New York energy regulators gave their blessing last week to the Northeast Supply Enhancement Project, a Trump-backed gas pipeline that would serve New York City and Long Island.

With the approval process now in its 11th hour, opponents are doing everything they can to step up pressure on the governor.

The seven-member Public Service Commission, which oversees the state’s utilities, found that the pipeline is needed to ensure the reliability of the downstate gas system. The ruling does not seal the pipeline’s fate; the commission does not have a formal role in approving the project. That will be up to the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which has promised a decision by the end of November. But the commission’s ruling helps pave the way for a final green light.

Leaders of New York’s corrections oversight agency held their monthly public meeting Wednesday. There was much they could have discussed: The state prisons, local jails, and police lockups they’re tasked with monitoring have experienced a torrent of trouble in recent months.

The state prison system is struggling to recover from a guard strike; a lack of officers has left many incarcerated people confined to their cells for upwards of 20 hours a day. That crisis has led to a backlog in local jails, with some operating dangerously close to capacity. Others are starting to take in more federal immigration detainees, one of whom died in Nassau County’s jail last week. Three people died in a recent two-week span at New York City’s Rikers Island, the ever-embattled jail complex in the process of coming under federal receivership. Prison guards just received yearslong sentences for killing an incarcerated man, and a recent report found that the suicide rate in state facilities doubled last year.

None of those things made it onto the meeting agenda.

Instead, the oversight agency, known as the State Commission of Correction, or SCOC, sprinted through a series of administrative items, rubber stamping jails’ construction plans and requests for exemptions from state regulations. The public portions of the commission’s only recurring public meeting spanned five minutes and four seconds — roughly the time it takes to read to the end of this article.

Sullivan County is asking investors to ​lend ​more than half a billion dollars​ to rescue the struggling Resorts World Catskills​, touting rosy predictions that the casino resort will soon be flooded with visitors and make dramatically more money — even though its own consultants predict the opposite.

Here’s the county’s pitch. Investors would buy up to $585 million in bonds from the county’s newly-formed local development corporation, spun out of its Industrial Development Agency, or IDA. The corporation would buy two hotels, a golf course, and an event venue — almost everything except the casino itself — from the current owner, Empire Resorts, Inc. The cash infusion could enable Empire Resorts to invest in the property and to pay off $300 million in debt due next year, helping it stave off possible bankruptcy.