It’s been one month since New Yorkers were lining up at the polls on an uncertain Election Day. Since the results came in, our reporters have been processing and analyzing what Donald Trump’s second term will mean for New York.
We have so many questions in anticipation of 2025, and I’m sure you do too. Questions like — what happens to New York’s progress on climate if he reverses plans for building wind turbines off the coast of Long Island? What should schools anticipate if Trump cuts federal education funding, or deports students who just arrived? Will our state and local leaders intervene when they can on Trump’s plans for mass deportations — or will law enforcement help facilitate ICE operations? And how was it that Trump surged in his home state of New York?
I’ll be thinking about how local news, with fewer outlets and journalists on the ground since Trump’s first term, will meet the occasion of a second. And how New York Focus, as the only statewide nonprofit outlet, can help. Here are some of the pieces we’ve published these last few weeks that can help us understand what to anticipate.
What questions do you have?
-Alex Arriaga, audience engagement editor