Espaillat Expected to Kick-Off Senate Re-Election Race Tonight

Written by City & State on July 11, 2012. Posted in Politics

Manhattan State Sen. Adriano Espaillat is expected to announce that he will run for re-election to the state Senate this evening, at Fort Green Presbyterian Church in Manhattan at 6 p.m. Espaillat sent out an announcement to supporters last evening terming the announcement “Adriano’s next steps.” Espaillat is slated to face a primary challenge against
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State Senator to Hold Event Teaching the “Feminine Presence”

Written by City & State on July 3, 2012. Posted in Politics

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Have we stumbled into an episode of Mad Men? Later this month, Republican State Sen. Marty Golden’s office is holding a career-development event for women in his southern Brooklyn district teaching them “Posture, Deportment and the Feminine Presence.” That’s according to a taxpayer-funded mailing being sent out in Golden’s district, which an offended reader passed
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Could Prisons Factor Into Redistricting?

Written by admin on March 13, 2012. Posted in Breaking News, News & Features West Side Spirit, News OTDT, News Our Town, Politics

By Chris Bragg A memo being circulated by Todd Breitbart, a Democratic redistricting attorney expert who has worked closely with the Senate Democrats, states that the proposed redistricting constitutional amendment released late last night would bring back prison-based gerrymandering. In 2010, the practice, which had counted prison inmates in the largely upstate communities where they
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SENATE CANDIDATES TO DEBATE

Written by admin on September 1, 2010. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

By Alice Robb The four candidates vying to succeed Eric Schneiderman in the State Senate will debate transportation issues Tuesday, Sept. 7. “With a massive fare hike looming after the worst service cuts in a generation, public transit has never been a more important election year issue,” said Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation
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New York Pols are all too human

Written by admin on August 4, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Lawmakers act as though laws don’t apply to them By Alan Chartock The more we watch these powerful folks in politics, the clearer it is that many of their actions can be explained by “rationalization,” the term we all learned back in our basic Psychology 101 course. For example, when Charlie Rangel is accused of
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Ready for a Revolution

Written by admin on June 16, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

You know it’s bad when California government starts to look good By Alan S. Chartock I have been hanging around the New York State Legislature and watching government as a professor, broadcaster and columnist since about 1965. I’ve seen a lot, but I have truly never seen anything like what I am seeing now. It’s
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