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MNN and Gotham Gazette are pleased to bring you a series of interviews with the candidates running for office in New York City's 2021 elections. Hosted by Gotham Gazette's executive editor Ben Max, this week on #DecisionNYC, Ben Max talks with NYC #Mayoral candidates #FernandoMateo and #BillPepitone who are running as Republicans. Decision NYC with Ben Max airs Sunday at 9pm on MNN1 and MNN5. Repeats on Friday at 6pm.
There’s two-fold purpose to this year’s Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival — providing a free, virtual high quality virtual concert with Grammy Award-winning artist Jon Secada and top Jamaican performers, that will benefit “industry professionals impacted by the pandemic
New York Democrats Look to Censure Andrew Cuomo Eleven New York State Democrats introduced a resolution on Monday to censure Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo for covering up nursing home deaths and threatening lawmakers. The resolution, signed by elected members of the New York State Democratic Party, condemned Cuomo for his lack of transparency on nursing home deaths and “belligerent conduct” towards public officials, according to the New York Post. “Actions have consequences. I consider it my responsibility as a representative of the Democrats in my community to hold members of our party...
Gotham Gazette and City Limits tag-team the city’s politics and policy news. As the 2021 New York City elections unfold, voters will want to hear from candidates for Mayor, City Council, and other offices on a wide variety of issues. In these video briefs, hosts Ben Max of Gotham Gazette and Jarrett Murphy of City Limits reset the discussion on issues facing the city. On this episode Ben and Max talk education and the economy. Max and Murphy: On the Issues airs Mondays at 8PM on MNN 1 and MNN 5. Listen to their podcast on WBAI 99.5 FM on Wednesdays from 5 to 6 p.m. Listen to M...
The New York Mayoral Race Has Become a Zoom Hell Intelligencer 2/22/2021 David Freedlander By the 90th minute of the Staten Island Democratic Club’s Zoom mayoral forum, Richard Flanagan, a professor of political science at the College of Staten Island and the event’s moderator, was getting confused: Most of the candidates had already left, and the index cards he was using to ask them questions were now all out of order. “The field has thinned,” he announced into his headset from his Bay Ridge home, trying to recover. “I’m told the winner will be the person who st...