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The two new options on the table are Boylan, a 36-year-old Columbia Business School graduate whom Andrew Cuomo appointed Deputy Secretary for Economic Development and Special Adviser to the Governor in 2018, and Herzog, a 25-year-old who joined Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign after serving as co-president of Harvard Law School’s student government. Herzog hopes to advocate for Yang’s platform […]
New mandatory disclosure reports filed in May at the New York State Board of Elections gave local voters a glimpse into the campaigns of several candidates who hope to represent Red Hook in Albany in 2021. The documents reveal political donations and expenditures made between January 12 and May 18. Schoolteacher Jabari Brisport, who trailed former State Senate staffer Jason […]
After 36 years with Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Red Hook will have a new voice in the New York State Legislature’s upper chamber in 2021. With little doubt that the Democratic primary on June 23 will also determine the victor in November’s general election, the open seat in Senate District 25 – rarely challenged by a significant opponent under Montgomery, who […]
If you woke up on the morning of November 9, 2016 finding yourself as apprehensive about Donald Trump being elected the country’s 45th President as I did, that may not be such a bad thing. The brash and often outspoken Trump is set to be one of the most erratic and un predictable Presidents that the country has ever elected […]
Joan Millman’s decision not to seek reelection came as a shock to some. She has represented the 52nd Assembly District in Albany since 1997, and would no doubt be re-elected to as many terms as she wanted. However, at age 74, and with a promised job in the City administration, she decided that her traveling days to Albany should be […]