BROOKLYN — Last week, I announced that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will begin an investigation into the role of mortgage lenders in the financial crisis and the economic recession. The actions mortgage lenders took {read more...}

BROOKLYN — An accomplished economic group declared this past Thursday morning that the Great Recession was over. As with other similar reports, a set of numbers dictate that kind of conclusion.

As we all know, however, a set of encouraging numbers does not put money into the pockets of those out of {read more...}

BROOKLYN — It’s almost over, the election, that is. I’m a political junkie and usually wallow in the politicking business, but I’m a bit bored.

I’m more bored, more because of the long stream of negative campaign commercials and incessant “robocalls� than anything else. The New Jersey race has {read more...}

It would have been tempting to stand there last week and imagine Julie Andrews singing something like “The hills of Brooklyn are alive with music...,� but it was only later that I thought of that inanity.

But there is nothing inane about the hill I was on. It might turn out to be {read more...}

BROOKLYN — Can the name “Gowanus Canal� become a household word in Peoria?

Well, after last Sunday’s New York Times magazine, there is a chance that at least one or two people in that Illinois city now know something about it.

The magazine editors asked Andrew Rice to sum up in a four-page {read more...}

Inside the plastic bag was a hefty 144-page full-color bro-chure by Halstead Property promoting residential opportunities. Back when there was a crazy housing boom, these sales products were quite common, and everybody tried to outdo {read more...}

Every time I read an article about Michael I {read more...}

I am a resident of Dean Street in Prospect Heights, less than a block from the border of the proposed Atlantic Yards site. I have a couple of comments/corrections to your editorial “Review and Comment — Us Against {read more...}

What a giant surprise to receive the Press and find it back to “normal.�

Thank you for returning it to an appealing size and readability to manage. Bravo.

All the best to each and all responsible for the welcome {read more...}

During the weekend, I happened to see Suze Orman’s well-known financial advice program. The the guest was Ann Minch, who has gotten more than 100,000 hits on her YouTube post describing her one-woman “credit card {read more...}

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — A group with a new name relating to Brooklyn Bridge Park has announced its presence, but it is run by the same people who have resisted or opposed the park all this decade. The name is Campaign for Brooklyn Bridge Park.

And I agree with a sentence on its {read more...}

BROOKLYN — Wow! What a smashing week for the people who almost financially destroyed this nation in the last few years. Big Mo has returned to them.

The Dow Jones is back over $10,000 a share, and a report from the Wall Street Journal, no screaming liberal periodical, reports that Wall Streeters are going {read more...}

By Samuel Newhouse
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

ALBANY — Sitting in the New York Court of Appeals on Wednesday, I couldn’t help but reflect on the strange journey that had brought me to the state’s highest court to see the law come to life.

I hitched a ride on a bus chartered by community group Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, which was bringing a petitioner and various supporters to Albany to hear arguments {read more...}