The new “Communities Not Cages” coalition is pushing for passage of three new bills that would eliminate mandatory minimum prison sentences in the state and offer incarcerated New Yorkers more…
Brooklyn State Sen. Julia Salazar and Jabari Brisport — who won the democratic primary in June and is likely to secure a State Senate seat in the upcoming general election…
‘If the organizations can continue to bring those two forces together – a lot of ifs to be sure – New York, like Queens if Cabán prevails in the manual…
This year’s update left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, from loft-tenant advocacy groups, to North Brooklyn community groups worried about displacement, to elected officials who say they tried to…
The incoming Senate deputy majority leader and one of the 15 first-time legislators who’ll join the body come January talk about the Democrats’ agenda, the Amazon deal, single-payer healthcare and…
Watch as Nick Rizzo, the Democratic district leader who first approach Julia Salazar about challenging Sen. Martin Dilan, addresses questions that have emerged about her background and assesses the prospects…
Sen. Martin Dilan and challenger Julia Salazar seem to agree on one thing: Their primary contest is about his status as a 16-year veteran of Albany and hers as a…
‘Too often, as we all know too well, Albany is a world unto itself, closed to outsiders, cut off from the public eye, prone to ugly backroom dealing and corrupted…