Tag: Jo Anne Simon

Education

Assembly members Carroll and Simon hold rally to save School Based Health Clinics, by David Saunders

Parents, school faculty, and elected officials joined together on August 9 at the Brooklyn New School to rally against threatened funding cuts to four South Brooklyn School Based Health Centers (SBHC). The four, which included Park Slope’s M.S. 51; Carroll Gardens’ Brooklyn New School and the Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies; Boerum Hill’s P.S. 38; and the Cobble Hill facility […]

Pete Sikora, Politics

Primary Day Endorsements

On September 9th the polls will open at 6 am. Hopefully everyone will be able to figure out where to go and vote. There is a very handy voting booth locator online. It is at http://nyc.pollsitelocator.com. We just checked and it seems to be correct. That’s the easy part. A bit harder is making the right choice. Summertime is a […]

Election Coverage, Election Coveratge, Politics

Assembly candidates square off in series of debates, by George Fiala

Joan Millman’s decision not to seek reelection came as a shock to some. She has represented the 52nd Assembly District in Albany since 1997, and would no doubt be re-elected to as many terms as she wanted. However, at age 74, and with a promised job in the City administration, she decided that her traveling days to Albany should be […]