Election Day
Tuesday, November 4 Election Day, and we can all feel it in the air…that familiar lack of excitement we wish wasn’t there but can’t seem to shake. While our area has historically had some of the higher turnout rates [http://project.wnyc.org/non-voters/] in the city
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Councilman Chaim Deutsch during his victory in the primary elections.This season, newly elected City Councilman Chaim Deutsch will be doing more than moving into City Hall. Redistricting left his home just outside of the district, and city law requires him to move within the boundaries of the community he
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Congressman Michael GrimmCongressman Michael Grimm became the butt of jokes in political circles after repeatedly flubbing the name of his district on official documents. According to a report [http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2013/07/grimm-lists-wrong-district-in-fec-forms] in the New York Daily News, Grimm had listed the wrong district in
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The current and proposed lines for the 48th District of the City Council. The process has sparked controversy, as Russian-Americans gain influence under the new lines, and Orthodox Jews appear to lose influence.Our open thread yesterday kicked off with a look at the redistricting process [/open-thread-this-is-how-political-districts-get-decided/], which seems to
redistricting
If you haven’t been paying attention, you may not know that, come election time, you will almost certainly be voting in a new Congressional District. Remember all those 2010 census [http://2010.census.gov/2010census/] forms that showed up in your mail (and census workers who showed up at
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Tuesday, a panel of federal judges declined to dismiss a legal challenge to New York State’s redistricting process, instead naming a federal judge to assist in drawing up new district maps, writes the New York Times. The panel mandated that lawyers for New York’s legislative leaders convene with