Sheepshead Bay native and presently resident of Williamsburg, former assistant district attorney in Manhattan Abe George has decided to challenge incumbent Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes for his job. “We’ve lost trust in DA Hynes and that’s a huge problem for the community. My election will be about...
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Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Assemblyman from Brooklyn’s 8th District solidly squashed Councilman Charles Barron on Tuesday winning 72 percent of the vote to Barron’s 28 percent. Come November Jeffries will run for Congress against Green Party candidate Colin Beavan and the Republican opponent Alan Bellone, but...
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Perfectly timed for Mother’s Day, our own U.S. Representative and Democrat Jerrold Nadler has recently introduced new legislation to protect pregnant women. In collaboration with Carolyn Maloney from Queens, Jackie Speier from California and Susan Davis from California, the legislation is also joined by women’s advocacy...
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As of 7:30pm on Wednesday Republican David Storobin has a slight lead of 143 votes over his Democratic opponent Lew Fidler. The special election to decide who will fill the State Senate seat of the 27th District was held three months after former State Senator Carl Kruger was forced to resign after pleading guilty to charges of...
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Although he’s not from New York, Abraham Lincoln is a figure worth admiring. And this is particularly true on the anniversary of his birthday. Abraham Lincoln never saw himself as anything extraordinary – in fact, he had quite the opposite view. Archived in the Shapell Manuscript Foundation’s Between the Lines Project, is a...
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Former Mayor of New York City Rudolph Giuliani spoke in Ciudad Juarez in order to help reduce crime in the city. Many were in attendance, including Pedro Zaragoza Fuentes. He offered several helpful tips that the region will need in order to dramatically reduce crime levels. One, he said, is to look to the most reliable...
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