“People in prison deserve healthcare, and this is healthcare.” Legislators push to offer treatment for drug addiction in jails and prisons
Under New York’s climate law, the Climate Action Council is tasked with devising a plan to zero out emissions. Environmentalists on the Council say it’s not on track.
In a striking sign of activists’ success, most candidates running in the June election for DA say they would not prosecute cases involving consensual sex work.
With the state ethics commission widely seen as controlled by the governor, legislators are looking for other ways to investigate the allegations.
A new analysis finds that the governor’s proposal would “completely undermine” New York City’s climate law, setting the stage for a clash with the newly emboldened legislature.
State withholds have left harm reduction providers undersupplied, and informal overdose prevention networks are struggling to fill the gap.
Amid an ongoing union election at the Queens indigent defense law firm, two outspoken union supporters were fired without warning.
“We sleep together like chickens”: Street homeless New Yorkers describe the struggle to endure the pandemic-era winter.
Three candidates in the June election say they would not join the association of state DAs, which has fought measures such as bail reform.
Amid dramatic spikes in drug overdoses and HIV cases, legislators and public health professionals push for New York to decriminalize sterile syringes.
“The governor’s twisting himself in knots to not offend rich people,” the number two Democrat in the state Senate said.
A leading candidate for Manhattan DA has raked in two thirds of her campaign funds from five-figure donations—many from financial industries she would be in charge of prosecuting.
“I’m the security guard, a mother, a father, a teacher, I’m everything.” Parents and children reflect on a year of remote learning and its impact on their finances, mental health, and family.
A planned transmission line from Canada is meant to reduce NYC’s fossil fuel dependence. But First Nations say the project ignores them.
Democratic leadership appointed David Friedfel, the top state policy analyst at the Citizens Budget Commission, to a key staff position in budget negotiations.
A wave of legal aid attorneys are joining the labor movement. But bosses say it’s bad for business and the unions just want to collect their dues.
The office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor is on the chopping block in Manhattan’s 2021 DA race.
The Senate has proposed raising $4 billion in revenue before the end of the year, but the Assembly is unwilling go much higher than $2 billion, sources say.
Sources both inside and outside the legislature say Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is pushing back against the Senate Democrats’ proposal for a blanket moratorium.
Many upstate cities don’t test old houses for lead poisoning until after children have already tested positive. A new bill would change that.