The county is ready to restart real estate subsidies after a two-year pause. Residents fear it won’t fix their housing crisis.
Hochul’s budget would level off funding for addiction treatment — and use opioid settlement funds to fill the gaps.
Migrants from Mauritania and Senegal were the most likely to receive eviction notices, but not the most populous groups in shelters, a New York Focus analysis found.
A new bill to municipalize Long Island’s utility includes key worker protections that the union had sought.
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While the nonprofit Greater New York Hospital Association lobbied, a lucrative for-profit arm may have run up costs for hospitals.
The former budget director’s role may break a law meant to keep ex-state employees from monetizing insider knowledge.
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While Heastie privately pledged to avoid meetings with relevant interests, lobbyist Rebecca Lamorte has sought to keep representing them before the Assembly, according to her employer’s attorney.
Referencing a New York Focus story, Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas introduced legislation to prevent public agencies from naming the medically discredited condition in their reports.
New York legislators have a plan to claim billions in federal funding for health care, driving a fight between industry groups.
Stark disparities in access to life-saving medication for opioid addiction persist between facilities — and racial groups.
As the relationship was coming to light, Heastie returned $5,000 in campaign cash to a labor group from which he’d recused himself.
Backing primary opponents to progressive Democrats, the new Solidarity PAC resembles a state-level analog to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
As the state legislature considers a bill to change warranty payments, unions join their bosses to make car companies pay more.
State investigators accused the gas utility of “sloppiness” in managing customer funds, but took a light touch in enforcement.