Peter Vallone Sr. Archives - Progress New York

Letter From New York Queens CC BY 3.0 AAK

July 21, 2018

Despite Trump’s deportation machine and crisis over family separations, for-profit ICE jail in Queens goes overlooked

One way that the Queens Detention Facility could be put on the social agenda would be to make its closure an issue in the much-speculated maneuvering to succeed Richard Brown as Queens District Attorney.

June 7, 2018

Joe Crowley, the Democratic Party machine, and the lack of democracy in Queens and New York City

EDITORIAL : The real source of Joseph Crowley’s power is not his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he represents the 14th House district, but, rather, his direction and control of the Queens County Democratic Party ‘organization,’ a.k.a., ‘the machine.’