COMMON COUNCIL MEETING Common Council Chambers Monday, May 7, 2012 6:30 p.m. I. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: ROLLCALL II. REVIEW OF MINUTES: Common Council Meeting of March 19,2012 III. READING OF ITEMS by the City Chamberlain of any resolutions not listed on the printed agenda. IV. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: Three (3) minutes per person up...
In December, Brian Doyle, a member for eight years of the COP Democratic Committee and former Chair of the Common Council, reluctantly resigned from the Committee because of potential conflict with his new job. This is what Peter...
Famously, it ain’t over ’til it’s over, but it’s good enough so far to pop open a pretty excellent vintage Champagne. Swimming hard and handily against a County wide Republican tide, it looks like 7 of the 8 Democratic...
An accusation of election fraud was lodged today with the New York State Board of Elections against the campaign of John Tkazyik for reelection as Mayor of the City...
The testimony here, in the form of letters to the editor of the Poughkeepsie Journal, are from a former Council Member and former Planning Board Chair, who have keener...
In the Democratic Primary elections in the City of Poughkeepsie the voters, in a comparatively large turnout, overwhelmingly confirmed the Committee’s endorsed candidates. Ken Levinson is now the official...
The spirit of the Arab Spring has spread to Poughkeepsie. As in the wave of democracy sweeping across the Middle East, the citizens of Poughkeepsie have raised their voices...
The seat on the Common Council just vacated by Ralph Coates, an enrolled Democrat who served three-quarters of his first term before resigning to serve on the Poughkeepsie School...
It has been difficult in Poughkeepsie, as perhaps elsewhere, to uncover and prosecute corruption in local government. A closed door to back rooms, political cover-up and fear of reprisal...
