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Hochul announced the proposal in her State of the State speech Tuesday, a week after the U.S. Justice Department sued six of the country’s biggest landlords for allegedly using “anticompetitive…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 2Comments

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Jan 2025

Government Housing and Homelessness Justice Opinion Transportation

Opinion: Policing, Surveillance, and False Promises of Safety

“Ineffective technology and police violence is only a symptom of a larger problem of politicians claiming that these are what the average citizen needs to feel safe, rather than addressing…

BySadia Saba 1Comment

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Dec 2024

Climate and Environment Education Government Politics Transportation

Gov. Hochul Signs Bills to Ban CO2 Fracking, Make Polluters Pay for Climate Damage

During the final week of 2024, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed several long-awaited environmental bills into law: forcing polluters to pay for climate destruction, expanding the state’s fracking ban to prohibit…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Dec 2024

Climate and Environment Education Government Opinion

Opinion: If Gov. Hochul Cares About Working Parents, She’ll Sign the Climate Change Superfund Act

“Right now, working families like us are footing the bill for the billions in damages caused by these climate disasters, while the fossil fuel companies sowing climate misinformation and poisoning…

ByEliza Clark

ByLiat Olenick

ByAbby Loomis 0Comments

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Jul 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: State’s Creedmoor Proposal Ignores Our Community Plan

“Unlike an unsound, speculative plan by Empire State Development to squeeze an outsize mini-city in the same space to be completed sometime after 2040, our Community Plan delivers new units…

BySuzanne Peritz 2Comments

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Jul 2024

Climate and Environment Government Opinion

Opinion: State Government Must Protect New Yorkers’ Rights Under the Green Amendment

“The state is twisting itself into legal pretzels to deny the Green Amendment’s ability to check government action that may be legally responsible for the violations of the environmental rights…

ByMaya K. van Rossum 1Comment

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Jul 2024

Government Health Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Creedmoor Plan is a Chance for a New Generation to Call Queens Home

“We support the plan’s vision because we see it as a chance to stand up for people just like our parents and grandparents—who struggled bravely to make a life and…

ByWill Spisak

ByRev. Carl Adair 2Comments

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Jul 2024

Climate and Environment Government In Depth Investigations Transportation

What’s at Stake for the Environment in Hochul’s Decision to Halt Congestion Pricing

The MTA says losing the revenue generated from congestion pricing could create a domino effect that impacts a series of climate resiliency projects, like fortifying the subway system from flooding…

ByMariana Simões 5Comments

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Jun 2024

Climate and Environment Government

Will New York’s ‘TREES’ Bill Finally Become Law?

A bill that aims to stop companies that have contracts with the state government from contributing to tropical deforestation failed to become law last year. Will the governor veto it…

ByMariana Simões 0Comments

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Jun 2024

Comunidades de habla hispana Government Housing and Homelessness Immigration

Concejo de la ciudad aprueba proyectos de ley para estudiar necesidades médicas y obstáculos laborales de inmigrantes

“Debemos recoger datos para entender cómo la ciudad ha apoyado las solicitudes para los permisos de trabajo, el espíritu empresarial, los programas de formación laboral y el acceso a la…

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

Hochul Looks to Ban Algorithm-Based Rent Price Fixing in New York

Opinion: Policing, Surveillance, and False Promises of Safety

Gov. Hochul Signs Bills to Ban CO2 Fracking, Make Polluters Pay for Climate Damage

Opinion: If Gov. Hochul Cares About Working Parents, She’ll Sign the Climate Change Superfund Act

Opinion: State’s Creedmoor Proposal Ignores Our Community Plan

Opinion: State Government Must Protect New Yorkers’ Rights Under the Green Amendment

Opinion: Creedmoor Plan is a Chance for a New Generation to Call Queens Home

What’s at Stake for the Environment in Hochul’s Decision to Halt Congestion Pricing

Will New York’s ‘TREES’ Bill Finally Become Law?

Concejo de la ciudad aprueba proyectos de ley para estudiar necesidades médicas y obstáculos laborales de inmigrantes

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