The New York state prison system has been running on fumes since its corrections officers walked off the job in February. The three-week wildcat strike ended with the prison agency firing some 15 percent of its guards, while other officers resigned or retired early, grinding prison operations to a halt. Despite a thousands-strong National Guard force deployed to assist remaining staff, facilities have canceled or cut back on programming and recreation, stripping incarcerated people of educational and work opportunities and leaving many lingering — and baking — in their cells and dorms for upwards of 20 hours a day.

Over the past week, more than a dozen business interests have joined National Grid in backing the Northeast Supply Enhancement project, or NESE, a controversial pipeline championed by President Donald Trump that would carry gas underwater from New Jersey into New York City and Long Island. The groups, mostly based on Long Island, have submitted letters to the state utility regulator with similar — and sometimes identical — language in support of the pipeline.

A Bronx charity that failed to distribute hundreds of thousands of dollars that it raised for fire victims received $300,000 in new government grants this spring, records show.

We’ve been keeping a close eye on this particular organization, the Bronx Community Foundation. In January, we reported that it had failed to spend nearly $400,000 it received for the victims of the devastating Twin Parks apartment fire, which killed 17 Bronxites in 2022. For three years in a row, it spent more on consultants and overhead than on charitable giving.