Watch this NY Times video article (from Oct. 2007!) of the Dominican American community in the district.■...
...I rallied with a coalition of community groups and my dear friends Senator Chuck Schumer and New York Assemblyman Keith Wright. We gathered in support of Section 8 housing in Upper Manhattan a year ago, on this very date. Reproduced...
...I was pushing for an end to unjust drug laws that target low-level crack cocaine addicts and sellers, hold powder cocaine users to a different standard, and leave major drug kingpins off the hook. Those priorities seem off the mark...
...Fidel Castro resigned as president of Cuba, and we wrote about it. Reproduced below is an opinion editorial – dated February 19, 2008 – that makes the case for renewed diplomacy and the lifting of restrictions on Americans' fundamental right...