The city’s Voter Assistance Commission was founded to boost dismal city voter registration rates–but starved for resources, it can do little more than stand by and watch as election day looms.
Term limits were supposed to bring new blood to the City Council, but in some cases the 2001 elections will be a familly affair. Exhibit A: Peter Vallone, Jr., whose loyalty to his Council Speaker father is as ample as his agenda is obscure.
A new neighborhood-by-neighborhood assessment of all of New York City finds some South Bronx communities lagging in a number of key categories.
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