https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:19:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/5331 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/5331#respond Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:13:23 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=5331 On May 29, 2009, The New York Times published the obituary of L. D. "None of the Above" Knox, 80, a farmer and politician from Winnsboro, Louisiana who had crusaded for over forty years to make "None of the Above" an option on the Pelican State's ballots. In 1979, he went so far as to make "None of the Above" his additional middle name and used it thereafter whenever he ran for office. ]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/5331/feed 0 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/4247 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:45:45 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=4247 Last week, a special election was held for Bronx Borough President, a job which, since the Charter reforms of the early 1990s, is largely ceremonial. The marvelously named incumbent, Adolfo Carrion, had resigned office to accept appointment as Director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs....The Assemblywoman's name rang a chime in memory. She had been ]]>