It’s going to be an eventful weekend for Al Sharpton.
First, he’ll be urging black leaders to coalesce in support of a single black candidate in the Congressional 11th, where Rock Hackshaw says Charles Barron is taking an interest as well.
And on Sunday, I’m told, Sharpton will be speaking at the church Read More
It’s a New York political blog, but it’s worth diverting your attention for a moment to the sweet-smelling state across the river to ponder what Cory Booker managed to do yesterday.
He carried carried six of six council candidates to victory yesterday in Newark’s runoff elections, ensuring that his allies will be sitting in each Read More
After a weeklong stint on this blog last summer, I’m back again.
“Who cares?” I can hear many of you asking, not unreasonably.
After all, it was Ben Smith who built The Politicker into a local phenomenon. It was Tom McGeveran and company who nurtured it over the last few weeks.
My only job, Read More
Are you still looking for the mystical sixth borough—that El Dorado of cheap rents, decent bagels and authentic street life? Well, you can officially forget Philadelphia, recently designated as a possible contender for borough No. 6. How about Newark? It’s closer to Manhattan than parts of Queens, and it costs only $1.50 on the PATH Read More
Are you still looking for the mystical sixth borough—that El Dorado of cheap rents, decent bagels and authentic street life? Well, you can officially forget Philadelphia, recently designated as a possible contender for borough No. 6. How about Newark? It’s closer to Manhattan than parts of Queens, and it costs only $1.50 on the PATH Read More
The Times reports on a a feud between Jon Corzine and Sharpe James; and the legislature overrides most of George Pataki’s vetos, but the governor says he will block the property tax rebate.
Newsday reports on the Yanks and Mets stadium deals.
The Sun reports that Department of Education Deputy Chancellor Carmen Read More
There is an elephant in the room of New York politics. It is the issue of social class.
The centrality of class in many electoral races should be obvious, yet much of the media avoids candor on the topic. Perhaps they see it as too touchy and troublesome.
Class is both those things, but underplaying Read More
There is an elephant in the room of New York politics. It is the issue of social class.
The centrality of class in many electoral races should be obvious, yet much of the media avoids candor on the topic. Perhaps they see it as too touchy and troublesome.
Class is both those things, Read More
Up for an Oscar this year is Marshall Curry’s documentary about the Newark Mayor’s race, Street Fight, featuring a memorable line from former Ferrer spokeswoman Jen Bluestein.
“As formidable an opponent Sharpe James is, the penguins are just as tough,” says Jen.
By the time Cory Booker lost his 2002 run for mayor of Newark, the young African-American lawyer, former City Councilman and rising star of the national Democratic Party had walked through the fire of racial politics. He had been tarred as a carpetbagger, a pawn of the Republican right, a tool of moneyed Manhattan interests, Read More
