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HOW ANNA WINTOUR MADE A JOBLESS EX-CONVICT A JOURNALIST
FASHION WEEK 2006 WAS OLD NEW YORK IN FULL EFFECT

STRANGELOVE IN ALBANY: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE NY'S WILD & CRAZY PROGRESSIVE BUDGET
ANNUAL BUDGET ANARCHY IN ALBANY IS PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

INSIDE THE LONGSHOT REPUBLICAN LAWSUIT TO MAKE HECTOR LASALLE NY'S NEXT TOP JUDGE
COURT FIGHT OVER NEW YORK'S NEXT TOP JUDGE PITS DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR WITH REPUBLICAN ALLIES AGAINST FELLOW DEMOCRATS

THROWBACK THURSDAY: THE END OF THE 'LOBSTER TRICK’ AND THE SLOW DEATH OF 24/7 NYC JOURNALISM
Throwback Thursday with this banger from 2019.

NYPD TO SILENCE POLICE SCANNERS, WON’T COMMIT TO JOURNALIST ACCESS
NYPD to digitally encrypt radio transmissions journalists rely on to independently gather news as it is happening, making them and public dependent on police for information after the fact. Part 2 of 2

JOURNALISTS REVEAL DRAMATIC RACE TO BEAT POLICE TO ERIC GARNER VIDEO
How a police scanner kick-started Black Lives Matter and why it matters now. Part 1 of 2.

ANTIFA SPY OR JOURNALIST?: THE GIG ECONOMY AND THE CAUTIONARY TALE OF TALIA JANE
The independent journalist and the duty to be fair, impartial and truthful.

ODE TO RAY’S CANDY STORE, LOWER EAST SIDE, NEW YORK
“It's easy to forget after the high-living Sex-and-the-City years when champagne flowed in the gutters instead of blood, but the streets of New York can be merciless.”

WHY IS ‘GREEN’ NY GOV. HOCHUL REBUILDING A LOGGING ROAD THROUGH THE ADIRONDACK’S MOST-TREASURED WILDERNESS?
The New York Forest Preserve includes the largest wilderness east of the Mississippi and is required by the State Constitution to be kept “Forever Wild.”

NEW YORK CITY SNOW STORMS, 2004-2016
Snow is what you’re missing. Snow is what we got. The Free Lance is your snow connection. Let it snow.

HOW THE SUPREME COURT KILLED TYRE NICHOLS BEFORE HE WAS BORN
The Supreme Court and the culture of police impunity its qualified immunity doctrine created is the real reason five cops felt they could kill Nichols on a public street, in front of cameras, and get away with it.

NEW TOP NYPD SPOKESMAN CENSORS, ARRESTS, BULLIES JOURNALISTS
Police Censor-in-Chief Gets Big Promotion

LETTER TO READERS: WELCOME TO TRULY INDEPENDENT, TOTALLY UNCENSORED JOURNALISM
I’m not your average journalist. Before becoming one, I spent 13 years in prison.