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?
Will building up the city’s barge ports it really get big trucks off the interstates? Will it do so without putting more diesel trucks on Brooklyn streets?
New York City certainly knows how much it owes to municipal bondholders—about $37 billion—for lending it the money to build bridges, schools and other important stuff. But it doesn’t know who holds all those IOUs.
‘We are a licensed commuter van service and you’re trying to tell us you’re going to shut us out of the city?’ one driver complains. ‘They’re leaving the room for Uber, Lyft, Ford Chariot.’
Even having missed a train, this reporter arrived at her imaginary high-tech workplace by 8:35 or so. Granted, City Limits was just one imaginary worker – our 24,999 or more Amazon colleagues were not in the equation.
Soup kitchens and pantries will get surplus food the feds bought to help farmers hurt by the presidents tariffs. But other federal food policies, like cuts to SNAP, continue to hurt the hungry.
Some East Harlem residents are less optimistic about the prospect of the new stations, and are particularly concerned about the potential disruption caused by their construction, which is estimated to take about nine years.
Earlier this year, Seattle’s nine-member City Council voted unanimously to tax Amazon to help fund a response to the city’s housing crisis. Then, it voted 7-2 to repeal it. What changed so many minds?
Mayor de Blasio says generous subsidies and a short-cut public process are justified because New York needs the tax dollars Amazon will bring. But there’s a lot more to the balance sheet than that.
The House is considering tinkering with how the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program calculates benefits.