Dennis Duggan
Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday in 1967. In succession, he was named financial editor, New York Bureau Chief, City Hall Bureau Chief and in 1985, columnist.
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Dennis Duggan 2/27/06 Shattering a patriot's spirit
Don't try to tell retired Queens police Officer Wilton ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 2/13/06 Hayes' story is a page-turner
Eddie Hayes is at the top of the heap, just like the song ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 2/9/06 Quest to restore part of history
In 2001, Afghan sculptor Amanuiiah Haiderzad watched on ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 1/30/06 The McCourts take the lead
The Brothers McCourt aren't big on parades and especially ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 1/22/06 Fond memories mix with painful questions
More than a year later, the exact cause of death of Joan ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 1/16/06 A tragic 'king' of Queens
He was called the "King of Queens," but by the time he ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 1/9/06 Big shots betting on Harlem
Everywhere you look in Harlem these days, the signs of an ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/26/05 Some can't forget 1st World Trade Center attack
Sure, everyone remembers what happened in New York City on ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/21/05 A detour to American Dream
The Romeros of Ecuador arrived here a week ago after New ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/19/05 A special girl's love lives on after her death
Hallie Geier was walking her dog, Cherry Lulu, on May 15, ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/12/05 Fireman helps friends in need
For Bronx firefighter Jon Henderson, New Orleans is still ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/10/05 Antenna signals alarm for residents
Reacting to a surge in cellular phone use, T-Mobile USA ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/6/05 KATRINA
New York City veteran firefighter Jimmy Lanza, 60, has been ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 6/14/05 Wilpon puts his money where his mouth is
Mets owner Fred Wilpon wasn't talking yesterday. You might ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 6/13/05 Shelly, you did Mike a favor!
Back in February, Mayor Michael Bloomberg sniffed at the ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/12/05 Irish plays are written by women, too
Irish women have made great contributions to Irish-American ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/8/05 Cashing in on a culture of violence
Who could blame Jeffrey Smulyan, the 57-year-old lawyer, ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/7/05 Star quality trumps all else
It came as no surprise to me when I read yesterday's ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/1/05 Somewhere, Walter is smiling
I didn't get a chance to say this on the Imus show because ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 10/19/04 Flu shot situation deserves Bronx cheer
You would think former Deputy Mayor Fran Reiter has enough ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 10/18/04 Better mutiny than 'suicide'
'I'm proud of my son," said Renee Shealey of her ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 10/16/04 Work pays their way in private school
Brittany James is a 14- year-old student in Manhattan who ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 10/12/04 Their passion is the pits - BBQ, that is
So what is a nice Jewish boy - no, make that three nice ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 10/11/04 COMMENTARY
Kevin Boyle says you can forget those endless polls showing ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 10/9/04 COMMENTARY
She was known only as the Central Park jogger, a young ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 10/6/04 Relentless in guarding his beseiged flock
The police say crime is down - look at the numbers, they ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 10/2/04 COMMENTARY
Once again it's time to open the mailbags and let the ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/28/04 Elections can turn on a slip of the lip
Only twice in the televised presidential debates I have ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/25/04 COMMENTARY
Jennifer Daniels? She's a dreamer. ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/21/04 COMMENTARY
His voice was steady yesterday until he got to the point ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/20/04 9/11 wives take on government and win
You couldn't take your eyes off them yesterday morning. ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/18/04 COMMENTARY
Reading just how close former President William Jefferson ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/16/04 Drugs' grim impact, chapter and verse
For the police, CompStat, the computer program that keeps ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/13/04 COMMENTARY
Joyce Gorycki knew the news was going to be more than she ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/7/04 From the heart of Kansas
Half of the family of Bronx firefighter Joseph Spor Jr. ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/4/04 His Irish eyes have smiled on Queens
Tom Manton, son of an Irish farmer who came to America and ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/2/04 COMMENTARY
Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Gov. George Pataki ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 9/1/04 COMMENTARY
Up and down Elmhurst yesterday the mood was almost giddy. ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 8/31/04 COMMENTARY
Jimmy Boyle, a former firefighter and president of the ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 8/30/04 COMMENTARY
Joan Wile, actress, songwriter and activist, sits down at ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 8/29/04 REMEMBERING FALLEN
Lance Cpl. Jeffrey Lucey, a Marine reservist, began falling ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 8/28/04 COMMENTARY
For former Brooklyn City Councilman Ken Fisher, politics is ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 8/24/04 COMMENTARY
The Duncans woke up yesterday in their Flushing home to a ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 8/23/04 A wise, wry smile on face of dissent
When Andrea Buffa called her father, Michael, from a ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 8/17/04 An odd building out on this terror list
There wasn't a cop or a bomb-sniffing dog in sight ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 8/16/04 It's hard to fight Goliath
Don't tell Inder Parma the David and Goliath story. Please. ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 8/14/04 COMMENTARY
For years, a small group of us, including boss of bosses ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 8/10/04 Fueling the fire with confrontation
The first time veteran firefighter and former Guardian ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 8/9/04 Joel still believes he's above the rules
Am I surprised that Joel Steinberg, convicted of beating ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 8/7/04 COMMENTARY
"Ladies and gentlemen, families and friends, it is my ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 8/3/04 Some pay a greater price for security
Lisa Navarro, senior manager of City Sports in the ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 8/2/04 NYers accept a grim reality
When Walter V. Gerasimowicz woke up yesterday in his Upper ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 7/27/04 COMMENTARY
Frank Dowd knows just how Police Officer Eduardo Delacruz ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 7/26/04 COMMENTARY
'Don't call him a comer," says former Gov. Mario Cuomo of ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 7/24/04 COMMENTARY
You couldn't miss her - a petite, white-haired grandmother ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 7/20/04 COMMENTARY
Pat Lorimer was a familiar and beloved figure along East ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 7/19/04 There's a lot riding on just one speech
Earlier this year, Maurice Carroll, a veteran political ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 7/13/04 Parishioner's bequest trouble for priest
'When we look around," Msgr. John G. Woolsey wrote last ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 7/12/04 Bush�s election script a cheap sequel
"I've seen this movie before; in fact, I was in it," says ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 7/7/04 COMMENTARY
Right up to the last call from Walter Mondale - Fritz, as ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 6/19/04 Ralph Bunche: Resurrecting greatness
The Queens Museum of Art isn't easy to find - tucked away ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 6/15/04 A big gun backing an anti-war movie
A few days ago, big-time film producer Harvey Weinstein ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 6/14/04 Gone, all but forgotten
When she thinks of her son Warren, one of 241 soldiers - ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 6/8/04 'Communicator' silent on AIDS
Dennis deLeon says he isn't angry at former President ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 6/7/04 An old rival fondly recalls
The first time Geraldine Ferraro met the newly elected ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/30/04 Days of music and tinkling bells really are gone
Manny Caraballo showed me the scar at the back of his head ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/29/04 Distinct air of disregard
Christie Whitman wasn't at City Hall yesterday. She was out ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/27/04 Small paper's big victory brings cheer
Susan Locke, publisher of the weekly newspaper The Wave, ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/23/04 Iraqi-American Jews grow wary
Maurice Shohet got on his cell phone yesterday morning to ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/22/04 Can't rewind his jail time
Charles Cabble yesterday afternoon wore a big smile and an ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/20/04 Finance by day and football by choice
Whenever her mother sees a pileup on the football field, ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/16/04 This soldier's spirit was not a casualty
U.S. Army Sgt. Wasim Khan has had 23 surgeries since he was ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/15/04 When words won't do
Just two little words. ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/13/04 A mother's search for her birth mother
Rene� Aiken, a veteran New York City correction officer, ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/9/04 Boss Tweed's ghost cackling once again
Diana Lam should have started packing her bags at the old ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/8/04 Bravest are victims of inflated image
The city's firefighters paid a staggering price for their ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/6/04 The little St. Pat's parade with a big tent
I call it the "Little Parade That Could," meaning the ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/2/04 Intangible fruits of citizenship
I walked out of City Hall yesterday morning and thought ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 3/1/04 Time to take a stand on same-sex marriages
First there was San Francisco, then New Paltz and now, ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 2/29/04 Trying to picture mother he last saw as toddler
Brian Gerard Lockier has dreams about the Irish woman who ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 2/28/04 Not on the Dean's list this time around
Queens Democratic party leader Thomas Manton says he has no ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 2/24/04 A conversation with 'the Man'
It must be going around. ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 2/23/04 Meeks could inherit goodwill from Kerry
The sky truly is the limit for Gregory Meeks if John Kerry ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 2/21/04 Soon, Maybe, Nursing Inmates
They call them "homes," and what an irony that is. Those ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 2/17/04 Locals, Family Mourn Teen 'Angel'
They had become close friends over the years. The Indian ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 2/16/04 Boss' Win Leaves 'Em At a Loss
Okay, all you George Steinbrenner haters - give it up for ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 2/14/04 Declaring War Against the SUV
Queens Boulevard has a reputation as a graveyard for ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 2/10/04 A Tough Town's Soft Side Revealed
He died after being crushed in a city garbage truck's jaws ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 2/9/04 Ladies-First Trial Coverage
Martha Stewart is this year's Bess Myerson or Imelda Marcos ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 2/7/04 A Drink From Irish Loving Cup
They grew up in Queens, he in Flushing, she in Whitestone, ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 2/3/04 Early Birds' Last Laugh
Today a handful of prescient - and lucky - New York ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 2/2/04 Even If He Loses, He Wins
Pollster John Zogby called in yesterday to say that "The ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 1/31/04 A Challenge for 'Anthony Who'
Congressman Anthony Weiner says former Mayor Edward I. Koch ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 1/26/04 Neighbors, Worlds Apart
The two courthouses are only a few steps apart on Centre ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 1/19/04 NY Dems May Regret Early Bet
Did New York Democrats, who were among the first to get ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 1/17/04 An Iraqi Woman, Times Nine
Heather Raffo is an Iraqi-American actress and playwright ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 1/12/04 Canned Cabinet Member Won't Go Away
Hell hath no fury like a White House cabinet official ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 1/6/04 'Young' Dems Still Waiting
City Councilman Bill Perkins has dreamed of someday ... Read more »
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Dennis Duggan 1/5/04 Space Between Man, Machine
"It's the best news I've had since Sept. 10, 2001," Neil de ... Read more »
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911-anniversary 9/11/01 9/11/01: Duggan: City in shock tries to accept
The hastily assembled command centers at the city's hospitals signaled yesterday afternoon that the worst ... Read more »