Tag: politics
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District 33 and 34 Candidates’ Forum
The North Brooklyn Open Space Coalition* held as excellent forum with the candidates for the District 33 and 34 City Council seats on Thursday. Some very good questions on parks, open space, development and the waterfront. Diana Reyna and Ron Shiffman did a great job moderating too. Watch the forum via video link here (via…
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Article 78
Like a lot of people in Greenpoint and Williamsburg, Stephen Pierson wants to turn back time and undo the waterfront rezoning for Greenpoint (and presumably Williamsburg). Unlike a lot of people, Pierson is running for City Council, so his ideas are getting a lot of attention. As someone who has spent a lot of time…
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Catsimatidis To Bring Beloved World’s Fair Back to the Big Apple
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/catsimatidis-mayor-bringing-back-world-fair-article-1.1254600
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Olechowski on Top?
After all the votes were counted last Friday, it appeared that Lincoln Restler had eked out a narrow victory (53 votes out 11,000 or so cast). But nothing is simple in the 50th AD’s District Leader race – there are now reports of an 80-vote discrepancy at one polling place on Kent Avenue. Depending on…
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Restler On Top
I have not seen any official results1, but incumbent Lincoln Restler says that the final tally in the 50th AD District Leader2 has him up by 53 votes over challenger Chris Olechowski. Lincoln had been down by 51 votes (out of about 13,000 cast) in the machine tally, so the absentee ballots apparently put him…
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Daily News Endorses Otaño
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/daily-news-endorsements-state-senate-assembly-article-1.1157098?localLinksEnabled=false
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Vote for Lincoln
Even though I write about local politics fairly often, I don’t do endorsements very often. But Lincoln Restler is someone who I think you should vote for – he has taken a do-nothing political party position and used it as a platform for doing a lot of good things for Fort Greene, Williamsburg and Greenpoint.…
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Joe Lentol Endorses Lincoln Restler
http://www.cityandstateny.com/joe-lentol-endorses-anti-vito-candidate-lincoln-restler/
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Congresswoman Time-Travels, and Eyebrows Are Raised
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/a-congresswomans-call-for-freedom-from-the-dutch/?ref=nyregion
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Speaker Says He Asked Assemblyman to Resign
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/nyregion/assemblyman-vito-lopez-refused-request-to-step-down-speaker-says.html?smid=pl-share