Brigid Bergin
Articles by Brigid Bergin
Brigid Bergin is an award-winning senior reporter on the People and Power desk. She is fiercely committed to telling stories that help people engage and support democracy. In 2022, she hosted a live, ten-week call-in politics show ahead of the midterm elections called The People's Guide to Power. Brigid's reporting in 2017 included some of the first coverage of a political newcomer now known as AOC. In 2016, she broke the news of a voter purge in Brooklyn just days before New York’s presidential primary, triggering city, state and federal investigations. Brigid also guest hosts The Brian Lehrer Show and All Of It. She graduated from the University at Albany and the CUNY Newmark School of Journalism. Got a tip? Email [email protected] or Signal 917-723-4719.
Records obtained by Gothamist show a campaign that was interested in some rules and then ignored numerous information requests as cash flowed in.
The push to bolster the city agency overseeing political campaigns comes as Mayor Eric Adams' fundraising continues to come under question by investigators.
More than 300 candidates registered for the nascent program in this first election cycle.
A federal judge said the state law making it a crime to give food or refreshments to waiting voters is unconstitutional.
The incumbents are the only other congressmembers from New York City besides Jamaal Bowman who are on the primary ballot in June.
Republicans will now press their case in the Court of Appeals, as their party struggles with early voting turnout.
The progressive Brooklyn lawmaker embodies a challenge from Mayor Adams’ political left.
A judge from the Rochester area ruled that the Democrat-led state Legislature didn’t follow the proper process.
A proposed constitutional amendment could shift city elections from odd to even years.
He still faces a federal indictment and criminal trial this fall.
A new website offers information about voting, community events and opportunities across the city.
A federal appeals court reinstated charges against the former New York politician last month.
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