By Staff 12/14/05 3:21pm

Son of Ted

Among the contenders for the West Side assembly seat vacated by Scott Stringer is Tom Weiss, the son of legendary, liberal Congressman Ted Weiss, who sought to impeach Ronald Reagan over the Grenada invasion. (Those were the days!)

The younger Weiss is not a West Side political insider. His connection to politics has been via Read More

By Staff, Staff 1/19/05 3:55pm

Politics

Mike in the Lion’s Den

To close watchers of the Upper West Side’s intricate politics, the fact that Mike Bloomberg got an election-year invitation to speak to the deeply, traditionally liberal Park River Democratic Club – Rep. Ted Weiss’s old club — says at least as much about the mayor’s strength among white Manhattan Democrats as do Read More