If policy reports are your thing, Wednesday was your day: The de Blasio administration released no fewer than three major policy documents over the course of the day. And in other news …
The ‘prohibition of circus performances with wild or exotic animals’ is on the Council calendar. What elected officials, candidates, advocates and others are up to within the five boroughs.
Let’s ask the candidates a series of tough questions, ending with: ‘What is your plan to end the New York City homelessness crisis in years, not decades?’
The putative Republican nominee’s argument is based on the idea that de Blasio is a poor manager who has put the city’s safety and solvency at risk. But so far there aren’t detailed answers when it comes to policy specifics.
The longtime criminal justice reform advocate running to the incumbent mayor’s left is candid about the hurdles his campaign faces but argues progressives have to expect more from their government.
Eight years after his last run for citywide office, there’s a different mayor and a different housing plan, but Avella’s critique is very much the same.
Dspite all this progress made in our state, the majority of current members of New York State’s Senate are actually hostile to reproductive health and rights. And in today’s election, even more seats could flip to anti-reproductive health candidates.
District leader. County and state committee. Alternative delegate to the judicial convention. Those words on our ballots. But what do they mean? An expert panel talks through important Brooklyn legislative races, those down-ballot posts and the ongoing push to make New York’s elections work better.
The candidate HQs are there. The debate is there. But what will shape the outcome of the April 19 primary in Brooklyn, elsewhere in the city and across the state? And what impact will the results have on the national race?
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