Queens Chronicle — The group of state legislators that drew the proposed district lines for the Assembly and Senate should be exiled to New Jersey after creating areas resembling Rorschach ink blots that split apart communities and dilute minority voters’ power — or, at the very least, be sent back ...
Brooklyn Independent Television — It happens every 10 years, the process of redrawing electoral districts. The maps are in and critics contend the redraw dilutes the voting power of many communities of color. We’re reading between the lines with Esmeralada Simmons of the Center for Law and Social Ju...
Hartford Courant — No one denies that long-time Connecticut resident Sujitno Sajuti should have filed the proper immigration forms, that deadlines were missed, and that rules are rules.
And no one argues that in the current heated campaign season, breaking the rules places an immigrant at risk. But...
New York Times – The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is examining complaints that Harvard and Princeton have discriminated against Asian-American undergraduate applicants, highlighting a concern of many Asian-American parents.
The inquiry was first reported by Bloomberg News.
The...
Progressive – The New York Police Department is sorely in need of independent oversight.
The NYPD’s use of an anti-Muslim propaganda film, “The Third Jihad” – and the role of NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly in the documentary – demands accountability.
The NYPD showed “The Third Jihad,” a bigoted piece...
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Mediabistro —
Jim Acosta has been promoted to national political correspondent for CNN. The suburban DC native has mostly been covering politics since joining CNN in 2007. In 2009, Cuban-American Acosta traveled to Havana where he reported on US-Cuban relations and met his own long-lost relatives. ...
Crains New York Business – Two weeks ago, the legislator-led task force known as LATFOR, charged with redrawing New York state’s electoral lines, produced a set of maps that might well be described as an incumbent protection program. Both Democratic and Republican majorities went out of their way to...
The Maynard Institute — Throughout the campaign season, Republican candidates have repeatedly cited China as an economic threat to the United States, and some have run political ads that civil rights groups say are xenophobic and racist. Concern is growing that such attacks may lead to more discrimi...
Education Week – New York has drafted its application to get out from under provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act and has been getting lots of feedback on how to improve its plan before submitting it to the U.S. Department of Education later this month.
New York will be the third among the “Bi...
Queens Chronicle – Queens legislators and residents lambasted the state group tasked with redrawing district lines that will cement New York’s political landscape for the next decade, accusing its members of splitting apart communities and pitting democratic lawmakers each against each other.
One m...
The New York Times – A proposed redrawing of New York State’s political districts came under intense criticism on Monday, as civil rights leaders said the maps did not fairly represent blacks and Hispanics in an increasingly diverse state, and Democrats said they would file a lawsuit asking a judge ...
The Brian Lehrer Show — Jerry Vattamala, staff attorney for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, discusses how the redistricting plans released by the legislature create majority Asian-American districts. Suffolk County Assemblyman Phil Ramos talks about the Hispanic community in Lon...
Village Voice – Yesterday, the state – after a fair amount of delay and confusion – finally released map proposals for new district lines in New York, based on Census data.
We heard from one angry pol yesterday, predictably mad at the political motivations that often drive the process. He’s not the...
WNYC — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, which was part of the coalition that released the Unity Maps, sent out a review of the new redistricting proposal. While they were happy to see an increase in Asian-majority districts, the statement wasn’t without qualification:
SD 16 – ...
Albany Times Union – The Asian-American Legal Defense and Education Fund has put out its comments on LATFOR’s proposed maps for the state Senate and Assembly. The group’s response is of special interest considering that Republican Sen. Mike Nozzolio has been deploying the argument that the phenomeno...
NY1 – Legislative maps have always had districts that look awkward or even funny. Some call the current configuration for the 51st state Senate district “Abraham Lincoln riding a vacuum cleaner.”
The proposed new 34th District is better described as “the flying bat.”
But good government groups are...
Capital Tonight – The brilliant duo of Hunter Walker and Colin Campbell have a fantastic slideshow over at The New York Observer they’re calling “The 20 Ugliest Gerrymandered Districts.”
Alas, as I pointed out on the show last night, the district formally known as “Abe Lincoln Riding Vaccum” would ...
Gothamist – NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly rarely apologizes, but yesterday he was forced to drop the A-Bomb in an attempt to defuse the controversy over an anti-Islam propaganda documentary that was screened on a continuous loop for over 1,200 police officers in 2010. Kelly makes a brief appearance in...
FirstPost World – New York City’s Muslims called on Wednesday for Ray Kelly, commissioner of the New York Police Department (NYPD), to step down after he admitted he cooperated with filmmakers of The Third Jihad, a documentary film on the rise of radical Islam, which was screened for 1,500 police of...
