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Enter your address. See you ballot. Do your duty.
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'If you just look at the data, we're good,' says one expert. 'But if you look at the actual breakout of the teacher turnover rate, it is significantly higher in communities of color.'
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The City Council passed a set of bills intended to at least partly address the problems of maternal morbidity and mortality, which, like so many health issues, disproportionately affect low-income women of color.
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The candidates for governor might never have a debate. But that won't stop readers from telling us the questions they want to hear answered.
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As elected officials, community advocates and residents raised questions about the lack of ULURP for the proposed towers, Community Planning Commission members voiced doubts about the accuracy of the city's environmental reviews.
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A top Democratic strategist says the map and the mood favor that party's bid to take over the state Senate. A veteran GOP operative says if his party loses their lone locus of power, it will be time to 'clean house.'
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The candidates clashed on immigration, opioids, the president and their campaign fundraising.
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There's disagreement on how to measure chronic teacher absenteeism, and the causes of it are more complicated than you might assume. But there's no denying big disparities in absentee rates—even among schools in the same district.
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City Comptroller Scott Stringer wants the MTA to lower the cost of LIRR and Metro-North rides within New York City to $2.75, saying current fares are prohibitively expensive for city rides.
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With one charter-revision vote this fall and another process just beginning, an effort is underway to get city students to be a force for change.
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We spoke to residents of Staten Island—site of one of the fall's most closely watched Congressional races—about their borough's most pressing issues and whether they intend to swing blue or red this November.
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Opposition to the towers is vocal, and the oppositions' strategies are varied: Some want to force a land-use review via legislation, while others are threatening a lawsuit.
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Across the city, state and nation, students deal with missing teachers every day. It's a multifaceted problem whose impact on school performance is often overlooked in the debates about education policy.
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The Block Watcher program was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. The program was revived in 2013 across several neighborhoods, including Bed-Stuy and Astoria, and then halted again in recent years.
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The hosts of Max & Murphy talk to Weekend Edition about the electoral landscape as November 6 approaches.
