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As the ball drops and Mayor/Elect Mamdani becomes Mayor Mamdani and on New Year’s Day his block party and inaugural speech to tens of thousands of NYers: a victory lap and rolling out his platform: affordability and public safety will be at the top of his list.  A week later the 51-member City Council will electContinue reading “Will Mayor Mamdani, City Speaker Menin and Governor Hochul “Play Nice?””

Zohran wins!!  Champagne corks pop, probably more likely beer can tabs click!! The victory speech, beginning by quoting socialist Eugene V Debs was stirring, watch here, a speech to be remembered, perhaps the beginning of the end of the Trump dynasty,  After the celebration, the post coital reality, governing. The next two months the interregnum, aContinue reading “From Campaigning to Governing: Climbing the Mountain”

A three way race with the most recent poll showing Mamdani leading Cuomo by 13 points, see the polls here.  One of the highly regarded pollsters writes, Caroline Soler     Polling researcher There have not been any new polls since Eric Adams announced he was ending his re-election campaign in September, but the move is unlikely toContinue reading “How Would a Cuomo Victory Impact Education (and the governing of the City)?”

The mayoral election has been unpredictable and weird. The polling in the Rank Order primary had Cuomo winning in the final vote transfer, Mamdani won in the first transfer by 12%.  Why was the polling so wrong?  A poll depends upon identifying a stratified random sample of “likely voters,” and asking the sample their candidateContinue reading “Tik Tok: Five Weeks Until the November 4th Mayoral Election”

In December, 1998 Governor Pataki called a lame duck session of the NYS legislature with two items on the agenda: the creation of charter schools and a substantial raise, guess what happened. The Board of Regents (BoR) and the Charter School Institute, part of SUNY, are authorizers. Charter Schools fall into two categories, the networkContinue reading “Mamdani, Cuomo and Charter Schools”

Vacations over, no more lounging on a beach, back to work, schools open and mayoral candidates begin the sprint to November 4th. A two person race: Mayor Adams polling in single digits, a 68 year old three time elected governor versus a 33 year old Assembly member virtually unknown prior to the June primary. AContinue reading “Post Labor Day: The Race for NYC Mayor Begins”

Tier 6 became law in 2010, currently 50,000 teachers are Tier 6 members in NYC and each year all new teachers become Tier 6 members, read summary of Tier 6 here (fixtier6.org), at the top of the Fix Tier 6 list is reducing retirement age with full benefits from 63 to 55, matching Tier 4.Continue reading “Who Will Be More Effective in Fixing Tier 6? Mamdani, Cuomo or Adams”

On November 4th registered voters in New York City will go to the polls to elect a mayor, a public advocate, a comptroller and fifty-one members of the city council. Registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans 6:1 and 20% of registered voters are not registered in a party.  Although NYC has been overwhelmingly Democratic for 20Continue reading “The UFT Mamdani Mayoral Endorsement”

The exaltation, the partying, the backslapping lasted for about two days!   An in-depth interview in the N.Y. An in-depth interview in the NY Times, Brian Lehrer on Public Radio, and off and running … The November General Election beckons. Micheal Lange, an early Mamdani supporters, writes, Taken for granted by the political establishment, deeply dissatisfiedContinue reading “The Game is On: Mamdani v Cuomo v Adams v Sliwa”