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The Bronx of 19 9 0 is c ertainly not the same as the Bronx of 2 02 0 thanks to Serrano’s fight to repair dormant sec tions of the borou gh.
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New York City Council Member Diana Ayala made the toughest choice of her career, compounded by blowback she received from some Bronx City Council colleagues, when she voted to close Rikers Island. But the former chief of staff to her predecessor, Melissa Mark-Viverito, carried out a promise from her former boss in seeing it through. The Bronx and Manhattan lawmaker has been a prolific legislator, drafting 18 bills, with seven of them passing.
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New York City Council Member New York City Council Member Francisco Moya has taken a bite out of food delivery service app goliaths that have gouged New York City’s restaurant industry through a bill introduced earlier this year. The ambitious Queens lawmaker with a propensity for helping the downtrodden now has his sights set on helping airline workers who are facing layoffs as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
“the Walter Cronkite of Latin America.”
JORGE RAMOS
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Whether he’s documenting a ravaged Puerto Rico following natural disasters, confronting President Donald Trump, or being detained for asking Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro tough questions on conditions in the country, there’s nothing that keeps Jorge Ramos from reporting what’s happening to millions of Latinos. The eight-time Emmy-winning anchor has been a journalist for 40 years, and has been called
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spying program, the Obama administration’s drone strike program and the Trump administration’s insistence on keeping prisoners detained during the pandemic.
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Executive Director Americ an Civil Liberties Union One of the most consistent thorns in President Trump’s side has been Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. At the helm of the national nonprofit for nearly 20 years, Romero has waged legal battles against the Bush administration’s
Francisco Moya is known for helping the downtrodden.
JOSÉ E. SERRANO
Congress Member Rep. José Serrano’s career, which has spanned five presidencies, 9/11, the Great Recession, and a changing political atmosphere, ends this year in the same district he’s represented for nearly a generation. The South Bronx legislator – the most senior Hispanic elected official and longest-serving Puerto Rican congressman – caps more than 45 years as an elected official, beginning with a 15year run in the Assembly. The Bronx of 1990 is certainly not the same as the Bronx of 2020 thanks to Serrano’s fight to secure federal dollars to clean up the Bronx River, create more affordable housing and repair dormant sections of the Bronx.
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The political consulting duo remains a fixture in New York City politics, with Roberto Ramírez once serving as Bronx Democratic Party boss and Luis Miranda serving on the campaigns of Charles Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Hillary Clinton in their
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as chair of the transportation committee. He has backed a proposal to bail out cashstrapped cabbies, a bill to strip reckless drivers of their vehicles and moved to authorize greater oversight of the multibilliondollar LaGuardia Airport AirTrain expansion project.
August 24, 2020