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On a cold winter day in early 1971, Lew Rudin sat down at the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue with many other passionate New Yorkers for what is now famously known as “the original power breakfast.” At his side, was the dynamic and civic-minded hotelier Robert Tisch. The two were anguished over the dire straits the city had succumbed to, so they hatched a plan.
Voter participation in New York has been slumping for years. This time around, employers across the city and state are trying to help change that. Only 29% of eligible New Yorkers voted in the 2014 midterm elections, leaving us 46th out of 50 states. In 2008, the last time both major parties held a presidential primary, only 19% of eligible voters went to the polls. You can explain away some of this low turnout.
Bill Rudin, chairman of Association for a Better New York (ABNY), spoke to Eyewitness News This Morning anchor Rob Nelson ahead of the New York primary Tuesday. Rudin is working to get voters to the polls April 19 and to let consumers know that on Election Day they are legally entitled to take time off of work to vote.
New York's infrastructure is in dire need of investment. The massive backlog of needs—more than $47 billion of them in New York City alone—requires funding soon, and taxpayers have to foot the bill. Fortunately, there is a way to reduce the cost significantly. Traditional government procurement for construction projects is "design-bid-build," meaning the design firm is selected first and then its design is used to solicit bids from construction contractors.
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