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City Limits and Gotham Gazette put aside their long and sometimes violent rivalry to discuss Mayor de Blasio’s relationship with the press, money in the 2017 campaign, and the upcoming weeklong City Hall in the Bronx.
The mayor wants to get his message out. The press wants to get their questions answered. The solution is simple.
Why does a system where charges are based on property values charge more to someone whose property is valued less?
The prosecutors have spoken, and the court of public opinion will render its decision in under eight months’ time. Yet neither one is really equipped to answer the deeper question of whether what de Blasio did was right.
Bill de Blasio has added significantly to New York’s decades-old effort to protect the undocumented. But when it comes to fully resisting Trump’s aggro enforcement policy, the city’s political will and legal authority are limited.
The mayor has rejected criticism and coverage of his preliminary budget as “disingenuous” and “inaccurate.” When Mike Bloomberg was mayor, Councilman Bill de Blasio often found fault in the budget outline.
The plan commits the administration to the goal of reducing the shelter population by 2,500 over the next five years. As of Monday, there were 59,997 people in New York City shelters.
The state of the city focused on the same problem de Blasio ran to fix: the affordability crisis. Having spent three years working on the housing side of that issue, the mayor now wants to focus on its income dimension.
If the past two months are any indication, Bill de Blasio will run for re-election against Donald Trump–as well as on his own record of policy accomplishment and management successes.
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