You get home, flick your lights on, run your air conditioner, charge your phone. As of this month, there’s a chance the electricity you’re using is generated from dams in Quebec, Canada, and arrived at your apartment via a line that snakes more than 330 miles long. A massive transmission line called the Champlain Hudson […]

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Eight years after New York State launched a high-profile task force to confront maternal deaths and racial disparities in childbirth outcomes, state auditors say health officials are only now making “significant” progress implementing reforms — even as Black women continue dying at disproportionately high rates. For Bruce McIntyre, whose longtime partner Amber Isaac died during […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Applications opened Tuesday for the inaugural year of New York City’s free childcare program for 2-year-olds. Part of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s affordability campaign for free universal childcare, 2-K will for the first time in the city’s history offer free care for 2-year-olds […]

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The Executive Office of Immigration Review rolled out so-called “mega master” hearings Monday in New York City immigration court, where a single immigration judge reviewed more than a hundred deportation cases that day.  The new policy — which debuted recently in Illinois and Massachusetts — played out inside the courtroom of Immigration Judge Arya Ranasinghe, […]

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When, a little over 10 years ago, the Mayor Bill de Blasio administration approached East New York City Councilmember Rafael Espinal to win his support for a plan to rezone East New York, many residents of the economically struggling Brooklyn neighborhood feared that a rezoning would lead to gentrification and push them out. Espinal had […]

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