The Post adds a fresh voice today with a new regular column by Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Goodwin.
For nearly three decades, Goodwin’s pen has been a reminder to the political elite never to forget their job is to represent taxpayers.
“I believe that most people reject rank partisanship and want practical solutions to problems, not ideology and the party line,” said Goodwin, who describes himself as a centrist Democrat.
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Readers should expect Goodwin to hold officials accountable for wasteful spending, runaway taxes and national security. He also believes that, for moral and strategic reasons, Israel’s security is vital to America.
“I am delighted to welcome Michael Goodwin to the New York Post. He is a political powerhouse in the world’s greatest city, a provocative writer and champion of common sense,” Post editor-in-chief Col Allan said.
The twice-weekly columns will “continually remind our government that we still have many enemies in the world that want to do us harm,” Goodwin said.
Goodwin began his career on the metro desk of The New York Times. He later became City Hall bureau chief and covered sports.
He joined the Daily News in 1993 as editorial-page deputy editor and was promoted to editor of the page in 1995. He directed a series of editorials on the then-flailing Apollo Theater that were awarded the Pulitzer in 1999. His page also won a prestigious Polk Award.
In 2000, he was appointed executive editor of the News, and returned to regular column writing in 2004.
Goodwin, 60, has two children and is married to Jennifer Raab, president of Hunter College.