Max & Murphy: Rookie Sen. Biaggi on Early Progress, Looming Tests for Albany Dems
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Will a looming budget crunch slow down the Empire State’s progressive wave?
GOVERNMENT
Get Your Public Advocate Special Election Voters’ Guide!
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Do your homework on the 16 candidates running in the February 26 election to be the No. 2 citywide official.
Ben Carson
NYCHA Residents Cheer Decision on Monitor, Wait to Learn if They’ll Have a Real Voice
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‘We cannot relax. We don’t know what this federal monitor is going to do.’
Agenda 2019
Max & Murphy: Benjamin Yee and Jared Rich Offer Distinct ‘Outsider’ Choices for Public Advocate
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There’s ‘outside’ as in out the parking lot, and then there’s ‘outside’ like outside in the woods next to the highway.
Homepage Featured
Advocates Press Albany to Fix New York’s Parole System
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The Parole Board is missing commissioners and staff, most parole applications get shot down and hundreds who have served long sentences have no hope of getting out.
Agenda 2019
Max & Murphy: Nomiki Konst Wants to Change the Role of NYC’s Public Advocate
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Job No. 1, the journalist and activist says, would be to take the public advocate out of the mayoral line of succession.
Agenda 2019
Max & Murphy: As Public Advocate, Ron Kim Would Lead Aggressive Assault on Student Debt
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The Queens Assemblymember would ask Washington to forgive student debt, or transfer it to cities and states to administer. Barring that, he’d move to seize it using eminent domain.
community engagement
Who’s Advising the City on its New Jails Plan?
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There’s a Neighborhood Advisory Council in each of the four boroughs where the de Blasio administration plans to build a new jail facility to facilitate the closing of Rikers Island. Here’s what we know about their membership.
amazon
NY’s Leaders Pledged to Support ‘Innovation’ to Get Amazon Here. What Exactly Does That Mean?
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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?
Agenda 2019
Max & Murphy: Smalls Brings White House Experience to Public Advocate Race
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Smalls says she’d focus on transit, housing and voting reform if she prevails in the February 26 special election for public advocate.