Flushing pols rally for more cops after killings
Posted by Rebecca Henely and Christina Santucci in Assembly, City Council, District 20, District 22, District 22 on August 5, 2010 | No Comments
City Councilmen Peter Koo (R-Flushing) and Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria) held a rally for greater police presence in Flushing at the James A. Bland Community Center at 133-36 Roosevelt Ave., across the street from the Mobil gas station where Pakistani immigrant Nadeem Khan was killed July 25.
Queens officials and candidates pledge reform in Albany
Posted by Anna Gustafson in Assembly, Congress, District 10, District 11, District 13, District 14, District 15, District 16, District 22, District 23, District 24, District 26, District 28, District 36, District 38, U.S. House on July 22, 2010 | No Comments
Senators, Assembly and Congress members and those running for those positions have signed pledges on Wednesday by New York Uprising, a non-partisan, independent group formed by Koch that has a mission to “end corruption in Albany and reinstate the public’s faith in government by offering real, honest and sensible solutions that legislators and candidates can implement, adhere to and be held accountable for executing once elected or re-elected to office.”
Guv signs Meng bill giving counseling to hate offenders
Posted by Connor Adams Sheets in Assembly, District 22 on July 15, 2010 | No Comments
Judges who convict any New Yorker of a hate crime will have the ability to order the offender to undergo an educational program as a result of a bill signed into law last week by Gov. David Paterson.
Meng calls out supermarket shortage in State of the District speech
Posted by Connor Adams Sheets in Assembly, District 22 on July 15, 2010 | 2 Comments
State Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D-Flushing) used part of her second-annual report on the state of her district Monday evening to discuss the fallout over the recent closing of the Key Food supermarket on Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing.
Students rally for free MetroCards
Posted by Nathan Duke and Anna Gustafson in Assembly, District 15, District 19, District 22, District 23, District 25, District 28, State Senate on December 23, 2009 | No Comments
State Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D-Flushing) joined Queens students last weekend in Flushing to protest cuts in the MTA’s 2010 budget that will force schoolchildren who receive free MetroCards to start paying fares. Meng and a small crowd of students held signs reading “No Cuts to Student Aid” as they decried the Metropolitan Transportation Authority actions [...]
S.J. Jung receives Dem club’s honors
Posted by Connor Adams Sheets in Assembly, City Council, District 20, District 22 on December 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
The Democratic Club of Flushing recognized longtime Flushing community leader S.J. Jung Sunday for his more than 20 years of commitment to the area and its people. He received the award at the group’s annual awards and year-end dinner at the Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel in Flushing for “raising the standard of the September 2009 [...]
Paterson droll as ever during Queens visit
Posted by Jeremy Walsh in Assembly, District 22, Governor on September 25, 2009 | No Comments
Don’t count embattled Gov. David Paterson out just yet. The Manhattan Democrat maintained his characteristic sense of humor Friday at New York Hospital Queens as he fielded reporters’ questions about news reports that the White House had asked him not to run for election in 2010. “I’m running for governor and I think he’s running [...]
