Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Barrett: Christie and Giuliani Both Share Mob Family Ties — And Not Coming Clean About It By Wayne Barrett in Featured, Wayne Barrett Thursday, Sep. 24 2009 @ 9:42AM Christie.jpg Rudy Giuliani, the cloud hanging over the storm in New...
WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
A 20-year news quiz looks at some of the biggest stories that Brian has covered - or missed while on vacation - since 1989. Guest quizmasters include WNYC President Laura Walker ; Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page ; actress Rosie Perez ; Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice ; author Sarah Vowell ; Brian's long-lost cousin Jim Lehrer ; and more!
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
As the reality of just how little Mike Bloomberg got for all of his election cash outlay really sinks in, the mayor continues to try to present his sorry showing as a bold departure from the anti-incumbent trend that characterized so many other races in the region and around the country. But, as Wayne Barrett points out , it's simply the old lipstick on a pig metaphor at play: "The...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... Party") and Bloomberg's challenger Bill Thompson got 478,521. The Village Voice's Wayne Barrett says , "Bloomberg will also get the lowest total vote of any mayoral winner in a two-candidate race since 1917, when John Hylan got 314,000 votes. Ed Koch got 868,000 votes when he ran for a third term in 1985, hundreds of thousands more than Bloomberg." Oh, and Bloomberg...
City Room (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... technologies and the mayor’s campaign against illegal guns coming into the city. Take a look at Wayne Barrett’s book on Mayor Giuliani. He offers a critique of how the city measures crime and argues that the decreases may be as much a manipulation of data as real decreases. Unemployment and poverty are increasing, so one might think that crime would also begin to increase. The rate...
No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... area—Alphabet City. But nobody did anything about it. (Last month The Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett started looking more in-depth into this Bloomberg-favored scheme.) Next up on the tax-exempt bonds tour is developer Forest City Ratner’s proposed Nets arena in Brooklyn. The big difference between Ratner’s arena and Yankee Stadium is that Ratner has yet to be...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
As the State Commission on Public Integrity begins an inquiry into Governor David Paterson's allegedly unethical attendance at a World Series game, it's worth recalling Mayor Rudy Giuliani's exponentially more long-lasting, fruitful, and unethical relationship with the Yankees. Giuliani was always at Yankee games, but as the Village Voice 's Wayne Barrett reported a couple of years ago,...
WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Democratic Mayoral candidate Bill Thompson has made term limits a central issue in the mayoral election. Oliver Koppell , NYC council member ( D-11 ), and Wayne Barrett , senior editor at the Village Voice and veteran political reporter, discuss the term limits issue and if it will play a role in the outcome of next week's election.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... expensive area—Alphabet City. But nobody did anything about it. (Last month The Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett started looking more in-depth into this Bloomberg-favored scheme.) Next up on the tax-exempt bonds tour is developer Forest City Ratner’s proposed Nets arena in Brooklyn. The big difference between Ratner’s arena and Yankee Stadium is that Ratner has yet to be approved for...
The Denver Business Journal (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... in Denver, it is fortunate that most developers — ProLogis included — did not overdevelop here,” Wayne Barrett, ProLogis’ vice president and market officer in Denver, said in a statement. “As a result, Denver has remained reasonably well occupied.”Only 75,000 square feet of new industrial space was completed in this year’s third quarter, according to a report by the Denver branch...
No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... owners would normally be a scandal, except in NYC, where it is just business as usual. From Wayne Barrett's Village Voice feature this week, headlined A Bloomberg Score Card: The Mayor's Hits and Misses: The evidence that top officials of the Bloomberg administration reversed land assessments for the Yankees deal to artificially jack up the value in order to qualify for the tax-exempt...
No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
The Village Voice by Wayne Barrett The Voice's venerable political reporter weighs the plusses and minuses of a third Bloomberg act. One definite minus: arenapalooza. As much as the city ought to name a hospital after Mayor Mike, it is more likely to name a stadium or arena. He has certainly spent enough of our money on them to pay for the naming rights. If he gets a pre-election Yankees...
