Latest Stories By Jill Terreri Ramos

New York’s problems counting votes in the June primary made national news, and some worry the November general election will be plagued by the same issues.  A vast expansion of voting by absentee ballot in the primary, to keep voters safe from the COVID-19 pandemic, led to problems. The absentee votes overwhelmed a system designed for […]

President Donald Trump and other prominent Republicans pushed theories about the motivations of vandals who toppled a statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass from its pedestal in a Rochester park over the July 4 weekend.  In a tweet, Trump called the vandalism the work of “anarchists.”  > Statue of Frederick Douglass Torn Down in Rochester https://t.co/8iEBxSHm52 via […]