For the Mayor's Community Affairs Commissioner Marco A. Carrión it was a similar story. Carrion grew up in the Bronx and some of his earliest memories were watching the Yankees win the 1978 World Series. "I did not imagine I would grow up working for a Red Sox fan," he told me.

HUGE VICTORY: Pell grants will be restored for incarcerated college students after 26 years. We celebrate this victory and call on New York to do right by incarcerated college students and restore TAP grants on day 1 of 2021. #JusticeRoadmap politico.com/news/2020/12/2…

Me no cry because cookie is finished. Me smile because cookie happened.

#TeachTruth

Since Dec 2020 . Peers #RestInBeats BIZ

I'll say again: none of this extremism will hurt Republicans at the polls if Republicans don't let people vote. It's not an *accident* that SCOTUS gutted the voting rights act BEFORE it gutted Roe v. Wade. That was the necessary order of operations for their plans.

Still mourning the loss of Tito. nytimes.com/2022/01/29/art…

On behalf of a grateful city, I offer condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of former deputy mayor Laura Anglin, a true public servant who worked tirelessly on operations and helped manage challenging crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic. May she rest in peace.

The GOP is trying to impeach judges because of their politics. But the Democrats remain unwilling to say the "i" word about the most corrupt SCOTUS justice in history that we know of. I'm sick of following rules the other side doesn't respect. thenation.com/article/politi…

NYC CLC, AFL-CIO's Vincent Alvarez thinks labor will have a different relationship w/ the new mayor and looks forward to being at the table

The pain we've seen through the city, w/ 50,000 kids living in temp housing & 20,000 in shelters mean the Mayor will hit the ground running.

AFL-CIO targets GOP with immigration ad blitz politi.co/1ekfurv

Mitch McConnell & Rand Paul want to attach national "right to work" amendment to bill banning job bias against gays. freebeacon.com/mcconnell-paul…

Grim sports note: Rangers lone NY team w/winning record, & barely. NY teams in b-ball, football, hockey have collective W-L of 35-56.

5 Ways to Support #WalmartStrikers truth-out.org/opinion/item/2… #FightForFifteen

June 28, 1990 at Tiger Stadium in Detroit. He wore the United Auto Workers jacket and hat we Michiganders gave him.

CLC Pres Alvarez: when we are unified we can't be stopped. #allofus #nyc1u