To answer that, one has to decide what it means to be a progressive mayor and how well the current one has matched that description in both intention and delivery. Watch a video of NYC reporters wrestling with those questions.
The latest edition of the Brooklyn Independent Media reporters’ roundtable show features two veteran journalists who spent the past year getting used to Mayor de Blasio.
The mayor lauds the borough’s “progressive values,” but the buzzword’s application to Bronx politics is uneven at best—a fact that may complicate the mayor’s ability to execute his agenda.
As a new team prepares to take over the NYC Mayor’s Office of Operations, a former staffer there offers some words of advice.
The progressives who lifted Melissa Mark-Viverito into the speaker’s chair have called for reforms to reduce the speaker’s authority. What will that mean for the de Blasio agenda?
On Sunday Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio named a black man to be his corporation counsel. Will that quell concerns about the diversity of the incoming administration?
Cities and states that want to diversify their contractor pool have to prove that genuine disparities exist. Part of our series on New York’s M/WBE initiative.
As local law enforcement follows the feds’ lead in going after city contractors that fake working with minority- and women-owned firms, the future of the MWBE program is in a new mayor’s hands. Part III of our series.
In the city’s effort to diversify city contracting, the administration is limited by procurement rules, MWBE firms by their small size and the law itself by the fuzzy process behind the goals it’s set. Part II in our series.
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