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A Tale of Two Bloombergvilles

John Tarleton Mar 2, 2020

Bloomberg: Mayor of Luxury City

Tom Angotti Feb 29, 2020

New Yorkers speak out about their former mayor turned presidential candidate. Have a story to tell? Write to us at contact@Indypendent.org or call (212) 904-1282.

Keeping the People In Line: Michael Bloomberg and the 2004 RNC Crackdown

Eric Laursen Mar 2, 2020

Michael Bloomberg's Disastrous Public Education Legacy

Leonie Haimson Feb 25, 2020

Bloomberg Was Wall St.'s 'Foremost Defender,' Pushing for Deregulation Even After the Crash

Rico Cleffi Feb 19, 2020

Elsewhere

Tuesday Night’s Debate Audience Sure Did Seem to Like Bloomberg for Some Reason Slate

Bloomberg Forced Me From My Teaching Job After He Learned I'd Been a Sex Worker The Nation

The complicated history of Obama and Bloomberg CNN

Mike Bloomberg Can't Shake The Legacy Of Stop-And-Frisk NPR

Bloomberg creates a parallel presidential race. Can he win? Associated Press

Neoliberalism

During his 12 years as mayor, Michael Bloomberg catered to the super wealthy, cut and privatized government services and attacked unions. It was peak neoliberalism.

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Will NYC Still Be Real Estate Capital of the World After Covid?

Tom Angotti Sep 26, 2020

Michael Bloomberg: How to Break a Union

Steven Wishnia Mar 2, 2020

Bloombergisms: He Said What?

Indypendent Staff Mar 2, 2020

A Tale of Two Bloombergvilles

John Tarleton Mar 2, 2020

Bloomberg’s Public Housing Fiascos

Maria Muentes Feb 29, 2020

Bloomberg: Mayor of Luxury City

Tom Angotti Feb 29, 2020

Education

Under Michael Bloomberg, education reform was a goldmine for private sector grifters but a disaster for public school students, parents and teachers.

Jonathan Soto Races to the Finish in Heated Bronx Assembly Race

John Tarleton Jun 14

Michael Bloomberg’s Disastrous Public Education Legacy

Leonie Haimson Feb 25, 2020

A Teacher’s Story: How Bloomberg Wreaked Havoc On My ‘A-Rated’ Public School

Julie Cavanagh Feb 25, 2020

Gentrification

How NYC became a playground for the super rich and increasingly unaffordable for the poor and the working class.

Jonathan Soto Races to the Finish in Heated Bronx Assembly Race

John Tarleton Jun 14

Bloomberg’s Public Housing Fiascos

Maria Muentes Feb 29, 2020

Bloomberg: Mayor of Luxury City

Tom Angotti Feb 29, 2020

Civil Liberties

Respect for the rights of dissidents and unpopular minorities were under constant attack during the Bloomberg years.

Julien Assange Free at Last

Renée Feltz Jul 1

Keeping the People In Line: Michael Bloomberg and the 2004 RNC Crackdown

Eric Laursen Mar 2, 2020

Linda Sarsour on Life Under Bloomberg and Fighting for Bernie

Ariel Boone Feb 29, 2020

When Bloomberg’s NYPD Took My Dad From Me

Moumita Ahmed Feb 24, 2020