Politics: Brooklyn election workers undercounted hundreds, perhaps thousands, of votes for Barack Obama in the New York primary earlier this month, spawning calls to investigate the Board of Elections and even conspiracy theories that workers were trying to help home state Sen. Hillary Clinton. Comments (8).

Bell tolls for the Gowanus

By Mike McLaughlin

Toll Brothers

Carroll Gardens: The dream of a Gowanus Canal lined with homes and esplanades instead of oil companies and junkyards took a step forward as a developer of suburban McMansions unveiled its vision for a 447-unit development that actually uses the fetid canal as a selling point. Comments (4).

Hillary in trouble? Superdelegates to the rescue!

By Mike McLaughlin

Politics: Two Brooklyn members of Congress say they’ll vote for Sen. Hillary Clinton at the Democratic convention in August, even though the majority of voters in their districts cast ballots for Sen. Barack Obama in the New York primary, The Brooklyn Paper has learned. Comments (3).

Downturn! Big D’Town project hits the brakes

By Dana Rubinstein

Downtown plan: The abrupt shutdown of a major development project just blocks from Metrotech is a setback to plans for a new 24/7 Downtown Brooklyn, experts are saying. Comments (4).

Judge Phillips is dead

By Dana Rubinstein

John Phillips, the former Civil Court judge whose multi-million–dollar estate was looted by his court-appointed guardians, died on Saturday at his senior-housing facility on Prospect Park West. He was 83. Comments (1).

Your family

Parents win: Education Department agrees not to add charter school to Red Hook’s PS 15

By Mike McLaughlin

Parenting: Falling to an aggressive political assault by parents, teachers and even the widow of a beloved former principal, the Department of Education caved this week, agreeing not to sandwich a charter school into Red Hook’s PS 15. Comments (5).

Being a good mom means being more than just not bad

By Louise Crawford

Smartmom: Britney Spears is guilty of one egregious act of bad mommydom after another, yet we can’t get enough of her. What makes a good mom, anyway? Comment.

Family Calendar

By Susan Rosenthal Jay

Parenting: All the action for you and your kids! Comment.

Other Voices

Scandal! Beep accepts our check, but says auction was a fake!

By Gersh Kuntzman

Brooklyn Angle: Our photo appears to show Borough President Markowitz accepting a ceremonial check for $500 for his Camp Brooklyn charity — but is it really a picture of him stabbing our Editor-of-the-Year in the back? Comment.

Vox Pop

By Ricky Barlin

Vox Pop: New York University’s proposed takeover of Polytechnic University in Downtown Brooklyn appears to be moving ahead. But before the Manhattan-based institution devours one of our own, we asked people on campus what they thought of the NYU-Poly deal. Comments (2).

An artist takes a borough president to task

Letters: Letters this week on Borough President Markowitz’s plan to re-light the Parachute Jump; Rep. Ed Towns’s reputed lameness; Gersh Kuntzman’s broken ankle; new parking meters on Seventh Avenue; and the Toll Brothers’ plan for condos on the Gowanus Canal. Comment.

More news & views

A new G spot?

By Mike McLaughlin

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has promised to study whether it is feasible to connect the G train with the maze of lines at the Atlantic Avenue–Pacific Street subway station at the crossroads of Park Slope, Fort Greene, Boerum Hill and Downtown Brooklyn. Comments (7).

Fire in the hole?

By Dana Rubinstein

Bay Ridge: The Department of Defense will investigate whether live ammunition is still sitting in Gravesend Bay more than 50 years after it was accidentally dumped there — a key win for opponents of a city plan to put a garbage transfer station near the possibly explosive site. Comment.

Celebrate Brooklyn — Heights

By Dana Rubinstein

Downtown: The Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 26, sounds like it’s going to be more of a party than the usual public hearing about a zoning change. Comment.

Civic Calendar

All the important meetings you should be going to. Comment.

Free for all!

In the spirit of encouraging a free exchange of ideas, The Brooklyn Paper makes this space available to our readers. Comments (1).

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