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Meet Alvin Bragg with Tom Allon
Join The Common Good to learn more about Alvins Bragg’s impressive record and his plans for the district, moderated by City & State publisher Tom Allon.
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Alvin Bragg has spent the better part of two decades in the courtroom, standing up to the powerful and fighting to get justice. He served as the Chief Deputy Attorney General in New York State where he oversaw some of the office’s biggest cases, including suing Harvey Weinstein and his company for the existence of a hostile work environment; challenging the Trump administration over the census; and bringing significant criminal charges in bribery, securities fraud, and Medicaid fraud.
Alvin Bragg has spent the better part of two decades in the courtroom, standing up to the powerful and fighting to get justice. He is now running for Manhattan District Attorney. Join The Common Good to learn more about Bragg’s impressive record and his plans for the district, moderated by City & State publisher Tom Allon.
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The Common Good New York City Mayoral Series with Eric Adams
The Common Good’s New York City Mayoral Speaker Series presents a conversation with candidate Eric Adams about his candidacy. Moderated by past TCG speaker, investment and businessman Glenn Hutchins.
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The Common Good New York City Mayoral Series presents a conversation with candidate Eric Adams about his race for NY Mayor. Moderated by publisher Tom Allon.
Thursday, April 15th
5:00pm-6:00pm ET
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Eric Adams is a politician serving as the 18th and current Borough President of Brooklyn, New York City since 2014. He is a candidate in the 2021 New York City mayoral election in the democratic primary.
Adams served as an officer in the New York City Transit Police and then the New York City Police Department for over two decades, retiring at the rank of captain.In November 2013, Adams was elected Brooklyn Borough President, the first African American to hold the position.
Eric is a lifelong New Yorker. He received his master’s degree in public administration from Marist College, and is a graduate of New York City Technical College and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is also a proud product of New York City public schools, including Bayside High School in Queens. Today he lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where he has resided for over 20 years.
Tom Allon is the president and publisher of City & State, a company dedicated to covering New York’s local and state politics and policy.
Allon has over three decades of experience in New York’s media world, both on the publishing and editorial side of the business. He started his career in 1986 as the editor-in-chief of a weekly newspaper, The West Side Spirit, which won a number of awards for investigative reporting during his tenure. He then became the publisher and vice president of a public media company, News Communications, which owned 23 publications in the metropolitan area and Washington, D.C. He was involved in the creation of the daily Capitol Hill newspaper, The Hill, which became the inspiration for City & State. He also spent a decade building a private media company, Manhattan Media, which owned AVENUE magazine, Dan’s Papers, New York Family, five weekly newspapers in Manhattan and City & State.
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