WestView Editor Caucuses For Bernie in Nevada
By Christy Ross In a cheery kindergarten classroom at Mountain View Elementary School, I joined 20 of my Elko neighbors to caucus in the Nevada […]
Thoughts About Justice Scalia and the Supreme Court
By Judge Frederic Block I am writing this article the day after Justice Antonin Scalia died. I am under no illusion that the vast majority […]
Youth Does Not Follow the Banner of Compromise
By George Capsis Times veteran op-ed columnist, Nicholas Kristof, tells a good story of how in 1981, he, as a young Washington Post intern, called […]
Letters: Job Loss and Stock Market Key Reasons to Keep ACA
To the Editor: In reference to your advocacy of a federal Single Payer healthcare plan in place of the ACA, let it be conceded that […]
Letters: Graffiti Hero
In the February issue of WestView News you have a blurb about the US Postal Service selling ad space on its green relay boxes in […]
Letters: MTA Seeks Ad Millions – Post Office Prefers Graffiti
In June, WestView suggested that the Post Office sell advertising on its graffiti tattooed collection boxes. We offered an illustration of how the Post Office […]
Briefly Noted: VID Meeting
On Thursday, February 11th, the Village Independent Democrats held their monthly meeting in St. John’s Church on Christopher Street. Democratic party district leader Keen Berger […]
Briefly Noted: Correction
An observant reader wrote to let us know that the picture of Arthur Schwartz that ran correctly with his “Inside Bernie Sanders” piece in the […]
Briefly Noted: Call Central Casting
In the golden era of Hollywood, MGM had “Central Casting” – an office that could, on very short notice, produce any type of actor or even […]
Corruption—A (Not So) Radical Plan to Clean Up Albany
By Arthur Z. Schwartz It’s not news: Our New York State government is the most corrupt government anywhere in the United States. You know that […]
Times Slams Clinton
By George Capsis Oh, wow—the New York Times, despite their endorsement of Hillary Clinton, slammed her in an editorial on February 26 entitled “Mrs. Clinton, […]
April 19 – A Primary Vote With Lots of Meaning
By Arthur Z. Schwartz New Yorkers will have a stark choice in April. We will have a presidential primary after Super Tuesday and primaries in […]
West Village Original: Dina Paisner
By Michael D. Minichiello This month’s West Village Original is Dina Paisner, a resident of Bank Street since the 1940s. Working for decades as a […]
Ashes to Ashes, Stardust to Stardust
By Reverend Donna Schaper I’ve been saying “Ashes to Ashes, Stardust to Stardust” at funerals I officiate for the last year or so. I have […]
The “Immaculate Corruption” on Hudson Street
By Catherine Revland A few years ago, having heard the phrase “too big to jail” one too many times, I closed my account at the […]
Bill on the Phone
By George Capsis I get almost as many robo calls as I get real calls, so when a voice came on to say that I […]
It’s a Spring Thing
By Keith Michael So far this winter we’ve had a record-breaking heat wave, a record-breaking one-day blizzard, and a record-breaking deep freeze outside our front […]
Remembering Myra Carter — October 27, 1929-January 9, 2016
By Robert Heide “I like Albee when he gets into death,” she said. “Death is big enough to get into, or out of, a few […]