West Village Houses: What’s Next?
By Brian J. Pape, AIA In the April 2017 issue of WestView News, I introduced West Village Houses (WVH) as a local example of affordable […]
Trump Hair Salon Cartoon
Pardon, Mr. President, but a group of billionaires want to thank you for cancelling the inheritance tax.
CELEBRATING THE VILLAGE INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS (VID) AWARDS
WestView Publisher George Capsis (second from left) is pictured at the festivities with New York City Public Advocate Letitia James; VID President Erik Coler; and […]
Traumatized by Trump Trauma
Below, we feature an exchange between WestView reader Mark Gianfalla and Publisher George Capsis concerning the paper’s treatment of the Trump presidency. Dear Editors: I […]
Mom Knows Best
I’ve been writing about politics to my son, about this and that issue, and thought a recent letter may interest WestView News. —Marilyn Schwartz […]
Co-Dependent Nation
Dear Editors: The United States, and increasingly, the world, is being kept in thrall by the new president, Donald J. Trump. His lack of experience, […]
Hate in West Village
We received a call from Dr. Steven Schwartz, PhD who asked that we print this anti-Semitic scrawl with his name defiantly displayed. Trump hate has […]
Trump Trauma
A New Monthly Feature in WestView News Nothing in recent history has shattered the traditional acceptance that our national government, right or left, would somehow […]
Trumphobia
By Christina Raccuia After Trump was elected, and even during his campaign, teachers noticed an uptick in bullying and distress in classrooms, as their students […]
Potters’ Protest
By Miriam Patterson Since January 20th, we have all witnessed the President’s need to assert his newfound power in a rapid-fire barrage of sweeping executive […]
Scattered Rage Forms a Collective Fist
By Benjamin Yee The ascension of Donald Trump changed America in a political instant, upending everything we knew about politics and elections, and ushering in […]
Village’s Political Activism Lives on with Young Voices
By Andrew Buemi As the reality of the next four years under the most un-presidential and autocratic leader our nation has ever seen sets in, […]
You Cannot Change History Unless You Understand It
By Clive Morrick President Abraham Lincoln’s First Inauguration: March 4, 1861. Lincoln took office as the 16th U.S. President at a critical time. Following his […]
Don’t Mourn, Satirize
By Dr. Alec Pruchnicki, MD “Fred Trump was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.” My response to Trump’s recent election […]
Trump and the West Village
Dear Editors: I have a question for you: Will Trump’s Presidency make a difference in the West Village? That’s the question that has been on […]
Response to “The Trump Win and Our Lives”
Dear Editors: I absolutely agree with Arthur Schwartz in his article headlined “The Trump Win and Our Lives” that New York’s Democratic Party needs reform. […]
Trump, Democrats, and the White Working Class
I am very disturbed by Arthur Schwartz’s demonization of Hillary Clinton because we “lost” the election for the alleged sin of failing to reach out […]
Trump: A Survival Guide
I am sending this to as many friends, family, etc. that I can think of and ask that you pass it along to as many […]