Bob McManus is editorial page editor of The New York Post. He joined The Post in 1984 as chief editorial writer, specializing in state and local political and policy issues. He has written on national security and related matters. He was deputy editorial page editor from 1990 until March, 2000, when he assumed full responsibility for the newspaper’s opinion pages. McManus came to The Post from the Albany, N.Y., Times-Union, where he covered state and local issues as a reporter and as an editor. He was executive city editor of The Times-Union between 1976 and 1981. He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy’s submarine service, and was a member of the class of 1971 at Siena College, Loudonville, N.Y. McManus resides in Manhattan.
It was late on a Sat urday night, and a long-retired Hugh Leo Carey -- his face wrapped in that forbidding scowl New York came to know so well -- seemed very bored indeed. But he brightened when asked about the...
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March 08, 2011 12:00 AM
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February 28, 2011 12:00 AM
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February 22, 2011 12:00 AM
Saints preserve us! Has Irish America lost its sense of humor? Could be. At least nobody was laughing at Mayor Bloomberg's off-the-cuff attempt at ethnic drollery, delivered Wednesday to the American Irish...
February 12, 2011 12:00 AM
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February 02, 2011 12:00 AM
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January 03, 2011 12:00 AM
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November 04, 2010 12:00 AM
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November 18, 2009 12:00 AMUSS Growler rode high in the water at the Intrepid Mu seum on the West Side of Manhattan Thursday, sparkling slate-gray in the midday sunshine though dwarfed by the historic aircraft carrier tied up across Pier 86....
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May 27, 2007 5:00 AMCLINT Eastwood can make a movie, that's for sure, but who'd ever have thought that the creator of uber-tough-cop Dirty Harry Callahan would someday embrace the Rodney King "Can't We All Just Get Along" school of...
February 25, 2007 5:00 AMOne can only imagine what was running through George Pata ki's head yesterday afternoon as he sat in the damp and chill of an outdoors Albany afternoon in January and listened to the inaugural address of his successor,...
January 02, 2007 5:00 AM
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