Category: Editorial

Mayor Bill de Blasio, speaking at a financial meeting on Tuesday, 3 Aug., has refused to mandate the use of indoor masks in the face of the Delta variant becoming the dominant strain of the Coronavirus in New York City. The Delta variant is reportedly highly-transmissible, and Mayor de Blasio has no plan to reduce community spread of the dangerous strain. NYC Mayor's Office (YouTube/Fair Use)

EDITORIAL : After Mayor de Blasio’s embrace of laissez-faire public health, it’s up to New Yorkers to weather the Delta variant on their own

Mayor Bill de Blasio has no plan to reduce community spread of the dangerous Delta variant. As a result, people are on their own to “bend the curve” of infections.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio at a media availability on June 10, 2021, discussed his most preferred pizza toppings as the City of New York was about to implement new, opaque reporting for weekly Coronavirus variant sequencing studies. Increasingly, the mayor is mastering "performative" media availabilities to distract a jaded City Hall press corps. NYC Mayor's Office (YouTube/Fair Use)

EDITORIAL : Mayor Bill de Blasio is obfuscating COVID-19 sequencing studies, masking the growth of the Delta variant, and the consequences could be deadly.

EDITORIAL : Mayor Bill de Blasio is obfuscating COVID-19 sequencing studies, masking the growth of the Delta variant, and the consequences could be deadly.

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Shopkeepers in Jackson Heights, Queens, prepared on 5 June 2020 for potential riots by boarding-up small businesses operating alongst 37th Ave. in Queens. Despite irrational fears, looters have a right to assemble. Progress New York/File Photograph

EDITORIAL : Looters have a right to assemble, too

The NYPD appear to target activists by imposing “burdens” based on ideology, for example on looters. But looters have a right to assemble, since First Amendment rights are not qualified by ideology.

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The U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn is one of two Federal prosecutors' offices that consult with the New York Police Department before police respond to large-scale public protests. A lack of transparency by both Federal and Municipal law enforcement may be to blame for the NYPD's culture of secrecy. Progress New York/File Photograph

EDITORIAL : To restore faith in Government, U.S. Attorneys must shine a light of transparency on the NYPD

Public confidence in Government has collapsed due to systemic racism and corruption. To restore faith in Government, U.S. Attorneys must bring transparency to the NYPD.

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Bodies of people, who have died from the Coronavirus pandemic, have been stored in large refrigerator trucks outside of medical facilities. One such truck is parked on West 12th Street, near 7th Ave. South, in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan. Staff Photograph

Editorial : St. Vincent’s Hospital closing and the collapse of public health before Coronavirus

What role did hospital closings, like St. Vincent’s in Manhattan, have on the collapse of public health in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic ?

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"I am not a biased judge," is what U.S. District Court Judge John Koeltl proverbially claimed during a Court Conference 19 October 2017, to nobody's belief. Photo Illustration/Fair Use (President Richard Nixon photo by Associated Press ; John Koeltl by NYU)

To restore public confidence in the U.S. District Court for S.D.N.Y., Judge John Koeltl must resign

EDITORIAL : No amount of reasoning, or judicial complaints, has compelled S.D.N.Y. Judge John Koeltl to introspectively examine the causes or sources of his bias and misconduct. As a result, he must resign.

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When the Feds let Political Machines use smooth transitions of power to avoid accountability
Will the Queens Machine be able to avoid the consequences of a long of corruption, so long as it puts into effect a smooth transition of power to another Congressional lawmaker ? Photo Illustration/Progress New York

Some mob families have succession plans. So does the Queens Machine.

EDITORIAL : Any political transition of power that lends legitimacy to the ways that the Queens Machine has been allowed to corrupt democratic functions will fail to restore the public’s dwindling faith in Government institutions.

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