Steve, yesterday, on something Mike taught him: “A good way to start a story is with action. And a good way to end a story is with action.”

Steve in the Record:
We need Mike’s kind of passionate, principled journalism in these days when so many are treating newspapers — the medium with which Mike moved and informed us — as a thing of the past.
This is why several of us who worked with Mike are hosting the first Mike Levine Journalism Workshop this [...]

Steve Israel:
Did the folks on that porch in Cochecton, on the streets of Otisville, on that hill in Hamptonburgh or in meetings in Callicoon and New Windsor turn the tide? Did these Davids really slay Goliath?
Put it this way:
Without them, NYRI might still be here. But their victory proves something even bigger than the towers [...]

Meghan Murphy, Adam Bosch and Christian Livermore are here from the Times Herald-Record here in New York’s always gorgeous mid-Hudson Valley. David Filkins, Scott Waldman and Pete Iorizzo are here from the Times Union in Albany. Tim Bontemps is here from the New York Post. Lee Hill Kavanaugh is here from the Kansas City Star. [...]