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Tom Robbins

@tommy_robb

Ex-Village Voice, The City, Daily News, NY Observer, City Limits, Dover Garage. CUNY Craig Newmark Journalism School. [email protected]

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A foreign policy modeled on a Mafia shakedown racket and Meade Esposito’s political machine: You gotta give to get. nytimes.com/2025/02/25/wor


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A very different Adams readies a run for mayor: “We have an anti-woman tyrant in the White House, who's creating chaos on a federal level and it's making life less affordable and stable for working families,” gothamist.com/news/adrienne-
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In 2023, Frank Carone was asked if he worried about challengers to Eric Adams. He said his only concern was “someone who we don’t yet know – a black woman who is middle of the road, good on her feet with charisma. She wld be a real challenge.” nytimes.com/2025/02/27/nyr


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In 2023, Eric Adams advisor Frank Carone was asked if any rivals worried him. He said he worried “about someone who we don’t yet know – a black woman who is middle of the road, good on her feet with charisma. She would be a real challenge.” nytimes.com/2025/02/27/nyr
 via The New York Times

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Andrew Cuomo once founded a nonprofit to help the homeless. Now his first words as a mayoral candidate invokes fear of them. “You feel it when you walk down the street and try not to make eye contact with a mentally ill homeless person,” gothamist.com/news/former-go
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Talking with ace veteran reporter Larry McShane about some real mobsters, unlike the wannabes in the Oval Office. Deadline NYC - Monday March 3 5PM WBAI New York at 99.5 FM, streaming at wbai.org 99.5FM Streaming wbai.org

Talking with ace veteran reporter Larry McShane about some real mobsters, unlike the wannabes in the Oval Office.
 Deadline NYC - Monday March 3 5PM
<a href="/WBAI/">WBAI New York at 99.5 FM, streaming at wbai.org</a> 99.5FM Streaming wbai.org
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Talking with ace veteran reporter Larry McShane about some real mobsters, unlike the wannabes in the Oval Office. Deadline NYC - TODAY March 3 5PM WBAI New York at 99.5 FM, streaming at wbai.org 99.5FM Streaming wbai.org

Talking with ace veteran reporter Larry McShane about some real mobsters, unlike the wannabes in the Oval Office.  
Deadline NYC - TODAY  March 3 5PM
<a href="/WBAI/">WBAI New York at 99.5 FM, streaming at wbai.org</a> 99.5FM Streaming wbai.org
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The birth date today of Jim Dwyer, extraordinary journalist, true New Yorker, and marvelous man whose way with words like these is still greatly missed: nytimes.com/2020/05/26/nyr
 via The New York Times

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Rerun: A talk from a couple years ago about Hurricane Carter and other wrongful convictions with the late great reporter Selwyn Raab (who, despite his obit, was a very funny man.) Deadline NYC - TODAY - Monday March 10 5PM WBAI New York at 99.5 FM, streaming at wbai.org 99.5FM Streaming wbai.org

Rerun: A talk from a couple years ago about Hurricane Carter and other wrongful convictions with the late great reporter Selwyn Raab (who, despite his obit, was a very funny man.)
Deadline NYC - TODAY - Monday March 10 5PM
<a href="/WBAI/">WBAI New York at 99.5 FM, streaming at wbai.org</a> 99.5FM Streaming wbai.org
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Talking with SOFFIYAH ELIJAH of Alliance of Families for Justice about the late great Antonio Yarbough and the crisis in NY's prisons. Deadline NYC - Monday March 17 5PM WBAI New York at 99.5 FM, streaming at wbai.org 99.5FM Streaming wbai.org

Talking with SOFFIYAH ELIJAH of Alliance of Families for Justice about the late great Antonio Yarbough and the crisis in NY's prisons.
Deadline NYC - Monday March 17 5PM
<a href="/WBAI/">WBAI New York at 99.5 FM, streaming at wbai.org</a> 99.5FM Streaming wbai.org
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Talking with SOFFIYAH ELIJAH of Alliance of Families for Justice about the late great Antonio Yarbough and the crisis in NY's prisons. Deadline NYC - Monday March 17 5PM WBAI New York at 99.5 FM, streaming at wbai.org 99.5FM Streaming wbai.org

Talking with SOFFIYAH ELIJAH of Alliance of Families for Justice about the late great Antonio Yarbough and the crisis in NY's prisons. 
Deadline NYC - Monday March 17 5PM
<a href="/WBAI/">WBAI New York at 99.5 FM, streaming at wbai.org</a> 99.5FM Streaming wbai.org
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The judge: "Everything here smacks of a bargain: dismissal of the indictment in exchange for policy concessions." nytimes.com/interactive/20


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In the puzzling mind of Eric Adams, he can cite David Dinkins in the morning as his role model ("This is the same playbook from David Dinkins. This is no different.") and then tell NYers to read a book by Trump acolyte Kash Patel about in the afternoon. nytimes.com/2025/04/02/nyr


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21 years later, a wrongful conviction in Buffalo ends in largest settlement ever. democratandchronicle.com/story/news/202