from Wikimedia Commons State Senate District 31: Linares vs. Espaillat In an election that turned out to be one of the ugliest in the state, State Senator Adriano Espaillat defeated Assemblyman Guillermo Linares in his bid for reelection 62 percent to 38 percent. Both candidates are trailblazers in Dominican-American politics: Linares was the first Dominican-American elected to the New York City Council; Espaillat was the first Dominican-Americ...
...tten a $414 billion bailout might have yielded a different, and better, outcome. Some American cities are actually starting to experiment with participatory budgeting. In a trail that began in October 2011, four New York city council districts, including parts of Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens, completed their first attempts at using PB to allocate municipal funding for capital expenditures, with votes ending April 1 of this year. The...
energetic paralegal and college student who has lived in the Riverside Park Community for more than three decades and faithfully represents the interests of her constituents. She is also a community liaison for New York City Councilman Robert Jackson, who represents the area. “It’s obvious that the landlord wants Section 8 tenants out, so that they can do what they want with the building; they do more for market-rate tenants than for people who...
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