Last month, I had a few things to say about the proposed City Council reapportionment plan and how it relates to Hasidic Williamsburg and other communities in the greater northwest portion of Brooklyn. Among the things I said was:

Wishful Thinking Department:

My recent piece on how City Council redistricting is playing out in Hasidic Williamsburg, follow-up

Not only is Walmart selling assault weapons, but they're selling assault weapons made in China with non-union slave labor!

I once noted that it was perhaps unfair some folks are judged by a single moment in their long lives. In that vein, I went onto predict that when Rabbi Abraham Hecht died, his Times obit would say "called for Rabin's Assassination."

Andrew gives a good speech while his father gave great ones.

However, Andrew is more successful in passing his agenda, while Mario mostly talked about it.

As I reported last month

2013 A Look Ahead: National Issues to Watch.  Here's how we took on the topic on RNN-TV. Expect much more gridlock.

What can we expect in National issues as we entered 2013? More on Gun Control? Marijuana laws? Panel guests Dominic Carter and TJMCormack chimed in on "RIchard French Live"

Cuomo Bullshit Watch (Part 832):

I finished this story on 12/27/12 (and, except for the Postscript, it should be read as if it was posted on that date). Unfortunately, the story was originally illustrated with photos, and no one, including the owners of this site, seems to be able to post them in their proper place in the story (or at all).

Can anyone explain to me why the man who managed Andrew Gounardes' State senate campaign against Marty Golden is now working for a Mayoral candidate who helped Golden get elected to the Senate in the first place?

Unless Ben, Gur or EnWhySeaWonk answer my pleas to post my holiday story about my family “temporarily” adopting a cat left homeless by Sandy (which I can’t manage to post, because it contains photos), and barring any late breaking news that cannot be ignored, this will be my last post of the year. This will also be

In the end of the ugly exercise in reciprocal intellectual bankruptcy that was this year’s 15^th SD Senate race, incumbent Joe Addabbo beat Councilman Eric Ulrich 42,187 (57.57%) to 31,036 (42.36%), with 51 write-in votes going to others (which shows remarkable restraint on

This summer at the Democratic National Convention, Jerry Nadler buttonholed me and started a conversation which he began by saying “On December 31, 2010, you wrote…”