Jamaican-American Vivia Morgan is running for New York Senate on Anti-Prohibition Party ticket.
Talk about a grass-roots campaign!
A Jamaican-American woman from Crown Heights is running for Senate on a one-plank platform: legalize marijuana.
Her slogan? “Tax pot, not people.”
Vivia Morgan, a 43-year-old construction worker, says that legalizing ganja is the first step to righting the social injustices of the world while also providing much-needed jobs and revenue for the state.
“Young guys are standing on the corner selling drugs because there are no jobs out there!” said Morgan. “If we could legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana, maybe they could open up a [weed] store like the liquor stores that are on the corner every three or four blocks!”
Morgan, who is running...
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Backman meets Mets owner — to talk stadium renovations?! Come on!
And they talk about renovations to the stadium?!
Friday, September 3, 2010 12:12 PM EDTI taught I taw a parrot-poacher
A pair of parrot poachers are poaching parrots.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:08 PM EDT
Bedbugs continue their assault on our criminal justice system
Bedbugs have opened up a second front in what appears to be the pesky mites’ war on criminal justice offices in Downtown, showing up this week at the Legal Aid Society on Livingston Street.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 5:10 PM EDTSomething is fishy! Not a single ticket for errant anglers in Prospect Park
Who is this renegade angler?
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:08 PM EDTSeaside silence! Marty's concerts go out with a whisper
Bring the noise!
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 4:10 PM EDTFriendly 'ghost'! Bike memorials now appear safe from city trashing
Those all-white memorial bikes scattered across the borough may have a new lease on life, after talks between “ghost bike” supporters and the city appear to have led to a compromise that would spare the memorials from new rules designed to rid the streets of “derelict” two-wheelers.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 7:11 PM EDTBlood-thirsty man stabs other man over parking spot
Brighton road rage
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 7:11 PM EDTPlanks? No thanks! Group hates concrete Boardwalk
A new community group is fighting the Riegelmann Boardwalk’s transformation into a cementwalk — saying the city’s plan to get rid of wood will create an eyesore and leave joggers with wobbly knees.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 1:13 PM EDTNew group opposes Coney Island's concrete planks
A new community group is fighting the Riegelmann Boardwalk’s transformation into a cementwalk — saying the city’s plan to get rid of wood will create an eyesore and leave joggers with wobbly knees.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 8:08 PM EDTOfficer suspended in 'asthma girl' death
An 84th Precinct cop was suspended without pay on Tuesday after apparently failing to assist an 11-year-old girl dying from an asthma attack as her panicked mother scrambled to get her to Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 9:08 PM EDTThis Slope man wheels and deals
Lenny Shiller is still having fun, fun, fun — and he doesn’t even have a T-Bird.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 5:11 PM EDTRoofus: Cops are to blame for 'ghost' bikes
Our cartoonist takes has a different take on the city’s “ghost bike” situation.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 4:10 PM EDTSeaside silence! Marty's concerts go out with a whisper
Bring in da noise!
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 7:11 PM EDTIs it 'double dipping' for lawmakers to take their pension?
During election debates in our Downtown offices last week, two challengers attacked two Assembly incumbents for taking their pensions while still in office. Assemblywoman Rhoda Jacobs actually receives a pension for the job she currently holds, while Assemblywoman Joan Millman receives her pension from her days as a public school teacher. Is that kosher? Read below:
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:09 PM EDTDouble dipping is wrong
The reason that elected officials should not be allowed to double dip (or collect two government paychecks at the same time) is simple: They make the laws that govern the state’s pension system. It is a conflict of interest in its most basic form and begs the question: What is to prevent them from passing laws and making rules that benefit themselves?
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:09 PM EDTIt's legal and it's my money
The following is an edited transcript from a debate between Assemblywoman Rhoda Jacobs and her challenger Michele Adolphe in our offices on Aug. 19. Jacobs has been the Assembly for more than 30 years, where her annual salary is $104,500. She also receives a pension for her work as a lawmaker of $71,000 per year. Here’s what she said when our panel, and Adolphe, pressed her on this unusual arrangement:
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 12:09 AM EDT'Don't hurt my baby!'
62nd Precinct
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 3:09 PM EDT
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A-Rod, the Heat, and a bunch of other stuff
Ever since my youth in the middle of the last century I’ve been a fan of New York baseball teams. I have a lot of respect for a man who has the talent to hit a 90 mile an hour fastball into the outfield stands 400 feet away. I have fond memories of being there witnessing my heroes Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Roy Campanella and others — many, many others — who gave us that reason to stand and cheer. Last year, on Feb. 9, 2009, Alex Rodriguez broke the hearts of many of the youngsters who adore him. That’s the day he admitted to using performance enhancing drugs, not for one week, not for one month, but from 2001 to spring training of 2003. Last month A-Rod hit homer No. 600, another milestone in a super-sensational career. Congratulations. If not in the record books, at least in my mind and in the thoughts of many, the supremacy of baseball should be placing an asterisk next to the slugger’s records.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 12:09 AM EDTFacebook versus the wooden spoon
Don’t stalk me, mom,” says the joy of my life.
Friday, September 3, 2010 4:12 PM EDTA salute to the working stiffs
September 6 is Labor Day, and a time to honor those “who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold.”
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 12:09 AM EDTLate-night surfing reveals hidde treasures
It’s 4 am, the house is really quiet. You are now wide awake and cannot fall back to sleep. What do you do to pass the time away? Many of us read a book with the hopes that it will make our eyes tired. Others slip out quietly to the kitchen for some ibbergerblibberness … leftovers to you. Me? I fire up the computer, answer my e-mail, and then examine out-of-town newspapers. I like to see what the stories of both the left wing and the few remaining right wing newspapers have to say and how they are translated into editorials. Last night I was glued to a story under the following long headline —“Obama Now Blames Poor Job Numbers on Congressional Inaction. Wait! His Party Runs Congress.”
Thursday, September 2, 2010 7:11 PM EDT
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