It’s Wednesday, so it must be time for the annual speculation about moving a third MLB team to the New York area: Normally, the Tampa Bay Rays complaining that their home stadium is a dump wouldn’t be news here in … Continue reading
More than you ever wanted to know about the fate of Brooklyn’s last surviving big-league ballpark wall: The saga of the last surviving Brooklyn ballpark wall just keeps getting murkier and murkier. The latest news: Con Ed, which since the … Continue reading
So here we are again: Watching scenes of unimaginable devastation, of people crying out “Help us!” (or in this case, “Amwe!“) while the world watches and waits for rescuers to arrive. And again, we are told over and over that … Continue reading
No Child Left Behind, Bloomberg’s testing fetish, and their myriad effects on city classrooms. It was not Mayor Bloomberg’s proudest moment. Last month, the federal government released New York City schools’ rankings on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) … Continue reading
For those of you in New York City and environs, I’m going to be returning from my long hiatus from live music the week after next, performing songs from my never-to-be-released CD “More Songs About Buildings and Gentrification.” I’ll be … Continue reading
Years after first weighing in on the Washington Park controversy, I get to revisit the question of just whose ballpark wall is still standing in Brooklyn: After all the hoohah over the last surviving remnant of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ home … Continue reading
Dunno if the copyediting staff at the New York Times is all suffering from fruitcake hangovers or what, but today was not their brightest hour. First off, a headline on the front of the B section teasing a sports story … Continue reading
For those of you who’ve been reading my biweekly (and before that weekly) columns in Metro New York for the last two years: I just got word that the Voices op-ed section will be discontinued at the end of this … Continue reading
In reading this AP story about the removal of the last remnants of a public option from the health reform bill, it occurred to me: Do journalists intentionally avoid explaining certain issues because if they did, one side would sound, … Continue reading