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Due to Hurricane Sandy, sixty polling sites across New York City have been changed.  Gothamist has the full list.  If your neighborhood suffered any significant damage from the storm or if you remain without power at home, you should probably check the list.

“So here was the mayor of New York giving a quarter of a million dollars, coming down to Maryland discussing the matter. While he’s here somebody whispers in the ear, you better go back home and protect your stock because God is sending judgment. The thing came through the area. You have to understand the season and the time. It’s …

Today’s service advisory from the Port Authority: Due to widespread flooding in the PATH tunnels and multiple stations, as well as power outages that have shut down signals and switches, PATH rail service continues to be suspended. PATH engineers, staff and third party contractors are working around-the-clock with the goal of resuming partial service between New Jersey and New York …

And once again, how gay is Father Arnold?

Stay out of the comments if you’ve not yet seen last night’s episode. Otherwise dive in and dish.

After yesterday’s post about the destruction of Ali Forney’s drop-in center, some of you wrote asking for a PayPal donation address rather than use your credit cards.  That PayPal account now exists.  AFC executive director Carl Siciliano and his staff send the JMG community their heartfelt thanks for all of your concern and assistance.  (As do I!)  For traditional credit …

In what is perhaps the most repulsive ad we’ve yet seen from the Republican Party, the Florida GOP is going after a local candidate by claiming that her support for a teachers union is akin to supporting pedophilia. Josh Israel reports at Think Progress: The mailings attack Karen Castor Dentel, an elementary school teacher in Maitland, Florida, and the Democratic …

“Four years ago, the Daily News endorsed Obama, seeing a historic figure whose intelligence, political skills and empathy with common folk positioned him to build on the small practical experience he would bring to the world’s toughest job. We valued Obama’s pledge to govern with bold pragmatism and bipartisanship. The hopes of those days went unfulfilled. Achingly slow job creation …

The red-caped Catholic loons of Tradition, Family & Property, who have staged numerous “attacks” against them, are claiming that their hidden camera caught “homofascists and supporters” as they destroyed anti-gay marriage signs that TFP placed outside a college bookstore in Portland, Maine.

Joining the popular Dummies line of how-to books next month will be a title aimed at same-sex couples looking to negotiate the often complicated legalities of protecting their relationship and property.  Via press release: Rainbow Law is pleased to announce that their new book – the Same-Sex Legal Kit for Dummies – is now available for pre-order through Amazon.com and …

“If [polls claim that] the country supports same-sex marriage, and you’ve got the red states and the blue states evening each other out, and we’re still winning in the deep blue states, there’s something wrong with the polling saying that we nationally support same-sex marriage. It’s just statistically impossible. This makes clear that the people of this country know that …

Instead of taking part in the now-canceled Marathon, today some gay runners and their supporters will pub crawl for hurricane relief in Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, and the West Village. Beneficiaries will be the American Red Cross, the Ali Forney Center, and New York Care. More details are here and on the event’s Facebook page.

Details. (Tipped by JMG reader Robert)

A terrible message from Carl Siciliano: Dear Friends,  Yesterday we were finally able to inspect our drop-in center in Chelsea, half a block from the Hudson River. Our worst fears were realized; everything was destroyed and the space is uninhabitable. The water level went four feet high, destroying our phones, computers, refrigerator, food and supplies. This is a terrible tragedy …