The mayor and governor have promised to make New York’s policy environment as friendly as they can for the corporate giant. What do the company’s lobbying disclosures say about its agenda?
‘Nothing sends a bigger signal that the city is cravenly committed to a system of mass incarceration than the construction of giant new jails in the city’s thriving neighborhoods.’
The judge—who seemed to signal solidarity with the jogger’s family, is related to two assistant DAs and sided with the prosecution on key rulings in the Chanel Lewis trial—has had at least 42 cases reversed or modified by the appellate division since 2004.
More than a dozen contenders participated in the debate, hosted by the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund at Brooklyn Law School.
‘When Congress is unable or unwilling to propose a needed amendment, the people have the option of a convention, where through the states we can propose an amendment to our U.S. Constitution.’
Smalls says she’d focus on transit, housing and voting reform if she prevails in the February 26 special election for public advocate.
The veteran lawmaker says the HQ2 deal presents precisely the kind of issue where a public advocate’s voice can be critical. And he argues that he’s been clearer on that issue than others in the race.
Now in his third term in the Assembly, the former Obama campaign official hopes to continue a rapid rise with a victory on February 26.
Year nine of the Andrew Cuomo era begins in Albany.
The de Blasio administration defended its housing lottery system against claims of opacity and unfairness.
Are rent regulated apartments occupied primarily by the wealthy? Do rent regulated tenants hoard their homes?
‘What good is two weeks off from work, when many of us are one paycheck away from devastation because rents are skyrocketing thanks to the mayor’s development agenda?’
Not only will limited liability companies be treated as corporations rather then people, and be subject to lower contribution limits, their ownership will be much more transparent.
‘Environmental organizations in America have mostly tried to color within the lines, lines that the establishment has drawn. However, a new movement, though it rejects violence as a tactic, also does not play nice.’
Proponents wonder why an environmental impact study that explores so many facets of a neighborhood—its workforce, open space, traffic, housing market and even shadows—cannot also look at racial impacts.
The names of the city’s real builders, who labor for decades in the toughest neighborhoods, are nowhere. Their accomplishments, everywhere. One of the greatest of these, Luis Garden Acosta, died last week at the age of 73.