Michael Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist known for never letting the political elite forget their job is to represent taxpayers. He started his career with The New York Times as a housing reporter and then City Hall bureau chief. He was the editorial page editor at the Daily News, where he directed a series of reports on the Apollo Theater that won the Pulitzer. A series documenting abuse of farmworkers earned the board the Polk Award. In 2000, he was named executive editor of the News and returned to column writing in 2004.
When President Obama started talking at his news conference Monday, I listened intently for 15 minutes or so. Then I got fidgety as his half-truths about the debt grew into full-blown whoppers. As he droned on, I did...
July 13, 2011 12:00 AMDennis Walcott might want to introduce his left hand to his right hand. They have a lot to talk about. The chancellor's promise to teachers that he would examine charges that principals are promoting failing...
July 10, 2011 12:00 AM
In the School of Scandal textbook, the first rule of holes is to stop digging. When you've made a mis take, don't get yourself in any deeper. The Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., apparently is now...
July 06, 2011 12:00 AMThe second sentence of the Declaration of Inde pendence contains the most beautiful song of human liberation ever composed. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are...
July 03, 2011 12:00 AM
With few exceptions, the raging educational debate offers New Yorkers a binary choice: The union is the problem, or there isn't enough money. Choose one. It's not just a false choice. It's a stupid choice. At...
June 29, 2011 12:00 AMAttention New York City teachers. Chancellor Dennis Walcott wants to hear directly your accusa tions about false attend ance reports and pressure from principals to pass students who should be failing. And he promises...
June 26, 2011 12:00 AM
Palin Derangement Syndrome strikes again. The victim this time is dangerously contagious. In a bombshell announcement, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller publicly confessed his sickness. OK, he didn't put...
June 22, 2011 12:00 AMGov. Cuomo's aim to cap proper ty-tax hikes and refusal to sup port higher income taxes are part of his pledge to end New York's ruinous addiction to spending. So far, so good, but Cuomo is falling short on another...
June 19, 2011 12:00 AM
Hold the tears and sympathy. Anthony Weiner is only sorry he got caught. Now we know why he found it so easy to lie to the cameras and his wife for most of the last three weeks. He's still lying to himself about...
June 17, 2011 12:00 AM
Say this for Mayor Bloomberg: He's consistent about his view of numbers. Those that make him look good are important, those that don't, aren't. The mayor's single-minded determination to portray himself as a model...
June 15, 2011 12:00 AMSoon after Anthony Weiner mixed his creepy confession with defiance about keeping his job, a few Democrats called for him to resign. "The dam is breaking," one story said, predicting that a flood of colleagues would...
June 12, 2011 12:00 AM
Imagine you go to a restaurant and Anthony Weiner is your waiter. Do you have the stomach for dinner? Imagine you call an electrician and Weiner shows up at your home. Do you let him in? Imagine he is your...
June 08, 2011 12:00 AMThe teachers changed my mind. I did not plan to pub lish more letters today about the scourge of social promotion in New York schools, but the passionate outpouring from frustrated educators cannot be ignored. They...
June 05, 2011 12:00 AM
After reading my reports from New York teachers who say they are forced to raise grades and pass failing students, a friend has questions. He writes: "If nine years of mayoral control, all sorts of experimentation and...
June 01, 2011 12:00 AMThe e-mail box runneth over with bad tidings. Teachers are reporting that cheating is rampant in New York City schools -- and they claim principals are the culprits. The reports are responding to my column that...
May 29, 2011 12:00 AMAfter Benjamin Netan yahu rejected President Obama's demand for Is raeli concessions in the Oval Office last week, a television anchor said the Israeli leader treated the president like a "schoolboy." In that case,...
May 25, 2011 12:00 AMOn It's face, the lawsuit filed by the teachers union to block the closing of 22 city schools is an obvious scam to protect union jobs. But in a deeper sense, the suit perfectly illustrates what ails the entire...
May 22, 2011 12:00 AM
Unhappy with the results of a biography years ago, volatile basketball coach Bobby Knight alter nately called the author a pimp and a whore. To which the author, John Feinstein, memorably responded: "I wish he would...
May 18, 2011 12:00 AMThe winter of public discon tent with Mayor Bloom berg has turned into the spring of white-hot anger. If he's got any more Kool- Aid in his emergency kit, Bloomy better break it out now because the natives are...
May 15, 2011 12:00 AM
Imagine this nightmare. In stead of sending a team of SEALs to ice Osama bin Laden, President Obama sent a team of negotiators to see if we could talk the terror lord into promises of peace. All he had to do was say...
May 11, 2011 12:00 AMYears ago, when my young son and I visited a dude ranch in Montana, a local rancher told us he butch ered his cows for meat. My son, Scott, who was only 7, was horrified. "You kill your own cows and eat them?" he asked...
May 08, 2011 12:00 AMWith apologies to that great Chicago philos opher Rahm Ema nuel, euphoria is a terrible thing to waste. And so Barack Obama, fresh from bagging Public Enemy No. 1, has a fresh opportunity to do even greater things for...
May 04, 2011 12:00 AM
Years from now, with generations long passed, we will better understand the bookends of our times. The first started an era and came on that blue-sky morning of Sept. 11, when the Twin Towers fell and, in an instant,...
May 02, 2011 12:00 AMDid you see what Gov. Cuomo did? Did you hear what he said? Of course, you didn't. Nobody did. That's the plan -- to be the stealth governor. It's a strange strategy, but so far, it's working. The report...
May 01, 2011 12:00 AM
At a recent gathering in New York, a writer with ties to the British government reported that the view from the other side of the pond is that "the leader of the free world doesn't want to lead the free world." On...
April 27, 2011 12:00 AM
First, the bad news. If you're keeping score at home, another day passed with more slaughter of demonstrators in the streets of Syria without serious objection from the White House. The stalemate in Libya remained a...
April 20, 2011 12:00 AMElections have conse quences, we are told, but the admonition usually refers to how results shape subsequent events. Yet as last week's huge battle over puny budget trims proved, America already is suffering from an...
April 17, 2011 12:00 AM
For a generation, it has been an article of faith in Albany that no politician could win election while supporting cuts in health care and education. Whether that was actually true was unclear because the mere fear of...
April 13, 2011 12:00 AM"It's water over the dam, under the bridge," Mayor Bloomberg said in ducking a question about Cathie Black. But for that to be true, Bloomberg must turn the end of her tenure into a jump-start of his own. If he...
April 10, 2011 12:00 AM
Eric Holder is too good for America. He knows best -- he said so himself! -- yet this nation of fools and bigots, aided and abetted by a cowardly Congress, won't heed his word. Such, in essence, is the graceless...
April 06, 2011 12:00 AM
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