In the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans flipped several congressional seats held by Democrats. There has been a lot of debate about how the New York State Democratic party lost these seats, even accounting for the usual loss of districts in a mid-term election. I would like to add another reason why we lost and the reason is in Washington.
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Democrats, liberals, progressives, or whatever term you want to use, began to pay more attention to persecuted or politically under-represented groups such as racial minorities, women, gays, immigrants, and others. This attention, called identity politics, became more prominent over the decades and seemed to entirely take over the priorities of the Democratic party.
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Defying the Holocaust didn’t just mean uprising and revolt. In a place meant to destroy all Jewish life, the smallest acts of support and comfort were resistance.
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The Canadian Prime Minister and Joe Biden have agreed to limit the ability of immigrants to gain asylum. Roxham Road, on the Canadian border, used to be a place where migrants could enter Canada from the United States and apply for asylum.
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Opinion Albany Has the Money to Provide Families with Quality Legal Representation The question...
Read MoreNew York City is littered with the deteriorating detritus of the pandemic emergency outdoor dining program. Once beautiful and distinctive neighborhoods like Williamsburg, Jackson Heights, Astoria, Chelsea, Chinatown, Flushing and Greenwich Village are now a tangle of makeshift and decaying sheds festooned with fake flowers and sad, limp strings of cheap lights—an embarrassment to their residents and a repellent eyesore to visitors.
Read MoreAn Ask for Dog Walkers of the Village By Shannon McNamara It’s not lost on me that the topic of owners and their dogs (especially here in New York City) is an incredibly personal one. As my brother-in-law once told me, “Shannon,...
Read MoreOPINION By MARCY PRIKTUR “Don’t tell me about no separation of Church and State. State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies.” If you’re like me, when you read this quote, you were...
Read MoreI am a White woman who never had to consider issues of whether the police were present to protect me; I took it for granted. It appears to me that growing up Black, whether male or female, you do not have that privilege.
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On West 45th Street metal bins for household waste and recyclables have been placed in the street, along the curbs, with the goal of clearing the sidewalks and detering rats.
Read MoreDefund, But Do It Right OPINION By Alec Pruchnicki, MD Recently, the Progressive Caucus of the New York City Council was ripped apart because of a demand that all members sign a pledge to decrease funding for the police and...
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With virtually no input from the skilled and learned stakeholders with years of dedicated affiliation to the Infirmary, they began a process of gutting the Institution
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As part of his ongoing efforts to get a handle on the city’s sprawling mental health crisis, Mayor Eric Adams has issued a directive clarifying that the city’s Health Department and first responders have legal standing to involuntarily commit individuals with mental health issues to a hospital if they appear to be a danger to themselves “due to an inability to meet their basic needs.”
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