The Key to the 2022 Midterms Is in My Backyard

When Amazon announced in the fall of 2017 that it was opening a $100 million, 855k-square-foot warehouse on Staten Island, New York’s fifth and most suburban borough, I will admit I cringed. Did it mean jobs? Yes. Did it breathe new life into re-development efforts for Staten Island’s west shore, a section of swampy expanse that has long needed commerce and economic activity? Yes. But as a native of the…