Hillary’s New York Delegates, Part One

The jostling for New York’s official Democratic convention delegate spots has been quietly playing out in political circles here for some time. And since a Hillary Clinton win in New York is kind of a foregone conclusion, it’s really a contest to be named by her campaign.

Officially, delegates have to run and Read More

Scenes from a Bronx Dinner

Bill Thomson and Adolfo Carrion had a friendly chat during last night’s dinner for the Bronx Democratic County Organization at the Marina Del Rey.

At one point, I and two other reporters ran into Denny Farrell, who was hanging out with his daughter. He cheerily noted that earlier in the day he’d gotten Read More

Events for April 10, 2007

9:30 a.m. The U.S. Department of Labor will hold an Equal Employment Opportunity Awards program at the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, at 1 Bowling Green.

10 a.m. The Food Bank for New York will launch a backpack program to address childhood hunger at home at the Citizens Advice Bureau, Read More

Goo-Goos Pin Hopes on Spitzer

New York State politics is cankered and corrupt. Anyone who requires proof need only ponder the cases of Hakeem Jeffries and Lorraine Coyle Koppell, two notable victims of our farcical redistricting process.

In 2000, Mr. Jeffries challenged a long-time member of the State Assembly, Roger Green, for the Democratic nomination in the 57th District. He Read More

Events for April 28, 2006

The weekend-long 30th annual delegate assembly of The National Education Association/New York kicks off tomorrow in Rochester with Eliot Spitzer and author Jonathan Kozol expected to address the delegates.

Tom Suozzi and Assemblyman Michael Gianaris will speak on separate panels at a symposium on reapportionment hosted by Citizens Union at The Newman Center Read More

A Greek Is Hoping He’ll Play in Rome, N.Y.

In 1988, a precocious Queens student named Michael Gianaris, a son of Greek immigrants, registered 10,000 Greek-American New Yorkers to vote for the Democratic Presidential campaign of then–Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Last month, Mr. Dukakis—now a professor at Northeastern University—hosted a fund-raiser in Boston for that same precocious student, who is now a State Assemblyman Read More

A Greek Is Hoping He’ll Play in Rome, N.Y.

In 1988, a precocious Queens student named Michael Gianaris, a son of Greek immigrants, registered 10,000 Greek-American New Yorkers to vote for the Democratic Presidential campaign of then–Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis.

Last month, Mr. Dukakis—now a professor at Northeastern University—hosted a fund-raiser in Boston for that same precocious student, who is now a State Assemblyman Read More