Jonas Salganik
New York NFL Preview 2000
By Jonas SalganikThere is good news for New York football fans this season; you regular Joes...
Fasten Your Seatbelts, Brooklyn, It’s the City Council Election
By Jonas SalganikContinuity is the rule in politics; when you win a seat of power you hold on to it as long as you can. And it has been a relatively easy game to win for incumbent politicians since they have at least two clear advantages come election time.
Judge Not…A Viewers’ Guide to the Kings County Courthouse Scandal
By Jonas SalganikWhen a tightly organized group of people takes control of an electoral process it becomes a political machine: eight Brooklyn Supreme Court Justices are being investigated for bribery and nepotism.
King Me Mayor of NYC
By Jonas SalganikDemocracy is stressful; vote for the wrong candidate and you own a piece of responsibility for whatever instability and dysfunction results. And it is hard to tell the difference between the warped personality, driven to compete at politics out of some pathology like deep feelings of inadequacy, and the natural-born apparatchik you may think you are getting.
The Battle for Borough Hall
By Jonas SalganikThe office of Borough President is the brass ring of Brooklyn politics, the top of the borough’s political food chain.
Hell in a Hand Basket: An Election Postscript
By Jonas SalganikFrom now on it is axiomatic that anyone willing and able to spend an obscene amount of their own money to run for any public office, in this case an estimated $50 or $60 million to be Mayor of NYC, is a serious candidate, no matter how loopy they may be in any other aspect of their lives.
Harold O. Levy Takes Charge
By Jonas SalganikFor years the New York City schools have been a political dog-pit where angry parents, desperate teachers, Kafkaesque bureaucrats, and entry level spokespeople from the city’s various ethnic-political alliances engaged in a particularly ugly form of gridlock.
Hell in a Hand Basket
By Jonas SalganikBrooklyn is a long way from the ancient holy lands of the Bible, but Middle East politics impact our borough directly like nowhere else in the USA.
