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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…
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The City’s economy gained 111,000 jobs between July and August 2020, reflecting a slow and partial recovery from the crushing COVID lockdown. This was a modest but meaningful improvement, but the City’s employment base is still way below its pre-COVID level of February 2020. The data come from a monthly seasonally adjusted calculation performed by…
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The Presidential campaign’s intensity took a dramatic turn last week when both candidates visited Kenosha,Wisconsin, following a set of tragic events in that small city. An unarmed African-American man named Jacob Blake was shot in the back by police, angry protests followed that included some destruction of property, and then a teenage white vigilante who…
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The Democratic Party surely hoped, as a result of its convention, that its presentation of an ethnically and culturally diverse America validating its ticket would have broad appeal to a national audience. It won me over, as I am sure it did for practically every Democrat in the country. Practically every Democrat, I am also…
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New York State’s pandemic-induced mass mail-in balloting for the Presidential and other primary elections this past June 23rd received national attention as the poster child for what can go wrong with mail ballots. There’s no time now to point fingers or spend time denouncing Donald Trump. The General Election is less than thirteen weeks away…
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Congress returned to Washington D.C this past week and New Yorkers have a big stake in the outcome of any new Federal package of aid for a nation devastated by the Coronavirus outbreak. No Clear Signals on New Aid to State and Local Government More than two months have elapsed since the Democrats in the…
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The Board of Elections reports that canvassing for a number of Assembly Democratic primaries begins Monday, July 20th, including several highly competitive primaries in Brooklyn and one in Queens. The 57th Assembly district Democratic primary between incumbent Walter Mosley and challenger Phara Forrest will canvass 14,000 absentee ballot returns. Mosley led on Primary Day by…
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