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A Caring Politician Who Doesn't Seek the Limelight

Tom Allon | Posted 11.25.2012 | New York
Read More: Karim Camera, Sheldon Silver, Governor Cuomo, Same-Sex Marriage, Daniel O'Donnell, New York Assembly Speaker, NYS Assembly, Danny O'donnell Assembly Speaker, New York News
Tom Allon

I can count on one hand the number of people I have met in New York's political world who are both honest and who view politics as more public service than personal aggrandizement. One of these few is Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell.

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When Will We Have Three Women in a Room?

Tom Allon | Posted 09.13.2012 | New York
Read More: Christine Quinn, Government, Andrew Cuomo, Nys-Assembly, Vito Lopez Sexual Harassment, Sexual Harassment, Shelly Silver, Carolyn Maloney, New York News
Tom Allon

Politics, like many professions, has for too long been an old boys club, with bad behavior tolerated and misdeeds covered up. Nowhere has this been more evident than in Albany, New York.

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Stewardship Report Endorses and Fetes First Two Candidates for N.Y.S. Assembly

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Astoria, Brooklyn, Jim Luce Stewardship Report, Attorney, Jeremiah Frei-Pearson, Harry Luce, Jessica Lappin, Carolyn B. Maloney, Albany, Manhattan, Damon Dash Gallery, Stewardship Report, Jim Luce, Tribeca, Micah Kellner, Woodside, John Lee, Sunnyside, Politicians, Western Queens, Jeremiah, Rockefeller Republican, Kareem ?€œBiggs? Burke, Morgan Freeman, Def Jam Records, Henry Luce Jr., Bob Zuckerman, Jackson Heights, Queens, Mark Green, New York City, Bryan Pu-Folkes, Barack Obama, Harvey Milk, Time-Life, N.Y.S. Assembly, Civil Rights Lawyer, Luce Family, Harlem, Karla Mosley, Progressive Democrat, Elmhurst, Corona, Dash Entertainment, Roc-a-Fella Records, Jay-Z, Politics News
Jim Luce

The just-launched Jim Luce Stewardship Report has just endorsed its first two candidates for the New York State Assembly -- and is throwing a party to...

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Albany Takes NYS Public School Education With a Grain of Salt

David A. Singer | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Arne Duncan, Governor Paterson, Diane Ravitch, Mandates, Amy Paulin, President Obama, Teachers Union, Bill Gates, Teacher Quality, Newsweek, Albany, NYS Senate, New York Post, Richard Ravitch, Teachers, Felix-Ortiz-Salt, Suzi Oppenheimer, NYS Assembly, New York News
David A. Singer

The cacophony over what to do about public school education and when to do it and how to do it... is deafening. The disconnects have run absolutely wild.

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