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LEONARD GREENE: Caitlin Clark’s paltry $76K salary shows WNBA players deserve more money

Before we launch a GoFundMe page for Caitlin Clark, who will make a comparatively paltry $76,535 as a WNBA rookie this season, consider that the...

22.04.2024 8

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LEONARD GREENE: O.J. Simpson ex-teammate says trial showed ‘Black man can buy justice like a white man’

If there is anybody with a unique perspective on the O.J. Simpson saga, it’s Boston lawyer Eddie Jenkins. Not only is Jenkins, a former president of...

14.04.2024 10

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LEONARD GREENE: MTA’s money-grubbing plan to charge NYC Marathon group for bridge toll was off track

Last year, when runners from all over the world crowded at the foot of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge for the start of New York City’s iconic...

07.04.2024 10

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LEONARD GREENE: ‘Good Times’ animated reboot is an insult to TV — and the original sitcom

If you’ve ever looked out the window, as the old theme song goes, to watch the asphalt grow, you know all about “Good Times” and the Evans...

01.04.2024 20

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Giants running back Saquon Barkley wins with Philadelphia Eagles contract — LEONARD GREENE

Full disclosure: I root for the team whose 40-year-old fragile quarterback is a know-it-all who hates vaccines, spins conspiracy theories and may be...

17.03.2024 10

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LEONARD GREENE: Tensions rise in N.J. Jewish community over land for sale in Israel

Barricades stretched for a quarter mile along Roemer Ave. in Teaneck, N.J., on both sides of the street. A spotlight camera stood sentry at the...

11.03.2024 7

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Surge pricing for burgers leaves a bad taste in our mouths — LEONARD GREENE

After the Five Guys franchise went viral the other day over a $12 burger, the joke making its way around the internet was that customers would have to...

03.03.2024 30

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Arizona prosecutor plays politics with a New York murder — LEONARD GREENE

As murder cases go, the case against accused killer Raad Almansoori seems pretty open and shut. Cops have video of him leaving and entering his...

25.02.2024 10

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America needs Joe Biden’s best to keep Donald Trump out of the White House — LEONARD GREENE

He’s still a little goofy, and the doddering old man moments still make us all a little uncomfortable, but on the subject of Russia’s...

19.02.2024 30

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Guardian Angels prove New York dodged bullet by keeping Curtis Sliwa out of City Hall — LEONARD GREENE

If you’re a New Yorker, and you don’t like the way Mayor Adams is handling the city’s migrant crisis, consider that it could be worse. You could...

11.02.2024 20

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LEONARD GREENE: Migrant attackers hurt own cause by ganging up on NYPD cops

If you think the two NYPD cops beaten by a group of migrants were the only ones hurt when they were attacked outside a Times Square shelter, think...

05.02.2024 5

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Jury’s $83 million Trump verdict is $1 for every reason he should not be president — LEONARD GREENE

I don’t understand America anymore. Imagine if the company where you work spends months trying to fire you, and when they can’t fire you, they...

29.01.2024 7

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The jinx may have finally caught up with Sports Illustrated — LEONARD GREENE

It was my favorite magazine, and this was back when the mailman dropped off a stack of subscriptions in our mailbox every week. Growing up we had...

22.01.2024 9

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Jonathan Majors should keep Coretta Scott King’s name out of his mouth — LEONARD GREENE

As we prepare to celebrate Martin Luther King’s birthday on Monday, I am reminded of an opportunity I had years ago to meet his widow, Coretta Scott...

14.01.2024 20

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Conservatives who pushed Harvard’s Claudine Gay to quit hate anti-semitism — but not as much as diversity, equity and inclusion: LEONARD GREENE

If conservatives could mount Claudine Gay’s head like a game hunting trophy, they’d clear a place on the wall — because that is how they view...

07.01.2024 6

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Message to GOP: South lost the Civil War and the right to own slaves — get over it — LEONARD GREENE

Cross her off the list. Just when Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was beginning to look like a viable alternative to You-Know-Who, the...

31.12.2023 10

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States should follow Colorado’s lead and bar Trump from 2024 ballot: LEONARD GREENE

Merry Christmas, Colorado. Not since Barack Obama was nominated to be president of the United States at the 2008 Democratic convention in Colorado has...

25.12.2023 7

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Gov. Hochul could halt Haiti deportation of Queens U.S. citizen over 1990 tourist slaying: LEONARD GREENE

If Gov. Hochul is in the gift-giving mood this holiday season, she might consider packaging a pardon for a lifelong New Yorker who has paid for his...

18.12.2023 9

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You nauseate me, Mr. Trump. How the Grinch is trying to steal the White House — again: LEONARD GREENE

This was going to be a column that urged Democrats to finally face reality and consider a change at the top of the ticket, given President Biden’s...

11.12.2023 30

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LEONARD GREENE: Music star Al B. Sure turns a fight for his life into a battle for medical equity

After collapsing in a Houston studio during a recording session last year, R&B star Al B. Sure wound up in a coma that lasted longer than some of his...

04.12.2023 10

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LEONARD GREENE: No penalty for NFL sideline reporter Charissa Thompson fabricating reports is right out of white privilege playbook

On yet another glorious day of holiday weekend football, it’s as good a time as any to tackle an NFL controversy that disappeared quicker than the...

28.11.2023 10

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Progressives wanted Mayor Adams to defund the NYPD — but not like this: LEONARD GREENE

Happy now? It was only a couple of years ago that so-called progressives were out in the streets leading the charge to defund the police — a...

19.11.2023 30

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Trump whines about ‘unfair’ fraud trial as Exonerated 5 member wins NYC council seat: LEONARD GREENE

It was only fitting that Yusef Salaam was elected to a City Council seat from Harlem in the same week that former President Donald Trump was in a...

12.11.2023 30

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MLK rightly said Israel has a right to exist — but it’s not antisemitic to seek peace in Gaza: LEONARD GREENE

Usually, when Martin Luther King’s words are misappropriated, the culprits are misinformation mercenaries trying to advance some right-wing idea...

06.11.2023 10

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Hating on Halloween: Why a New Jersey school ban is a treat and not a trick

The power went out on my block the other day, and even though it meant being without electricity, the internet and heat on a chilly morning, it was...

29.10.2023 6

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Where are the real war protesters? The ones who want peace?

If my editors emailed a sign-up sheet soliciting volunteers to go overseas to cover the war in Israel, I wouldn’t even click the link. I have zero...

24.10.2023 20

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Trump’s callous remarks, campus protest rhetoric show cost of free speech after Israel attack — LEONARD GREENE

“Very fine people.” That’s what then-President Donald Trump in 2017 called white supremacists rallying in Charlottesville, Va., where a Nazi...

15.10.2023 3

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LEONARD GREENE: California shouldn’t have put a caretaker in Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat

There used to be a saying Black people employed to sarcastically acknowledge underwhelming acts of generosity: “That’s mighty white of you.”...

08.10.2023 10

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LEONARD GREENE: How do the Jets silence the Swifties? Bring in Colin Kaepernick

Here’s a way for Jets executives to distract fans and the media from the Taylor Swift madness descending on MetLife Stadium Sunday night. Sign Colin...

01.10.2023 5

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LEONARD GREENE: Suited got the job — if you want to be a US Senator, dress the part

In a world where war is waging, disease is ravaging, poverty is crippling and homelessness is out of control, does it really matter all that much...

23.09.2023 6

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LEONARD GREENE: Jets fans’ misery over Aaron Rodgers pales beside real-world calamities

So, now we’re in Dallas on Sunday, and by “we” I mean the snake-bitten New York Jets, who must find a way to win without their fallen franchise...

17.09.2023 6

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LEONARD GREENE: Alaska? Really? President Biden should be in NYC to commemorate 9/11

We like round numbers: 20th anniversary, 30th anniversary, the Golden Jubilee. But the 22nd anniversary of an evil terrorist attack on New York City...

11.09.2023 50

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