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The approval will create hundreds of units of both affordable and market rate housing and has sparked debate in progressive circles over how to approach private development.
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The mayor and major city unions plan to press the City Council to clear a path for a privatized Medicare plan for retired city workers.
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Janet DiFiore may have gotten a say in picking her interim successor, boosting a judge who has never once voted against her.
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Janet DiFiore may have gotten a say in picking her interim successor, boosting a judge who has never once voted against her.
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Many judges have ignored a 2016 mandate from New York’s top court that parents must be allowed to present evidence in their defense before they lose custody of their kids.
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The cancellation of a proposed cost-saving health plan after retired city workers sued could drain a special fund City Hall and unions use to pay employee benefits.
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With the plan tied up in court, insurers Elevance Health and Empire BlueCross BlueShield pulled out of a controversial deal to switch retired city workers to privately run health insurance.
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For housing advocates, getting the legislature to expand the right to a court hearing before evictions was one thing. Getting judges to implement it is another.
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Governor Hochul’s pick to replace the resigning Court of Appeals Chief Judge could break up the conservative bloc that controls the court—or entrench it.
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A new four-judge bloc has consistently voted together in its most recent term, impacting criminal defendants, workers and people suing police.
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New York Focus reached four voters listed as signatories who said they never signed. A review of other signatures suggests they might not be the only ones.
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With less than a week left before the primary, two groups boosting moderate Democratic candidates for the state legislature have not submitted disclosures required by campaign finance law.
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“We’re basically being blocked out in the process of even trying to bid on the work,” said one union leader.
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New York elections could soon be more vulnerable to hacks, after lobbyists, the NAACP, and the Assembly elections committee chair teamed up to kill an election security bill.
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Hundreds of thousands of city workers and their dependents could have their healthcare shifted to a cheaper plan by 2024, documents show.
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After New York Focus revealed that Hochul had failed to disclose the individuals behind corporate donations to her campaign, she provided that information for recent donors — revealing major support from a nursing home industry powerhouse.
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The comptroller sounded the alarm that the budget includes $18 billion in “unnecessarily opaque” spending, most of it under Hochul’s control.
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A bill to increase kidney donation rates is stuck in the “traffic jam” of the Assembly.
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After New York Focus reported that the elections board wasn’t enforcing a landmark transparency law, it sent delinquent donors a letter requesting that they comply. Thousands did within weeks.
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The state legislature has passed a measure intended to counter a court ruling that made it easier for lenders to win cases against homeowners.