Why fight City Hall when you can be in it? In next November’s City Council election, it will be hard to find a ballot that doesn’t include a high-profile activist–or…
In New York state, Dems have no lock on union cash–labor groups have given 25 times as much cash to Republican heavyweight state Senator Guy Vellela as they have to…
Despite a few feeble “nays,” the vote at the state’s AFL-CIO convention was a typical landslide of endorsements for a politically expedient slate of Republicans.
In California, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals is taking on some of the toughest policies about drug use and public housing evictions–and New York lawyers are hoping a…
With a media-ready case against the city’s child welfare system, Marcia Robinson Lowry steps up to defend children who never should have been taken into foster care.
A legal loophole is letting units in one Harlem co-op be sold out from beneath longtime residents who can’t afford to swing with the booming housing market.
