Borough Presidents’ Offices Are Up for Grabs. Here’s Why NYC’s Mini-Mayors Matter
Here’s what you need to know about borough presidents and how they can help you. They’re more than just cheerleaders ask former Brooklyn ‘Beep’ Marty Markowitz
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Enough about the mayor’s race! Let’s take a break and focus instead on New York’s five mini-mayors, and the influence they have to shape your neighborhood.
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us. we re also pleased to have the folks from booktv from c-span with us tonight, and they will be recording this event for future be broadcasts. as we begin, let me ask you to, please, if you have a cell phone, a pager, anything electronic to just take it out now and silence it, and your neighbors and viewers of the program will appreciate it. tonight i m especially honored to the have two very loyal society library members speak to us about their new book, pax ethnica: where and how diversity succeeds, published by public affairs here in thy. karl e. meyer and shareen blair brysac have been members of this library since 1974. mr. meyer and ms. brysac are the authors of numerous books which you will see in your program, many of which are on display here at the front of our members room. i would like to take a moment to mention that the last time they spoke for us in 2008 they talked about their book kingmakers: the invention of the modern middle east, and the recording f
the united states. and remember that roy lundquist did that in the clinton impeachment trial. later, when he was asked what it had amounted to, he says i did nothing in particular, and i did it very well. [laughter] the duties of the chief justice are undefined. much about the supreme court, initially, was undefined. they really had to create itself, and it is done so not in a straight line progression, but it has done so through cases. the cases, in the early years, it had to decide because it had very little discretion over what to hear. the cases these days, they get to choose to decide. even that was a choice by the supreme court. most appellate courts today in this country, they have to take what comes. they act sorted as courts overview, courts of appeal, courts of error correction. that was the supreme court s initial fate, or so it seemed. but william howard taft, after his presidency, he was becoming chief justice of the united states. and he cites this up and though