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Another Tiger Mistress Speaks
Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by Hannah Rappleye.
The Tiger Woods fiasco drags on. They keep getting crummier. by THE AMIGO UNIT
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A Day at the Races
Posted on 06. Dec, 2009 by Hannah Rappleye.
Recently I spent a day at the Aqueduct Racetrack in South Ozone Park. It’s like the blue-collar version of the Belmont track; a throwback to a bygone era when down and out New Yorkers from across the boroughs used to flock to the track to try their luck. The track, where Cigar kicked off his [...]
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A Day at the Aqueduct
Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by Hannah Rappleye.
Photographed and Produced by Hannah Rappleye Audio by Hannah Rappleye and Joe Walker
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The Undocumented and Health Care
Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Hannah Rappleye.
There was an article in the Times recently about Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, which just closed its outpatient dialysis clinic. According to the article, the public hospital decided to close its dialysis clinic as a cost-cutting measure – because it has too many undocumented patients. “For Grady, which has served Atlanta’s poor for [...]
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A Day at the Aqueduct
Posted on 15. Nov, 2009 by Hannah Rappleye.
Last weekend I went to the Aqueduct to take photos. I used to spend a little time at Great Lakes Downs, the racetrack outside of Muskegon, Michigan. I didn’t bet much but I liked to watch the horses. Hanging out at the Aqueduct from 11 a.m. until the last race at 4:30 made me remember [...]
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All the News that's Fit to Print….Unless the Mayor Says Not To
Posted on 08. Nov, 2009 by Hannah Rappleye.
After weeks of listening to all the major news networks and papers harp on how mayoral candidate Bill “Seabiscuit” Thompson didn’t stand a chance in the face of Bloomberg’s money and power, election night was especially bittersweet. Or depressing, depending on how you look at things. Bloomberg did, in fact, prevail, just like the papers [...]
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Out of the Ashes, a Home
Posted on 01. Nov, 2009 by Hannah Rappleye.
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Last Sunday I was walking through Jamaica taking photos. As I rounded the corner of 171st Street and 90th Avenue, I noticed a black cat cross the street. Seconds later another cat followed, and then another, and another, until the handful of cats turned into a streaming deluge of cats, all [...]
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Song of the Week
Posted on 23. Oct, 2009 by Hannah Rappleye.
I’m going to bring it down a notch; partly because I’m too wrapped up in reporting on other things but not far along enough to expand upon them here, and partly because this week, there’s something else that’s been weighing on my mind. That something is one Freddie King, the “Texas Cannonball,” the spitfire make-you-want-to-get-toe-up-drunk-and-dance [...]
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One last look at Mary Immaculate
Posted on 09. Oct, 2009 by Hannah Rappleye.
It’s been months since Jamaica’s Mary Immaculate Hospital closed. But for the past few weeks, former hospital and contract workers have spent their afternoons packing up the hospital’s innards to be shipped to other hospitals as far away as Tennessee. Everything in the 107 year-old hospital has been sold—from its reams of printer paper to [...]
