Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo’s death on January 1 somewhat tempered the exuberance that the beginning of any new year brings – the length and intensity of his political career rendering him a modern-day political icon, or nemesis, depending on one’s ideology. Cuomo was an unapologetic liberal in an age of conservatism. On the […] The post Dean Alfange: Mario Cuomo’s Greek-American Liberal Forefather appeared first on The National Herald.