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Beware the Return of For-Profit Schools
By Liza Featherstone
Republicans in the New York State Senate have included, in their version of the budget, a provision allowing for-profit companies to establish charter schools.
Occupy Main Street
By Paul McLeanOccupy Wall Street needs to realize how essential Main Street is to a sustainable and meaningful life for so many 99%ers.
FIGHTING FOR THE SLAVE: a photo essay
By Jim LaffertyThe Slave Theater on Fulton Street in Bed-Stuy is a place with a storied past and a complicated present.
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Ending Mayoral Control
By Liza Featherstone
The sober sixth grader was small for his age and wore a handsome pinstriped suit, just the kind of suit a mother wants her son to wear.
The CLEANING of a GREAT CITY
(McClure’s, April 1897)
By George E. Waring, Jr. Commissioner of Street Cleaning, New York
The tendency to ascribe former defects of the Department of Street Cleaning in New York city to one political party, as such, seems to me not to be fair.
Faith in Filmmaking
By Eleanor J. BaderProspect Lefferts Gardens resident Faith Pennick is a feminist and a filmmaker. But that doesn’t mean she wants to be called a feminist filmmaker.
