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Mamdani Floats Insurance Fix for Rent-Stabilized Buildings
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday will unveil a city-backed insurance program for subsidized and rent-stabilized buildings across the five boroughs. The privately run, not-yet-launched program — which Mamdani will announce at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council’s annual luncheon in the afternoon — aims to issue property and liability insurance policies for buildings covering 20,000 […]
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What Feud? Council Speaker Backs Mamdani’s Watchdog-in-Chief
City Council Speaker Julie Menin is backing Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s nominee to run the Department of Investigation a day ahead of what some expected to be a close confirmation vote. The speaker’s support for former Brooklyn federal prosecutor Nadia Shihata became crucial after she came under fire at a contentious hearing where Council members questioned […]
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How the New York State Budget Works
This article was published in partnership with New York Focus. Each spring, Albany lawmakers decide how to spend hundreds of billions in public money in the state’s famously opaque budget process. New York’s budget is bigger than those of most countries, and outpaces that of every other state except California. At stake are key questions […]
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Albany Lawmakers Take Up Sweeping Pension Reforms. A Big Winner? Themselves.
Sweeping reforms to New York’s pension system long sought by public sector unions appear likely to be part of the final state budget, with Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins all publicly backing fixes to what is known as Tier 6. A controversial reform approved in 2012, […]
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Ballots Behind Bars: Council Pushes Rikers Island Voting Overhaul
New York City lawmakers are pushing to overhaul how people jailed on Rikers Island cast their votes after just 335 of roughly 6,000 eligible detainees cast absentee ballots in the last general election, officials said Tuesday. Lawmakers want to make it easier for people in custody to request absentee ballots and get information about candidates. […]
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