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We tend to get our presidential candidates fully grown and painted in the broadest strokes. But when we examine a politician we have seen for years in granular detail, it requires us to decide what we think it takes to run for president.
At midnight on January 1, a ball dropped in Manhattan, former Public Advocate Letitia James became the state attorney general, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson became the acting public advocate, and a race to fill James’ seat that had been stewing for months came to a boil.
Jessica Ramos will be one of 15 rookie State Senators joining a 40-member Democratic majority in charge of the upper house of the state legislature for the first time in a decade.
What were the truly transformative stories of 2018, and why did they matter? What are the stories really worth watching in 2019? Ben Max and Jarrett Murphy give their two cents.
The comptroller said he didn’t want to be a ‘rubber stamp’ for the legislature.
The Senate sponsor of the New York Health Act and a critic from a conservative think tank size break down the rationale for the bill and the risks it faces.
Advocates have a long wish list for changes to campaign rules and voting practices that, they say, are more than the sum of their parts.
A top homelessness policy advocate and the city’s chief affordable-housing development official discuss the pros and cons of the de Blasio housing plan.
A decade after it died without a vote in Albany, congestion pricing is likely to become reality in New York City in 2019. It will be both a milestone and a first step.
The leader of Senate Democrats, who will enjoy a solid majority come January, says she has avoided getting into specifics about what the conference will accomplish in its first months in power.