Local regulations haven’t kept up with the rollout of new surveillance tech. Some reformers see Washington as their best hope.
Guidelines limiting gifts of taxpayer resources have “no teeth whatsoever,” according to good government watchdog.
As real estate developers resist wage guarantees and try to roll back tenants’ rights, a potential budget deal is at an impasse.
The Assembly and Senate want to beef up labor standards and farmland protections for clean energy projects. Developers say that would slow down the energy transition.
One in five kids in New York live in poverty. Legislators are pushing Hochul to fulfill her promise to cut that rate in half.
Hochul’s proposed Medicaid cuts include $125 million from Health Homes, a program that connects the neediest New Yorkers with medical care, food assistance, and more.
Previously unreleased disciplinary files expose officers who beat, slap, and pepper spray the residents they’re supposed to protect. Most are back at work within a month.
New York has one of the weakest consumer protection laws in the country. This year’s state budget may change that.
New York’s transparency watchdog found that the ethics commission violated open records law by redacting its own recusal forms.
Low-wage manual laborers can sue to make their bosses pay them weekly. Hochul’s late-breaking budget addition may undermine that right.
A version of good cause eviction and new hate crimes are in; new taxes on the wealthy and education cuts are out. Here’s where things landed in this year’s budget.
The Assembly rejected legislation that would have sped up New York’s transition away from gas.
It’s the first step New York has taken to address its housing shortage in years — but tenant groups are fuming and real estate wants more.
After DA Sandra Doorley berated a police officer, Hochul referred her to a commission that is yet to become active — and lacks the authority to issue discipline.
While New York City’s public campaign finance system endures scandals, the state won’t audit the majority of campaigns.
The mayor and the police blamed “outside agitators” for campus protests. Student journalists reported what they saw.
New York Focus was on the scene as cops shoved, kettled, and chased students at City College, the second campus where the NYPD razed a Gaza solidarity encampment Tuesday.
New York’s Equal Rights Amendment would enshrine the right to abortion in the state. A judge threw it off the ballot for the fall, but an appeal is expected.
The journalists said the arrests interfered with their ability to document the police raid at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
The small Catholic university banned Students for Justice in Palestine in 2016. Amid protests and crackdowns, the move has become increasingly popular.