Budget
Next 100 Days: In the Era of Trump, NYS is Out of Step and In the Crosshairs
Adam Wisnieski |
New York City’s values have perhaps never been further from the national agenda being pushed by President Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress.
Government
Next 100 Days: Worry Trump Will Stymie NY’s Fledgling Medical Marijuana Industry
Adam Wisnieski |
New York has been among the most timid states when it comes to creating a legal way for sick people to get pot for therapeutic purposes. Investors doubtful about the state’s prospects might become more so now that the feds are cultivating a crackdown.
Government
Next 100 Days: NY Pols Pressed to Go Beyond Rhetoric in Resisting Trump
Adam Wisnieski |
There are ways to oppose the administration’s policies besides speeches and symbols. But are city and state leaders willing to pull those levers of local power?
Affordable Housing
NYC’s Public Housing was Turning a Corner. Then Came Donald Trump.
Adam Wisnieski |
Gains made in recent years are threatened under the budget cuts, but they are not the only potential casualty. Rule changes at HUD may increase rents for one-in-20 New Yorkers.
Government
How Trump’s Crime Crackdown Could Affect Defendants in NYC
Adam Wisnieski |
Some defendants as recently as three weeks ago accepted plea offers that may not exist under the new directive from Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
bottle beach
Next 100 Days: How Park Service Cuts Will Hurt NYC’s Most Neglected Beach
Adam Wisnieski |
When most New Yorkers hear about cuts to the National Parks Service, they think about Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon, not the wetlands around Cross Bay Boulevard on the way to the Rockaways or the beach on top of a landfill behind the tollbooths on the Marine Park Bridge.
Brooklyn
Next 100 Days: Proposed Cuts Pit President Trump Against Youth of Cypress Hills
Adam Wisnieski |
If you want to understand the likely impact of the president’s proposed cuts to federal programs, you need look no farther than a Brooklyn neighborhood where those initiatives make a daily difference.
Budget
Next100: Cleaning Up the City’s Most Radioactive Block Threatened by Trump’s EPA Cuts
Adam Wisnieski |
Wolff-Alport is one of three federally designated Superfund sites in New York City, but unlike the other two, the EPA has yet to find a responsible party who can pay for this cleanup.
Next 100 Days: State Drops Prisoner Medical Move Because of Trump Rhetoric
Adam Wisnieski |
Getting prisoners on Medicaid 30 days prior to release would have been a game changer for re-entry services with national implications.
Security Guards
New York’s Security-Guard Training Requirements Routinely Flouted
Adam Wisnieski and Jonathan Gomez |
Becoming a licensed security guard in New York State isn’t very difficult. Yet the “diploma mill,” where schools hand out certificates for a price, as well as schools that don’t make guards stay for an entire day, is still a problem.
