Ben and Jarrett talk to Democratic State Sens. Liz Krueger and Zellnor Myrie about the landmark 2019 session. But first, they break down the previous day’s Queens district attorney primary and Bill de Blasio’s debut on the presidential debate stage.
Transit advocates hope to see the LIRR model of in-city dicounts expanded to other outer borough areas, including those served by Metro-North.
Overall, the budget for the Department for The Aging will grow 13 percent in 2020 from the previous year, reaching $411 million.
The 2019 Democratic primary for Queens district attorney is anything but drowsy, because it embodies the yawning gap between yesterday’s mainstream thinking on criminal justice and today’s.
In a dramatic reversal, the Charter Revision Commission approved a proposal to allow the CCRB to go after cops who make false statements during investigations of police misconduct. But it rejected comprehensive planning.
Has the time come for a 20-year-old idea to give outer-borough residents a path to work or home that doesn’t involve a subway through Manhattan?
The city’s Charter Revision Commission meets Tuesday to consider another batch of potential questions for the November ballot—including a measure related to how the city does its land-use planning.
The beep weighed in on the beef between two of his likely 2021 rivals and also talked about borough jails, NYCHA develpment and the Queens DA’s race. Plus, a look at end-of-session politics in Albany.
Forcing cops to attend hearings? Letting victims be part of the process? Reforming the law itself? We asked experts and advocates to weigh in on how to fix flaws in the city’s ‘failure to yield’ law exposed by a City Limits investigation.
A majority of summonses issued under the city’s ‘failure to yield’ law end up getting dismissed after hearings, a City Limits investigation found, and victims rarely learn the outcome of those cases.