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Meet Vanessa Emme's 'zero filter' cop on 'The Chelsea Detective'
"She speaks her mind with practically zero filter and lacks patience for nonsense; she tends to roll her eyes at all the excess she witnesses," Vanessa Emme said.
FDNY commish facing mutiny over 'breach of trust'
Embattled FDNY Chief Laura Kavanagh is facing a mutiny by her top chiefs, with five already demanding demotions and others threatening to follow suit in solidarity.
De Blasio 'ally' blasts city's 'incompetence' toward minority hiring
A longtime ally of Mayor de Blasio Monday blasted his administration as “incompetent and immoral” for not giving minority- and women-owned firms more city contracts. Black Institute CEO Bertha Lewis...
Hakeem Jeffries has Mayor de Blasio in full panic mode
Bill de Blasio, who has always preferred politics to policy, is back in his element — and the 2017 mayoral campaign is under way. How else to interpret his otherwise...
Former ACORN chief backs Hillary Clinton
Mayor de Blasio may be starting to feel “left’’ out. While he’s playing hard to get by holding off on endorsing Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, lefty pal Bertha Lewis...
Zombie pork
The Legislature may have eliminated member items back in 2009 after an avalanche of corruption scandals, but that hardly leaves Albany pork-free today. In fact, the latest state budget is...
Election results in criminal charges for Working Families Party
The Working Families Party is about to feel the explosive fallout of a five-year-old election on Staten Island. The Post has learned that a lengthy investigation into a 2009 City...
Rebranded 'ACORN' trying to help Dems win state Senate
A campaign arm of the rebranded, left-wing group ACORN is spending hundreds of thousands to help Democrats win control of the state Senate and protect traditional, union-controlled public schools. The...
Former ACORN honcho rakes in the green at new group
Former ACORN head Bertha Lewis, a friend of Mayor de Blasio, is raking in benefits at her new nonprofit — even as she recruits board members with checkered pasts. Lewis,...
De Blasio headlines fund-raiser for ACORN honcho
It’s payback time for Mayor de Blasio. The mayor is rewarding former ACORN honcho and longtime pal Bertha Lewis by headlining a fund-raiser for her new group, The Black Institute....
Former ACORN group quits lawsuit against charter schools
Forced to choose between politics and its purported principles, the rebranded organization formerly known as ACORN has come down on the side of politics, critics charged Sunday. The group, which...
Crony socialism
We’ve all heard of crony capitalism. Turns out, the left has its own version. And Bertha Lewis is proving herself a master. The one-time head of the radical group ACORN,...
De Blasio starts his war on charter schools
Mayor de Blasio brought down the hammer Thursday on three charter schools operated by his nemesis Eva Moskowitz, leaving hundreds of kids without classrooms this fall. “This has to be...
The mayoral race's not-so-obvious winners and losers
The Winners Bill Hyers and Emma Woods: Things were looking grim for Bill de Blasio as late as June 26, when a Q poll gave him a dreary 10 percent in...
Make way for ObamaCare’s army of seedy aides
Welcome to ObamaWreck! Americans nationwide spent Tuesday struggling with the much-hyped “Affordable Care Act” health-insurance exchanges. Server meltdowns, error messages and security glitches plagued the federal and state government Web...
ACORN sowed seeds for de Blasio
The leftist group ACORN has been plotting for more than a decade to install Bill de Blasio at City Hall, a Democratic Party source has told The Post. “Without exaggeration,...
ACORN chief gets back in the game
ACORN’s former leader is back on top. Bertha Lewis played critical behind-the-scenes roles in the victorious Democratic primary campaigns of both Bill de Blasio for mayor and Kenneth Thompson for...