The reason it is imperative for New York to fix its new voting machines immediately can be summed up in four digits: 2000. That was the year of the infamous hanging chads in Florida's flawed election. With the governorship, two U.S. Senate seats, House races, and the entire state Legislature, among other races, up for grabs in the fall, no one wants to chance a similar scenario happening here. Read more »
FUREE member Maisha Morales emphasizes why it's a problem that public money being used for private development that does not guarantee living wages jobs keeps the public in poverty.
"... Not everyone was pleased with the transformation, though; as officials and hotel executives cut the ceremonial red ribbon and hoisted the blue-and-white Sheraton flag above the entrance, about a dozen protesters chanted, 'Houses, not hotels –- the people are not for sale,' and, 'Up with the people, down with developers.'"
