Tag: IND

Op Ed, Politics

Mike Drop: A petition to normalcy, by Michael Racioppo

For those few of you who aren’t keeping track, the year 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of one of the two notable (and corrupting) things about our 29th President Warren Harding’s 1920 campaign: to wit, the slogan  “a return to normalcy” (normalcy being the new normality). While Harding was looking to return to the country to a pre-World War 1 mindset […]

Column, Politics

Mark’s Corner: Nydia’s passion and engagement a stark contrast to supposed opponent, by Mark Shames

On January 21st I attended a meeting of my old political club the Independent Neighborhood Democrats.  The draw for that meeting was an opportunity to hear from our sitting Congresswomen Nydia Velazquez and Yvette Clarke.  We thought we would hear from Nydia’s primary challenger the banker and former deputy superintendent of the NYS Banking Department Mr. Yungman Lee, but he […]