Jon Campbell
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HHS Plans to Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week
Experts say the database of carefully curated medical guidelines is one of a kind, used constantly by medical professionals, and on July 16 will ‘go dark’ due to budget cuts. → Read More
New York Just Saved a Law Used to Jail Thousands of Minorities
No DA has prosecuted ‘gravity knife’ crimes more aggressively than Manhattan's Cy Vance. Gov. Andrew Cuomo killed a bill that could’ve changed that. → Read More
NYC Spends $20M for Security at Private Schools, Including City’s Priciest
For an annual tuition of over $46,000, the Dalton School on the Upper East Side serves up about the best education money can buy. It offers advanced robotics programs, Broadway-worthy theater productions, and library facilities rivaling those of many colleges. It’s a far cry from the city’s public schools, plagued as they are by inequities and often struggling to provide extras beyond a basic… → Read More
Demonstrators Greet Trump on Return to New York
Donald Trump returned to New York last night for the first time since his election as president and was greeted by throngs of jeering protesters... → Read More
De Blasio’s FOIL Office Took Six Months to Release a Picture of an Ice Cream Cone
Mayor Bill de Blasio made headlines back in May when he held a ceremony to honor legendarily dogged muckraker Jimmy Breslin and then refused to... → Read More
NYPD Watchdog: Too Many Cops Are Preventing The Public From Filming Them
The Civilian Complaint Review Board, New York’s police watchdog organization, released a report on NYPD interference with civilian photography, concluding that “officer interference with civilian... → Read More
Gravity Knife Reform Appears Blocked By GOP In State Senate
A state senator from Brooklyn has emerged as a major stumbling block in the drive to reform New York’s controversial “gravity knife” law, an effort... → Read More
NY’s Parasitic Private Energy Scammers Are Digging In Their Heels
New York’s private energy retailers — the sometimes predatory, often annoying companies many New Yorkers know from late-night phone calls and persistent door-to-door sales pitches... → Read More
The Life And Death Of Kenneth Bostick
Kenneth Bostick, a transgender person killed in Chelsea this month, was a quiet and unassuming presence with a penchant for Wayfarer sunglasses and wool beanies,... → Read More
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Sharpens Need To Cut Bogus “Gravity Knife” Law, Pol Says
Democratic lawmakers in Albany are once again trying to reform New York State’s broadly criticized “gravity knife” law, seeing new urgency in an era when... → Read More
Grateful Dead Doc “Long Strange Trip” Treads Old Ground Vividly
Don’t expect Amir Bar-Lev’s Long Strange Trip, a sweeping if not very penetrating look at the thirty-year career of the Grateful Dead, to offer major... → Read More
Still No Arrest In Killing Of Kenneth Bostick, Transgender Man Widely Misgendered In Initial Reports
There are still no charges in the death of Kenneth Bostick, a transgender man fatally attacked in Chelsea on April 25, but the NYPD says a “person of... → Read More
Brenda Bostick, Killed In Chelsea, Becomes The 10th Transgender Woman Killed In America This Year
The NYPD is investigating the death of Brenda Bostick, 59, a transgender woman who was assaulted in Chelsea on April 25 and succumbed to her injuries on Thursday. She is the tenth transgender woman of color killed in the United States this year, according to GLAAD. “This is a dispute... → Read More
Mayor De Blasio Is Super Chill About His Correction Department Taking Vacations With City Vehicles
Mayor Bill de Blasio vigorously defended Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte today after a report from the city's Department of Investigation found that he and his staff were in the habit of taking trips to the Hamptons, Coastal Maine, and Mohegan Sun casino with city vehicles, a glaring violation of... → Read More
Why Does Bill de Blasio Keep Violating His Own FOIL Laws?
A year-long Village Voice investigation shows how Mayor de Blasio’s administration fails to live up to Freedom of Information Law standards he himself set. → Read More
Lawmakers Respond To AG Session's Threats Against "Sanctuary Cities": See You In Court
U.S. attorney general and Deliverance extra Jeff Sessions engaged in some budgetary saber rattling yesterday, threatening to make good on a Trump Administration executive order that promised to withhold federal funding from cities that resist its hardline immigration stances. In comments in the White House briefing room, Sessions pledged that... → Read More
ACLU: Trump's New Travel Ban "Shares The Same Fatal Flaws" As The First
President Donald Trump signed a revised version of his travel ban on Monday, more than a month after the original executive order caused chaos at the... → Read More
Hear Something About An Immigration Raid? Here's How To Safely Report It
The threats posed to immigrant communities by the Trump Administration are real and metastasizing daily, and people are understandably on high alert for whatever might be coming next. Some of that well-warranted vigilance is amplified on social media, where people trying to get the word out about Immigration and Customs... → Read More
Gavin McInnes Wants You to Know He’s Totally Not a White Supremacist
On February 8, Washington Square News (WSN), one of NYU's student papers, ran a correction of sorts in an editorial, headlined: "McInnes: You Are Not a Nazi, Please Stop Harassing Us." It was a reference to an earlier story that implied that Gavin McInnes — one of the founders of... → Read More
Federal Judges Refuse To Reinstate Trump's Travel Ban
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit denied the Trump administration’s bid to reinstate a ban on travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries. With the limited information so far presented in the case, the court wrote, “the Government has not shown a likelihood of success on the merits... → Read More