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The Census Bureau released its population counts for the nation and the states on April 26, including changes for the states in the apportionment of 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives. New York State will drop one House seat, going from 27 seats to 26, even though it actually gained more than…
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As of April 21st, the three counties in New York State with the lowest rates of residents fully vaccinated are Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Orleans County (p.40,000), at 21% of their residents. This is the broadest measure of the population, everyone age 0 and up. There are 62 counties in the State. Brooklyn also has…
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The Republican Party in Georgia just lost the Presidential election and two U.S. Senate elections in that state in the past few months. Their response has been to attack the rights of the people who just voted against them. On straight party line votes, the Republican-controlled Legislature has passed, and Governor Brian Kemp has signed,…
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President Biden’s stimulus package is proceeding down the legislative path in Congress. This is great news for New York residents and for New York governments’ beleaguered budgets. The $1.9 trillion plan includes $350 billion for State and Local Governments, Tribes, and Territories, and large additional amounts for schools and transportation. The monies will likely be apportioned in…
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Daily Kos has published Presidential election results by NY Congressional district-Here they are https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XbUXnI9OyfAuhP5P3vWtMuGc5UJlrhXbzZo3AwMuHtk/edit#gid=0 Biden Trump
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Three weeks before the attack on the Capitol I wrote a column titled “A Disturbing Look at What Republicans Think About the Election.” The column analyzed 8 post-election polls about the election and concluded, “The high and severe levels of the repudiation of the results of the election by most of the members of one…
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NOTE: I have updated this article since it was originally published in the Gotham Gazette on the morning of Wednesday, Jan.6th, a few hours before the attack on the Capitol and the extraordinary events that have followed. In relation to New York’s financial picture, the Georgia Senate victories are bringing a Democratic majority to the…
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Hope that Congress can enact a post-election stimulus package to aid the economy amid another explosion of coronavirus cases has narrowed. One major institution in New York, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), is now out of time to get help. It is therefore necessary for New York State to step up and rescue the MTA before…
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Election Day 2020, Nov. 3, is approaching, but the American people will be confronting an unusual, potentially anticlimactic Election Night as the polls close across the country. The winner of the Presidential Election might not be determined that night. But will the winner be decided by one of the targeted swing states in the Rust…
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Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani launched an attack on Mayor de Blasio, blaming him for rising crime and crowing about how safe New York City had been until de Blasio took over. Giuliani reportedly said, “We went from being the most dangerous city to the safest large city in America, and we remained there until this idiot…
