Bob McManus
The Archive
Mayor Adams' crazy scheme to have parents be school security guards
The Adams administration just ditched a new class of rookie school-safety officers — and Hizzoner says maybe parents should step in and take up the slack. Talk about your intersectionality!
Latest migrant poll should scare the hell out of Democrats
A new poll says 84% of New Yorkers think the state’s migrant mess is a serious problem. The remaining 16% are zombied-out addicts living in parks and subway tunnels.
Gov. Hochul cowardly backpedals on criticizing Joe Biden's border
Hey, boys and girls. Can you follow the bouncing Kathy? Sunday, Gov. Hochul delivered a spot-on explanation for New York’s current dilemma — for how it came to be stuffed...
Governor Hochul suddenly realizes we have a border crisis
New York has been awash in budget-busting border crossers for many months now, and Gov. Hochul has been in near-total denial.
Asking the public to carry OD-reviving Narcan is the liberal government giving up
Word that NYC set a drug-overdose death-toll record last year was underscored this week by the health commissioner's proposal that everybody now pack an OD rescue kit.
Gov. Hochul finally realizes truth -- NYC can't house the world
The White House on Wednesday announced that some Venezuelans amongst the tens of thousands of border-crossers packed into New York state will be eligible for an expedited work-permit process.
New York's very serious City Council never fails to take up our most pressing issues... right?
The New York City Council has advanced a bill that would remove historical figures like Christopher Columbus and George Washington from city property.
Cuomo? Oh no! Ex-NY gov should not be the one to save us from Biden-Trump
A Wall Street Journal columnist has called on former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to enter the 2024 presidential race. Seriously.
NY Democrats claim they're working 'behind the scenes' on migrant crisis -- fat chance
Is Mayor Adams, sorely burdened by inconvenient truths, telling a fib?
Gov. Hochul finally calls out the Biden administration over handling of migrants as crisis continues to spike
That was one small step for Kathy Hochul — one big mistake for New York.Â
Governor and mayor must unite on migrants to say: Enough!
The relationship between Gov Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams seems close to collapsing — overwhelmed by the issues, the continuing migrant crisis being just the most pressing.
Gov. Hochul publicly humiliated by Biden administration over migrants
Gov. Kathy Hochul eyed Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett airfield as a possible migrant relocation site until the White House rebuffed her.
Safe drug sites say they're saving lives — but they're encouraging slow deaths
Damian Williams, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said two "supervised injection sites" in New York City are illegal — and hints that he might just...
Kids are handing out hookers' business cards in Queens: Bring back the vice squad
So hookers have little kids handing out business cards on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, even as Albany considers legalizing prostitution. Could 2023 be the year New York finally goes nuts?
'Oppenheimer' reignites the bomb debate — but there's no question Truman was right
It is one of history’s ironies that Hirohito, honored by his people, died peacefully in 1989 while a moral taint still attaches to Harry Truman, the hero who ended the...
Hochul’s hilarious Council on Community Justice shows she’s nothing but Gov. Gaslight
Just about the same time a random maniac was beating people with a board at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul declared it to be Pretrial...
It's Adams who's been too quiet on migrants — not the 'daily tabloids'
Adams keeps building — at least 186 shelters at last count. There is no end in sight. The cost? Don’t ask. (OK, approaching $4 billion, with no end in sight to...
Heart-attack pushers Ben & Jerry's hippie 'Indian land' hypocrisy
Ice cream brand Ben & Jerry's called the United States "stolen land" on Twitter and urged people to commit to returning it to indigenous people.
The crime victim numbers are soaring and Alvin Bragg is to blame
Maybe the thief didn’t deserve to die over a couple of bottles of energy drink — but neither he nor his alleged killer deserved to be placed in fatal proximity...
Thousands of migrants keep coming into NYC every month — will Adams finally say stop
Last week Mayor Eric Adams offered up Gracie Mansion as a hostel for border-hoppers.