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Could the Barron political dynasty be overthrown?
Charles Barron is vying to win his wife Inez Barron’s New York City Council District 42 seat, which she is leaving this year due to term limits. The majority-Black district encompases East New York and its subsections such as Spring Creek and Starrett City. Charles Barron previously won the same seat in 2001. His wife won the Assembly seat in 2008 and they swapped seats when Charles was term-limited out of the City Council in 2013, with Inez running successfully to replace him and Charles then replacing her in the Assembly.
But some have grown tired of the Barrons’ seat swapping, particularly local politicos who say the district is in need of new leadership, pointing to the neighborhood’s high rates of poverty and unemployment, and a recent upward trend in shootings as some of the most pressing issues in the district. Others remember the iconoclastic, radical couple known for generating their share of controversy, for their
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A group of seven Democratic candidates running for the New York City Council District 20 seat in Flushing, Queens, have come together to form a coalition against Queens Democratic Party-backed candidate Sandra Ung.
The coalition includes Democrats across the ideological spectrum. There’s John Choe, a former chief of staff to state Sen. John Liu, who heads the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce and was backed by the Working Families Party; Anthony Miranda, a retired NYPD sergeant who chairs the National Latino Officers Association; and Neng Wang, the former head of the Chinese American Planning Council who has been endorsed by the New York City Police Benevolent Association.
CBS News Defund the police made headlines. What does it look like now?
Watch the CBSN Originals documentary What Does It Mean to Defund the Police? in the video player above. Defund the police became a rallying cry during Black Lives Matter protests across the U.S. and around the world in the summer of 2020, following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others at the hands of police. But in the months since, how has the debate developed, and what does it mean for American communities?
A new documentary from CBSN Originals features voices on different sides of the issue to help shed light on the movement and the future of policing.
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As the leader of the nation’s largest public school system, Richard Carranza’s decisions affect the everyday lives of hundreds of thousands of students and families in New York City. Yet despite some successes, such as student gains at resource-intensive community schools, Carranza has faced a fierce backlash on efforts to scrap exams to get into elite high schools and gifted and talented programs – and Gov. Andrew Cuomo has exerted control over local COVID-19 school shutdowns and reopenings.
3. Lester Young
Chancellor, New York State Board of Regents
Lester Young was unanimously elected by his fellow Regents this year to serve as the chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, the influential governmental body that sets educational policy and oversees the state Education Department. Young, who has some 50 years of experience positively transforming schools and pro