By Bob Hennelly

At a City Hall steps press conference yesterday, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin announced that the City Council's economists had calculated the city could anticipate an additional $2 billion in revenue from higher than previously expected tax revenue.

By Bob Hennelly

This past weekend, Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) was denied access to detainees at Delaney Hall, he told reporters on Saturday. Kim told reporters that this was the first time that GEO, the private company that runs the site, had obstructed his ability to provide legally-required Congressional oversight.

By Jillian Jonas

Is NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new housing plan and relevant budget allocations what we expected from a member of DSA? Why is a Democratic Socialist advocating privatization for NYCHA, especially after years of evidence it doesn't work, and the only true beneficiaries are members of the real estate class?

By Bob Hennelly

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has announced a reset for the policing around Delaney Hall, the controversial private immigration prison operated by the GEO Group, a major donor to President Trump.

By Bob Hennelly

In this special edition of Caribbean Voices and Beyond with Issac Ferguson we look at the roughly 300 detainees at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey who started a hunger strike and work stoppage last Friday night to protest inhumane conditions inside the privately-owned immigration prison operated by GEO, a major Trump donor.

By Bob Hennelly

This past week Mayor Mamdani delivered a master class in how to completely reset the annual municipal budget conversation while delivering a $124.7 billion budget that on paper zeroed out a $12 billion budget gap looming in no small part due to cynical under budgeting by the previous Adams administration.

By Bob Hennelly

Trump’s ongoing illegal war on Iran and increasing efforts at voter suppression here at home continue to spark resistance across the nation.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of Frontline Voices on WBAI, Samar Ali, a Research Professor of Political Science and Law at Vanderbilt University, talks about how last week’s landmark Supreme Court decision on Louisiana vs. Callais could reshape the political landscape in America.

By Bob Hennelly

On the latest episode of “What’s Going On” I speak with Dr. Joe Wilson and Larry Hamm, founder of the People's Organization for Progress, who recap May Day's dynamic American rebirth even as SCOTUS demolishes the 1965 Voting Rights Act and Louisiana delays a primary that was already underway.

By Bob Hennelly

President Trump's social media post of his likeness as a Christ-like figure bathed in a golden aura  attending to a sick man was strongly denounced  as idolatry by attendees at a Yale Divinity School conference this week that drew hundreds of public theologians from around the nation.

By Bob Hennelly

The US and Israeli war of choice continues to rage with devastating consequences with well over 2,500 deaths throughout the region, overwhelmingly mostly civilians including hundreds of children. Three weeks in and the UN Secretary Antonio Guterres was quoted as suggesting that both sides in the US-Israel war on Iran have likely already committed war crimes.

By Bob Hennelly

Last week, the same day the City Council started the ball rolling on giving itself a raise, workers packed the steps of City Hall demanding a $30 minimum wage. It was just last month, faced with the need to get hundreds of able bodied New Yorkers to shovel snow, Mayor Mamdani boosted per diem shoveler's from $19 to $30 an hour.

By Bob Hennelly

Over the weekend, President Trump, who ran on a platform of 'no more wars' declared one on Iran with the launch of a massive air attack on that country of over 90 million in coordination with Prime Minister Netanyhu and the Israeli military.

By Bob Hennelly

The Road to Raleigh 

Last week, Pacifica Radio went to North Carolina to cover Bishop William Barber's march from Wilson to Raleigh, North Carolina's state capital. The 50 miles trek was to draw national attention to the Republican state legislature's push to gerrymander out of existence the 1st CD, an historically Black Congressional district where just 48 percent of the residents are white and a majority are Black or something else. 

By Bob Hennelly

Massive newsroom staff cuts by oligarch Jeff Bezos to his Washington Post as he seeks favor with the Trump junta, sets off more hand wringing about who killed journalism. Meanwhile, in broad daylight, at the instruction of President Trump, the GOP is trying to steal North Carolina's CD I, an historic Black district.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of WBAI’s “What’s Going On?” we look at the aftermath of New York City’s historic deep freeze which so far has claimed the lives of at least 18 people.

By Bob Hennelly

With the battle lines being drawn between municipal governments and the federal government over immigration, we take a closer look at rural America on this episode of We Decide: America at the Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan. It's been such a key component to the success of Trump's MAGA movement and given the GOP such an edge in the U.S. Senate, where rural states get the same pair of Senators as the most populous states.

By Bob Hennelly

The murder by the US Border Patrol in Minneapolis of 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a Veterans Administration ICU nurse on Saturday continues to spark international outrage. Pretti, a member of the American Federation of Government Employees, was coming to the aid of a woman being pushed to the ground by the Border Patrol. Pretti was a licensed gun owner and had a permit to carry his gun which multiple videos show remained holstered until he was tackled and swarmed by federal agents who took his gun and shot Pretti multiple times.

By Bob Hennelly

As we broadcast the latest episode of “We Decide: America at the Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan” Aljazeera is reporting that the Gaza Health Ministry has only about half of the medicine it needs to take care of the beleaguered population still suffering from lack of the basics including shelter. The BBC also reports that United Nations-supported experts are warning that while Gaza's food supplies are improving, conditions remain "highly fragile."