! (May/June 2002) - A Welfare Success -- but the Program Died:
Coverage of Minnesota study exposes media confusion on
poverty
Extra! (September/October 2000) - Pepper Spray Gets
in their Eyes: Media missed militarization of police work in
Seattle
Extra! (March/April 2000) - Throwing the Game: Conflicts of interest prevent tough coverage of sports issues
Extra! (November/December 1999) - Bizbrawl: How the heavy hitters are fighting to control the planet
The New York Times Magazine (October 18, 1998) (with Joanna Cagan) - Same Old Welfare Stories
In These Times (July 12, 1998) - "No Way to Sell a War": Press critiques CNN's attempted rally on Iraq
Extra! (May/June 1998) - Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind: 1.4 million welfare recipients get disappeared
Extra! (November/December 1997) - Following The Parties' Line On Welfare "Reform": When Democrats and Republicans agree, don't look for media debate
Extra! (November/December 1996) - Root, Root, Root For The Home Team: Local media push public subsidies for private stadiums
Extra! (July/August 1996) (with Joanna Cagan) - Growing Up: An Interview with Barbara Manning
Here (June 2003) - Louisville Lip: An Interview with Catherine Irwin
Here (June 2003) -
Turf Wars: Yanks' Replacement Park Stinks, Say
Bronx Residents
Village Voice (September 26, 2007) -
Yankees Build Giant Dustbowl in Bronx
Village Voice online (November 21, 2006) -
Macombs Damned
Village Voice online (August 15, 2006) -
Money Can't Buy Life in Prospect Park
Village Voice online (August 14, 2006) - The Battle of Brooklyn
Here (Issue #3, July 2000) - Whose Streets?
Here (Issue #2, January 2000) - This Used To Be My Playground: Giuliani's plans for a Parade Grounds ballpark leave kids out in the cold
Village Voice (November 17-23, 1999) - It Isn't Easy Staying Green: Public/private partnerships have allowed some of New York City's parks to flower as never before. But at what cost?
In These Times (June 30, 1997) - Review
of Stephen Pimpare's The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics, & Propaganda
in Two Gilded Ages
History News Network (November 2004) - Ending the Cycle of Terror (book review of: September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows: Turning Our Grief into Action for Peace, by David Potorti with Peaceful Tomorrows)
inthesetimes.com (September 11, 2003) - Jocklit: Stadium Games (book review)
Village Voice (May 31-June 6, 2000) - Hard Ball: The Abuse of Power in Pro Team Sports (book review)
SportsJones.com (June 2, 1999) - Invisible Hands (book review of: No Shame In My Game, by Katherine Newman, "So You Think I Drive A Cadillac?" by Karen Seccombe, and Don't Call Us Out of Name, by Lisa Dodson)
In These Times (May 30, 1999) - Gold Medals, Iron Fist: Olympic Protesters Face a World-Class Crackdown
Village Voice (September 13-19, 2000) - Pepper Spray Gets in their Eyes: Media missed militarization of police work in Seattle
Extra! (March/April 2000) -
Left-field thoughts on steroids
Metro NY (December 17, 2007) -
The Yankees Super Secret Hotel Aliases Revealed
Village Voice online (October 4, 2007) -
The Yanks Got Balls: City Documents Show Team
Billed Taxpayers for Souvenirs, Bar Tabs
Village Voice (October 3, 2007) -
Turf Wars: Yanks' Replacement Park Stinks, Say
Bronx Residents
Village Voice (September 26, 2007) - Yanks
Reach First Place ... In Stadium Subsidies
Village Voice online (July 20, 2007) - Brickbats
and Baseballs: Hey, Mets fan, spare a few dimes?
Village Voice (June 26, 2007) - Take Me
Out to the Mall Game: Hey, look what you're paying for! A Voice
guide
to the new Mets and Yankees stadiums.
Village Voice (March 27, 2007) - Of
Elephants and Fish: The A's and Marlins Seek to Complete MLB's Stadium
Sweep
baseballprospectus.com (March 18, 2007) - Stadium
Watch 2007: The Updates
baseballprospectus.com (March 4, 2007) - Bad
and Badder: Which Contracts Were Truly the Worst?
baseballprospectus.com (February 20, 2007) -
Give 'Em Enough ROPE: Marginal Wins Revisited,
Revisited
baseballprospectus.com (February 15, 2007) -
When Is A Win Not A Win? Improving on MP/MW
baseballprospectus.com (February 8, 2007) - Bloomberg
Adding $226 Million for Nets, Mets,
Yanks?
Village Voice online (January 29, 2007) -
Atlantic Yards: Silver Makes a Deal
Village Voice online (December 21, 2006) -
Atlantic Yards Foes Hope for a Silver Christmas
Village Voice online (December 11, 2006) -
Yankees Build Giant Dustbowl in Bronx
Village Voice online (November 21, 2006) -
Hail, Hail, Fremontia: The A's Look Southward
baseballprospectus.com (November 15, 2006) -
New Yorkers Get Zip From New Mets Park
Village Voice online (November 13, 2006) -
On the Margins: New Revenue-Sharing Rules Should Spread The
Wealth, But Not The Talent
baseballprospectus.com (November 3, 2006) -
Secrets of the Ratner Plan Revealed! (Not)
Village Voice online (October 19, 2006) -
Ghost of Munson in the Lidle Plane Crash
Village Voice online (October 11, 2006) -
Ratnerville: What Economic Impact Study?
Village Voice online (September 28, 2006) -
Duck! It's Ratner Season in Brooklyn
Village Voice online (September 19, 2006) -
Additional Charges May Apply: The New Wave in Stadium
Subsidies?
baseballprospectus.com (September 13, 2006) - Another
Yankee Sweep: How city officials snoozed while the Yanks burned
public money for their new stadium
Village Voice (August 29, 2006) -
Roaring Over Ratner
Village Voice online (August 24, 2006) -
Macombs Damned
Village Voice online (August 15, 2006) - Yankee
Lobbyists on Taxpayers' Tab: Circling the bases: Documents reveal
city
paid the team's lobbyists and execs for lobbying city and state
officials
Village Voice (July 25, 2006) -
Gentlemen, Start Your Bulldozers
Village Voice online (July 19, 2006) -
Park Service Okays Yanks' Park Demolition
Village Voice online (July 18, 2006) -
Celebrity War Over Ratner in Brooklyn
Village Voice online (July 17, 2006) -
Carrion's Mission Accomplished
Village Voice online (June 28, 2006) -
Atlantic Yards Lite?
Village Voice online (June 16, 2006) -
Carrion, Our Wayward Son
Village Voice online (June 7, 2006) -
Stealing Minnesota: Lessons of the Twins' Big Stadium
Payday
baseballprospectus.com (May 26, 2006) -
Bloomberg on Stadium Bonds: It Depends What You Mean By
'Taxes'
Village Voice online (April 25, 2006) -
Stadium costs out of the park
New York Metro (April 25, 2006) -
Theeeeeeeeeeee Yankees Win!
Village Voice online (April 6, 2006) - Yanks'
Stadium Deal Not Over Till It's Over
Village Voice online (March 29, 2006) - Two
Stadiums. No Waiting: Yanks and Mets
plans leave little room for public debate
Village Voice (March 14, 2006) - Bronx
Bummer: The Yankees' Stadium Deal, Revisited
baseballprospectus.com (February 16, 2006) -
Amazin' Mail: Mets Stadium Mailbag
baseballprospectus.com (January 31, 2006) -
Amazin' Savings: How the Mets Plan to Pass the Buck on Their New
Park
baseballprospectus.com (January 23, 2006) - Mets
to Pay Nearly Nothing for New Stadium
Village Voice online (January 19, 2006) -
Our Long Nationals Nightmare: The Roots of the D.C. Stadium
Stalemate
baseballprospectus.com (January 16, 2006) - Bloomberg
Boots Yankee Stats: City's own figures show that
the new Bronx stadium would be a money pit
Village Voice online (January 13, 2006) - Ghosts
of 2002: Contraction, Luxury Tax Back
on the Table as New CBA Dawns
baseballprospectus.com (December 5, 2005) - Yankees'
Free Lunch Gets Pricier
Village Voice online (November 18, 2005) -
Bloomberg's Gift Horse: Yanks and Mets stadiums
could cost taxpayers $800 million
Village Voice (November 14, 2005) - How
Much Is That Stadium in the Window? Determining the True Public
Costs of Big-League Ballparks
baseballprospectus.com (November 8, 2005) - Media to City: Play Ball: Making New York safe
from democracy
Extra! (September/October 2005) - The
Next White Elephant? Another Try in Oakland
baseballprospectus.com (August 15, 2005) - Countdown to the 2012 Olympics Site
Selection
ESPN the Magazine (July 4, 2005) -
A Queens Ransom: The Mets are in and the Jets are out, but where
do
the taxpayers fit in?
Village Voice (June 14, 2005) -
Twins' Stadium Deal: Three Pennies for Every 20 Bucks
baseballprospectus.com (May 26, 2005) - It
Happens Every Spring: Chasing Ballparks in Minnesota
and Florida
baseballprospectus.com (May 4, 2005) - The Statistics of Random
Chance
New York Sun (April 26, 2005) - New
Wine, Old Bottle: The Nationals Arrive in D.C.
baseballprospectus.com (April 19, 2005) - Buying
Off the Orioles: The Deal Bud Doesn't Need to Make
baseballprospectus.com (March 23, 2005) - If They
Build It, You'll Pay: Whether a stadium is built, the Olympics may
get off at another stop
Village Voice (March 1, 2005) - Thrown
for a loss in the arena of logic
New York Newsday (February 24, 2005) -
Fantasy Firefight: When IP Meets WHIP
baseballprospectus.com (February 16, 2005) -
National Treasure
Elysian Fields Quarterly (Winter 2005) - Angels
in America: Do Halos By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet?
baseballprospectus.com (January 5, 2005) - Hang
On, Youppi! What the Latest D.C. Vote Means
baseballprospectus.com (December 16, 2004) - The
National Debt: Shuffling Deck Chairs in D.C.'s Titanic Stadium
Deal
baseballprospectus.com (November 18, 2004) - The Jets'
End
Run: Will Bloomberg and Pataki spend billions without legislative
approval?
Village Voice (November 16, 2004) -
What Ruth Built, Let George Tear Asunder
Elysian Fields Quarterly (Fall 2004) - D.C.
At The Bat: Who Would Pay for Washington's New
Stadium?
baseballprospectus.com (September 28, 2004) - Whither Youppi?: The Expo-tortion Racket Is More Difficult Than It Looks
baseballprospectus.com (August 24, 2004) - Blank Check for Hudson Yards: Hidden costs to the public of Bloomberg's West Side dreams
Village Voice (August 3, 2004) - The Evil Empire Strikes Back: Steinbrenner's Plan to Have Other Teams Buy Him a Stadium
baseballprospectus.com (August 1, 2004) - Jets Zoom in on New York: Details of stadium financing as an 'investment' seep into public view
Village Voice (June 15, 2004) - The Return of Swamp Thing: Could Bringing a Team to New Jersey Work for MLB?
baseballprospectus.com (May 5, 2004) - If It's Tuesday... ...It Must Be Philadelphia
baseballprospectus.com (April 20, 2004) - A Billion Here, A Billion There: New York City heads for a stadium overdose. Guess who will be paying.
Village Voice (April 13, 2004) - 'Net' Effect: Ratner Scores Big With Our Dough
Newsday (January 27, 2004) - Laws & Sausages
Here (December 2003) - The Stadium Game: Is This the End of the Building Boom?
baseballprospectus.com (November 17, 2003) - The Man Who Would Be Kings: Wannabe 'Brooklyn Nets' Owner Ratner Already Is a Man for All Subsidies
Village Voice (November 5-11, 2003) - Jockbeat: Benedict Arthur
Village Voice (October 15-21, 2003) - Jockbeat: Youppi, Come Home
Village Voice (September 24-30, 2003) - Jockbeat: Capitalist Pigskins
Village Voice (August 13-19, 2003) - Jockbeat: Brooklyn Gets The Games
Village Voice (July 30-August 5, 2003) - Laws & Sausages
Here (July 2003) - Jockbeat: The Perils of Gamesmanship
Village Voice (July 9-15, 2003) - Jockbeat: Where Does Your Garden Go?
Village Voice (June 18-24, 2003) - Jockbeat: The Dan Who Wasn't There
Village Voice (May 7-13, 2003) - Jockbeat: Strike Up The Banned!
Village Voice (April 16-22, 2003) - Rooting for the Home Team: Athletic Supporters Say Nuts to Protesters
Village Voice (March 26-April 1, 2003) - Jockbeat: West Side Stories
Village Voice (March 5-11, 2003) - West Side Stories: Scrounging Up $3 Billion in 'New' Tax Money? Hey, No Problem
Village Voice (January 22-28, 2003) - Jockbeat: Expo 2004! Catch the Excitement!
Village Voice (December 18-24, 2002) - Jockbeat: The WNBA's Vanishing Act
Village Voice (December 11-17, 2002) - The $25 Million Man: The Real Reason Baseball Players Are So Rich
Village Voice (December 4-10, 2002) - Careful What You Bid For: Olympics Are Pricey
Newsday (November 15, 2002) - Rings and a Prayer: The City's Olympian Development Plans Rest on Smoke and Mirrors
Village Voice (November 13-19, 2002) - Jockbeat: Picking Pockets at Yankee Stadium
Village Voice (November 6-12, 2002) - Jockbeat: The Contractions Finally Stop
Village Voice (September 4-10, 2002) - Jockbeat: Baseball's Bier Man
Village Voice (August 28-September 3, 2002) - The Cable Guy: Win or Lose, Steinbrenner Wins
Village Voice (August 14-20, 2002) - Jockbeat: Ownerous Behavior
Village Voice (July 24-30, 2002) - Jockbeat: A Billion Here, A Billion There...
Village Voice (July 10-16, 2002) - The Baseball Wars: A Labor Conflict Primer
Village Voice (June 12-18, 2002) - Jockbeat: Debt of a Salesman
Village Voice (March 20-26, 2002) - The Stat-Head Revolution: Geeks Infiltrate Baseball's Front Offices; Conventional Wisdom Flees
Village Voice (March 20-26, 2002) - Jockbeat: The House That Ruthlessness Wants Built
Village Voice (January 23-29, 2002) - Jockbeat: If You Don't Build It, They Still Will Spend
Village Voice (January 16-22, 2002) - Jockbeat: Dome and Dumber
Village Voice (January 2-8, 2002) - Jockbeat: The Devil's In The Details
Village Voice (December 5-11, 2001) - Jockbeat: The Media Own The Message
Village Voice (December 5-11, 2001) - Send Money or We'll Shoot This Team: Contraction Signals That Baseball's About to Birth Something Ugly
Village Voice (November 14-20, 2001) - Jockbeat: Build It, And They Will Blow
Village Voice (August 22-28, 2001) - Jockbeat: Don't Count On It
Village Voice (August 1-7, 2001) - Jockbeat: Hide Yor Poor - The IOC's Coming!
Village Voice (July 18-24, 2001) - Jockbeat: Fields of Tax-Exempt Dreams
Village Voice (July 11-17, 2001) - 2 Sdtms, Ocean Vu, $110M: Minor-League Ball Comes to Coney and Staten Islands
Village Voice (June 20-26, 2001) - Jockbeat: Devils in the Details
Village Voice (June 13-19, 2001) - Jockbeat: Express Derailed
Village Voice (June 13-19, 2001) - Jockbeat: Chrissakes, Just Do It
Village Voice (May 23-29, 2001) - Jockbeat: Poorly Armed
Village Voice (May 23-29, 2001) - Cough It Up,
Rich!
Orlando Weekly (May 3, 2001) - Jockbeat: Fields of Schemes (Cont'd)
Village Voice (May 2-8, 2001) - Jockbeat: Express Yourself
Village Voice (April 4-10, 2001) - Jockbeat: Around the Horn
Village Voice (March 14-20, 2001) - Five Hundred Million Arguments For The Elimination Of The Super Bowl
SportsJones.com (January 24, 2001) - Jockbeat: Scribes to City: Drop Dead Presidents
Village Voice (January 24-30, 2001) - The Great Ticket Crash: The "Bottom Line" on Major League ticket prices and baseball's immediate future
SportsJones.com (January 10, 2001) - Spare The Cash, Spoil The Rod: A Q&A on the implications of Alex Rodriguez's new deal with the Texas Rangers
SportsJones.com (December 27, 2000) - Athenian Dreams or Trojan Horse?: New York's Olympic Bid Could Be Billion-Dollar Boondoggle
Village Voice (December 13-19, 2000) - ABA 2000: Do the new ABA and other upstart sports leagues have a chance in today's market?
SportsJones.com (December 13, 2000) - Gold Medal Ring Toss: Despite what boosters would have you believe, the Big Games bring Olympic-size costs and headaches to host cities.
Weekly Planet (December 7, 2000) - Mr. Selig Goes to Washington
SportsJones.com (November 29, 2000) - Jockbeat: Field of Schemes (cont'd)
Village Voice (November 22-28, 2000) - How to Win Friends and Influence Voters: The secret to successful stadium referendums
SportsJones.com (November 15, 2000) - Jockbeat: Fox Deal Bery, Bery Good to Delgado
Village Voice (October 25-31, 2000) - Jockbeat: Why Alan Can't Count
Village Voice (October 18-24, 2000) - Preening, Pride, & a Pyrrhic Prize: The world's great cities are desperate to host the Olympics. Why do they want such a boondoggle?
SportsJones.com (September 29, 2000)
Reprinted in French in Courrier International (October 5-11, 2000) - Gold Medals, Iron Fist: Olympic Protesters Face a World-Class Crackdown
Village Voice (September 13-19, 2000) - Flattening Fenway: The powers that be want to destroy Fenway Park
SportsJones.com (September 1, 2000) - Jockbeat: Field of Schemes (cont'd)
Village Voice (August 23-29, 2000) - Jockbeat: Yanks Baffled by Twins
Village Voice (August 16-22, 2000) - Time Is Now to Undo Plans to Tear Down Fenway Park
Boston Herald (July 30, 2000) - Jockbeat:Bantown
Village Voice (July 26-August 1, 2000) - The Battle of Brooklyn
Here (Issue #3, July 2000) - Beating the Bushes: Minor-League Ball Flourishes in the Shadow of the Mets and Yanks
Village Voice (June 28-July 4, 2000) - Jockbeat: Expos
Woes, Pt. 1
Village Voice (June 14-20, 2000) - Jockbeat: Phed Up in
Philly
Village Voice (June 14-20, 2000) - Jockbeat: Rudy's New Venue Blues
Village Voice (May 31-June 6, 2000) - Jocklit: Stadium Games (book review)
Village Voice (May 31-June 6, 2000) - Jockbeat: Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game
Village Voice (April 26-May 2, 2000) - Jockbeat: The High Cost of Nosebleeds
Village Voice (April 12-18, 2000) - Jockbeat: Take Me Out to the (New) Ball Yard
Village Voice (April 5-11, 2000) - Jockbeat: Everyone Loves a Parade
Village Voice (April 5-11, 2000) - Jockbeat: Fields of Schemes (Cont'd)
Village Voice (April 5-11, 2000) - Jockbeat: From the Desk of George Santayana
Village Voice (March 22-28, 2000) - Punch Like A Man: Big-Time Sports' Domestic Violence Problem
Village Voice (March 8-14, 2000) - Jockbeat: Arena League Labor Woes
Village Voice (March 1-7, 2000) - Safecopalooza, or What Has Four Scoreboards and Flies?
Elysian Fields Quarterly (Winter 2000) - Jockbeat: St. John's Not So Divine
Village Voice (February 23-29, 2000) - Jockbeat: Press Events We're Glad We Missed
Village Voice (February 16-22, 2000) - Jockbeat: Mets Go Home
Village Voice (January 26-February 1, 2000) - Jockbeat: Yankees and Devils and Jets, Oh My
Village Voice (January 19-25, 2000) - Athletes for the Ages: In the Sky with Diamonds
Village Voice (January 12-18, 2000) - Jockbeat: Baseball's Cavalcade of Bigotry
Village Voice (December 29, 1999 - January 4, 2000) - Jockbeat: Draft Dodgers
Village Voice (December 22-28, 1999) - Jockbeat: Rudy's Stadium Slugfest
Village Voice (December 8-14, 1999) - Jockbeat: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Village Voice (November 24-30, 1999) - This Used To Be My Playground: Giuliani's plans for a Parade Grounds ballpark leave kids out in the cold
Village Voice (November 17-23, 1999) - Throwing the Game: Conflicts of interest prevent tough coverage of sports issues
Extra! (November/December 1999) - Jockbeat: Error, Comptroller
Village Voice (October 20-26, 1999) - Don't Worry; A's Aren't Leaving: There's no place left to go and too much money at stake for baseball team to leave Oakland
San Francisco Chronicle (October 12, 1999) - Jockbeat: Et Tu, Roger?
Village Voice (October 6-12, 1999) - WNBA Wrap-up: The Finals, the ABL effect, the dyke factor, and more
SportsJones.com (September 17, 1999) - A Death In Louisiana: On August 19, Kim Perrot died of cancer. Was this a random tragedy, or did her environment make her sick?
SportsJones.com (September 1, 1999) - Jockbeat: The Teams They Are A-Changing
Village Voice (September 1-7, 1999) - Jockbeat: Market Envy
Village Voice (August 25-31, 1999) - Hoopla: A report from the WNBA All-Star Game, the new choice of fans not named Calista Flockhart
SportsJones.com (July 26, 1999) - Holdsclaw Hype: Don't believe the ballyhoo -- it's the game that counts
SportsJones.com (June 15, 1999) - Hard Ball: The Abuse of Power in Pro Team Sports (book review)
SportsJones.com (June 2, 1999) - Sox And Sausages: The Boston Red Sox fire the first shots in the war to bring down Fenway Park
SportsJones.com (May 21, 1999) - Jockbeat: Bush-League Deal For Major-League City
Village Voice (March 31-April 6, 1999) - Confessions of a Suddenly Reluctant Yankee Fan
Elysian Fields Quarterly (Spring 1999) - Jockbeat: Your Name Here
Village Voice (March 10-16, 1999) - Can A Ballpark Figure?
This Magazine (March/April 1999) - The United Stadia of America
Architecture (November 1998) - Bizbrawl: How the heavy hitters are fighting to control the planet
The New York Times Magazine (October 18, 1998) (with Joanna Cagan) - Field of Schemes: Scamming a new stadium with overblown claims of structural flaws
Village Voice (April 28, 1998) (with Joanna Cagan) - Ballpark Giveaways Go 0 for 2
In These Times (December 28, 1997) - Buy The Bums Out: Public ownership of teams is an idea whose time has come -- but the sports barons will fight it tooth and nail
In These Times (December 9, 1996) (with Joanna Cagan) - The Great Stadium Swindle
In These Times (August 19, 1996) (with Joanna Cagan) - Root, Root, Root For The Home Team: Local media push public subsidies for private stadiums
Extra! (July/August 1996) (with Joanna Cagan) - Slope
Weighs One-Way Byways
Village Voice online (March 16, 2007) -
"Parking Rock Star" Donald Shoup Plays Broadway
Streetsblog (March 13, 2007) - New Costs
Threaten to Derail No. 7 Extension
City Hall (March 2007) - Punch Like A Man: Big-Time Sports' Domestic Violence Problem
Village Voice (March 8-14, 2000) -
For the poor, holiday leftovers
Metro NY (January 2, 2008) -
The Poor Will Always Be With Us: Just not on the
TV news
Extra! (September 10, 2007) - For
Disabled Poor, WeCARE Doesn't
Village Voice online (March 5, 2007) - Bloomberg's Cash-Back Plan for Poor
Village Voice online (January 18, 2007) -
As Bloomberg Crafts Anti-Poverty Specifics, Optimism and Worries
City Hall (January 2007) -
Bloomberg Launches War of Words on Poverty
Village Voice online (December 19, 2006) - The Smell of
Success: After 10 years of 'welfare reform,' ignoring the human
impact
Extra! (November/December 2006) -
Welfare Chief: New Federal Law Could Soak City
Village Voice online (October 12, 2006) -
Actual Poor People Rate Bloomy's Poverty Plan
Village Voice online (September 25, 2006) - Katrina's Vanishing
Victims:
Media forget the 'rediscovered' poor
Extra! (July/August 2006) -
Feds to New York: Quit Coddling Your Huddled
Masses
Village Voice online (June 29, 2006) -
The Squeeze Is On: Bad news for poor kids: Under new welfare law,
state
has to meet yet another 'quota' of cuts
Village Voice (May 3-9, 2006) - Review
of Stephen Pimpare's The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics, & Propaganda
in Two Gilded Ages
History News Network (November 2004) - Personal Responsibility: One Family's Relationship with Welfare Reform
Clamor (July/August 2004) - School's Out: New welfare rules could put education out of reach
In These Times (October 6, 2003) - New Welfare Law Just Makes Matters Worse
Newsday (October 2, 2003) - The Candidates on the Poor
In These Times (October 1, 2003) - No Strings Attached: Washington's newest poverty plan: end government aid as we know it.
City Limits (November 2002) - Bad to Worse: Welfare Reform Is Up for Reauthorization, But It's Only Going to Get Meaner
In These Times (September 2, 2002) - Declaring Victory in the Welfare Debate: "Reform" is working, say media--but what does that mean?
Extra! (May/June 2002) - America's Disappeared: What really happened to those who left welfare
In These Times (October 30, 2000) - A Welfare Success -- but the Program Died: Coverage of Minnesota study exposes media confusion on poverty
Extra! (September/October 2000) - Turning The Tables: Welfare reform faces a time limit of its own
In These Times (June 12, 2000) - Father Knows Best: Welfare reformers want to push marriage on poor moms
In These Times (February 7, 2000) - Invisible Hands (book review of: No Shame In My Game, by Katherine Newman, "So You Think I Drive A Cadillac?" by Karen Seccombe, and Don't Call Us Out of Name, by Lisa Dodson)
In These Times (May 30, 1999) - Food Stamp Drop Spurs Fed Probe
In These Times (December 27, 1998) - Jason's Brain Trust: Welfare chief Jason Turner has big plans for the city's poor. His history and his hand-picked assistants suggest that New York's welfare recipients are in for a tough ride.
City Limits (October 1998) (with Carl Vogel) - The Turner Diaries
In These Times (August 9, 1998) - Same Old Welfare Stories
In These Times (July 12, 1998) - Move 'Em Out: What really happened to the 1.4 million people who left welfare
In These Times (December 14, 1997) - Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind: 1.4 million welfare recipients get disappeared
Extra! (November/December 1997) - An end to slave wages?
In These Times (June 16, 1997) - Are there no workhouses?
In These Times (January 20, 1997) - Following The Parties' Line On Welfare "Reform": When Democrats and Republicans agree, don't look for media debate
Extra! (November/December 1996) - Mean, Base, Downright Lowdown: President Clinton signs the anti-welfare bill
Z magazine (October 1996) - Churn, Churn, Churn: "Welfare reform" reveals its true face
Z magazine (February 1996)
Selected Writings
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