In the male-dominated International Brotherhood of Teamsters, where she blazed a trail to a top leadership position, Sandy Pope was never mistaken for a guy, with one exception.

As a rambunctious nine year old, Antonio Centeno spent his after-school hours immersed in games or anchored to the television. Focusing on homework was another matter.

“My problem was being able to work without watching television” he recalled, adding that even, today, as an adult, “I just seem to gravitate to multi-tasking between two to three activities at a time.”

Amid new slides, swing bars, and volleyball, basketball and tennis courts, third and fourth graders Eric, Charlie, Sabrina, Nathaniel, Kayanna, Marquis, Tamia and Elizabeth were bounding about excitedly on a frigid pre-winter morning outside P.S. 93 in the Bronx.

They’re big, they’re bulky and they’re based on technology from another century, but don’t dismiss New York City’s 800-pound mechanical voting machine just yet.

Twenty years ago, George Gonzalez took his first job at the New York City Board of Elections answering calls from voters at the agency’s phone bank. Over the years, he’s moved up, taking on various positions that have exposed him to just about every aspect of ballot access, from primaries and general elections for the lowly party committee positions to counting the large city vote in mayoral and presidential campaigns.

In the wake of recent court decisions, more reporters are going to jail to protect their confidential sources, putting a robust press at risk unless Congress approves national legislation to shield journalists and their sources, according a top First Amendment litigator for ABC News.

America’s Food Stamp program has curbed hunger in poor areas but has contributed to the nation’s spiraling rate of obesity, diabetes and other serious diet-related health problems. Learn about efforts to teach low-income shoppers how to make better nutritional choices.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s new chairman of the state Parole Board unveiled a comprehensive series of reforms that seek to prepare prisoners for their return to society “from the moment they enter prison.”

Wielding bullhorns, carrying picket signs and chanting slogans, more than 100
Teamsters union members converged on the Long Island City headquarters of gourmet grocery deliver FreshDirect to demand better wages and protest the termination of two union sympathizers.

A glimpse into any newsroom in the 1950s and 60’s would yield a similar sight: a curved table surrounded by a group of smoking, spitting, and drinking men.

But this was about to change in the late 60’s, at the “copydesk” of the New York Times when New York’s largest and most prestigious paper hired Betsy Wade, the first woman to work among its male editing corps.