The first lady, who is heavily involved in the multi-faceted effort to improve mental-healthcare in New York, says she has put running for office herself ‘on the list’ of potential next acts.
From high-school intern to novice candidate six years ago to this year’s run for the 22nd district, the Brooklyn attorney has been trying to get a Democrat into Martin Golden’s seat for a long time.
Many of the defining policy storylines of today’s New York are, in one or more ways, on the plate of the Fifth Avenue Committee’s executive director, who is also on the City Planning Commission.
Barkan has written for City Limits. He has written about City Limits. Now we’re writing about him.
Giselle Routhier, policy director at the Coalition for the Homeless, talks about the latest shelter numbers, the highlights and low points of Mayor de Blasio’s record on homelessness and the potentially harmful role the state and feds could soon play.
The former City Councilmember and former de Blasio administration member discuss their efforts to unseat incumbent State Senators who are members of the IDC, whether they’ll refuse anyone’s donations and how realistic it is to argue that Albany will ever give city schools the funding they deserve.
The Brooklyn Councilmember discusses his run for statewide office, his critique of Gov. Cuomo, his record on reproductive rights and marriage equality, and the state of the Council’s progressive caucus.
CUNY Professor John Mollenkopf, a student of New York City mayors since John Lindsay, says the mayor’s state of the city was on target in diagnosing serious shortcomings in local democracy.
It’s an annual rite of mid-winter: The mayor of New York City travels to the state capitol to give his take on the governor’s proposed budget, and state legislators pelt the mayor with questions about whatever is on their minds. Bill de Blasio’s fifth trip to Albany involved some familiar themes and faces, but a slightly different feel.
Immediately after his resounding re-election, de Blasio named education “the issue I put my greatest passion and energy into.” Does that mean a mayor who avoided big controversies over education policy in his first term is gearing up for bigger fights?
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