Rex Smith: What’s real and what is an illusion?
Our newsroom is in receipt of a taxpayer-funded email sent by one of the more odd figures in the New York state Legislature – a distinction not easily won, you may imagine – who, with a rare double...
View ArticleRex Smith: New Yorkers’ values, and Texans’, too
Seeing as how I’m an immigrant to New York – and one considered a newcomer, at that, since I’ve only been a New Yorker for 36 years – I can be more dispassionate than most folks when it comes to...
View ArticleRex Smith: Florida Man seeks votes in New York
Ballots were still being counted in Florida’s presidential primary when I landed there on a short business trip this week, but the outcome wasn’t in doubt: another win for New York’s gift to the GOP,...
View ArticleRex Smith: Curtain rises on New York party shows
There’s a lot of stagecraft in politics, and this year’s big partisan shows have been lighting up New York’s Great White Way – and its more far-flung neighborhoods, including ours – for a couple of...
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