Max drew the short straw so we sent him down McGuinness Boulevard on a bike to find out what it's like now that the City claims its safe: hellgatenyc.com/boulevard-now-…

Best reporting from the DNC, I hope people read it vanityfair.com/news/story/dnc…

Google won. seattletimes.com/opinion/google…

This worker-owned journalism thing just might work!

The sheriff featured by Democrats last night is same sheriff we recently sued over taking cash from private equity-owned telecom companies to eliminate the ability of children to visit their parents in jail, on the theory that families would spend more money on monopoly calls.

Hate mail (and love mail) pouring in to Hell Gate *subscribe today!* HQ over this one. Nothing like lobbing a rock at a large, pendulous wasp nest on a quiet August Friday: hellgatenyc.com/theres-no-way-…

This from Brian Merchant is an excellent rundown of the malignant mutation of California’s journalism-funding legislation, and why it matters for everybody: bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-a-bill-m…

sad to see another legacy news organization disappear: WCBS 880 radio in NYC. Thanks to Tom Jones Poynter for sharing anchor Wayne Cabot's final words: "With each closing newspaper, radio newsroom, TV newsroom, magazine, now even digital news operations, the country we love is

While the NYT is navel gazing about societal norms and rallying for the full-throated return of broken windows, Hell Gate *subscribe today!* asks a very simple question: Maybe people aren't paying for the bus because it sucks and politicians don't want to make it better? hellgatenyc.com/why-dont-new-y…

Another look at the CA journalism-funding debacle, from Richard Tofel. One disturbing aspect of this whole thing is the way organizations that definitely know better but are financially bound to the tech giants have lined up to cheer the terrible bill. dicktofel.substack.com/p/lessons-from…

Everybody is entitled to make extremely weird editorial decisions in your national newspapers, but when you do, Hell Gate *subscribe today!* is entitled to blog about it. hellgatenyc.com/wsj-wtf/

Just saying: What better way to celebrate Labor Day than by supporting a worker-owned enterprise? hellgatenyc.com/membership/

Local history buffs: What is the greatest number of concurrent federal investigations a NYC mayoral administration has ever been under?

Source close to the matter tells @ny1 search warrants also executed on Edward A. Caban and Tim Pearson. NYPD says they are cooperating with the investigation. More on @ny1.

A timely reminder that the *last* time Deputy Mayor Phil Banks III was tangled up in a federal criminal investigation, the court evidence included this really spectacular photo album of his trip to Israel paid for by people later convicted of bribery. hellgatenyc.com/evidentiary-ph…

Also a good time to revisit this Nick Pinto classic on Phil Banks III's trip to Israel paid for by two businessmen who were ultimately convicted on federal bribery charges hellgatenyc.com/evidentiary-ph…