Citizens in Charge

So Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has decided he wants a third term. Now what?

The simplest and most direct route — and the strategy that Bloomberg advisers say he is most likely to pursue — is to have the City Council revise the term limits law, at least temporarily. The law was adopted in a 1993 voter referendum that amended the City Charter.

Flushing residents are collecting signatures from passers-by to recall two local politicians—Councilman John Liu (Queens) and New York State Assemblywoman Ellen Young. The Epoch Times interviewed some of the supporters on July 20, 2008.

After two presidential runs in one year, former Senator Mike Gravel is setting his sites on New York City politics, specifically a grassroots effort to have New York City citizens vote to establish a new September 11th investigation commission.

Every once in a while, since I reached the age of reason, I’ve heard residents of upstate New York, particularly Western New York, talk about “seceding” from New York City.

The thought-to-word process usually took the form of mumbling and grumbling about some new fiscal atrocity dreamed up by Big Apple legislators and visited upon the upstate regions, which benighted Manhattan residents seem to think is generally centered somewhere around Peekskill. More often than not, I was amused. Now, I am paying attention.

When it comes to the state and local ballot measures before voters across the country on Tuesday, it is mostly about the money.

If your radar screen is full today with politically identified flying objects — candidates running for local offices — be aware that there’s something election-related that’s coming in pretty low, obscured by inattention.