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Opinion: Fortifying NYC Against Droughts and Floods

“Embracing nature-based solutions, leaning on digital tools to power water management, replacing aging infrastructure, and, importantly, fostering collaboration between city agencies and private partners are essential to tackle these challenges…

Education Opinion

Opinion: Competent Grads Need Emotional Strength, Too

“The skills that help students develop and restore relationships, improve decision-making, solve problems and communicate effectively are social emotional skills. Let’s teach them.”

Government Opinion

Opinion: Why Latinx Mental Health Can’t Wait in New York City

“While nearly 30 percent of New Yorkers identify as Latinx, language barriers, cultural stigma, and the absence of bilingual providers have prevented countless individuals from receiving the help they require.…

Government Housing and Homelessness Justice Opinion

Opinion: Transforming Systems of Harm into Systems of Care for Black Families

“As public defenders working with parents in family court, we write during Black History Month to urge state legislators to pass a slate of legislation that informs, supports, and empowers…

Government Opinion

Opinion: New York Needs to Move Now on Cap-and-Invest

“Our state should be a leader in clean energy creation. Instead, because of government flip-flopping and cowardice, we cannot even stick to a plan of action.”

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion Politics

Opinion: Time for a Shift in NYC’s Affordable Housing Plans?

“A parade of mayors, Democrat and Republican, have also predominantly relied on the private sector over the past 40 years to address the city’s lack of affordable housing. Yet here…

Government Justice Opinion

Opinion: Judges’ Unpublished Decisions Debunk the Myths About Discovery Reform

“Without access to these decisions, lawmakers and the public are left with only anecdotal claims and selective narratives, often driven by the loudest opponents of [discovery] reform. The judicial record,…

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: The Untapped Potential of NYC’s Existing Buildings in the Climate Fight

“While the focus has often been on new construction and cutting-edge green technologies, New York City’s existing buildings hold immense potential for environmental improvement.”

Government Justice Opinion

Opinion: The NYPD’s ShotSpotter Scam

“Lack of transparency alone should have brought a rejection of the NYPD’s contract renewal with ShotSpotter. By renewing, NYPD agreed to open our pocketbooks once again with little in return,…

CLARIFY Government Housing and Homelessness Justice Opinion

Opinion: NYC’s Contracting Crisis is Undermining Justice for All

“If the city fails to act this year, it will send an unmistakable message to public defenders and the New Yorkers they serve that their rights to due process, family…

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