The presidential contest isn’t the only story this campaign season: Concern about voter disenfranchisement is another. One group will be employing a specially designed app to prevent any miscarriage in…
With voter registration drives, phone banks and an election-night party, the Bronx Young Democrats are trying not just to win votes for President Obama, but to get young citizens engaged…
Their immigrant enclave in the Parkchester section is heavily Democratic, but a few voters are wondering if the slow economy is reason to consider a vote for Mitt Romney.
At Bronx Community College, some students took on candidates’ roles for a debate, and teachers are seeing a mixture of apathy and interest among other voters on campus.
A report on civic engagement found that Borough Park’s residents donate the most to charity, East Flatbush is tops when it comes to voting and East New York has 311…
Corruption, cronyism—much was wrong with old-fashioned machine politics. But compared to today’s campaigns of sound-bites and surveys, yesterday’s ward heelers fused genuine relationships between politics and people’s lives.
In heavily Democratic Kings County, there’s little suspense in the presidential race. But Mitt Romney’s a heavy favorite in a few neighborhoods that favored GOP candidates in 2004 and 2008.
In 1969, President Richard Nixon’s Justice Department took the first steps in what he would later declare the “War on Drugs.” This timeline outlines the policing, politics, and culture of…
The executive director and director of operations of New York’s Animal Care & Control resigned last week as the city’s shelter system faces criticism and a key court fight.
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