Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
LISTEN: Are the Centrists Riding ‘The Silent Wave’?
While New York City mayor went to DC to kiss the ring, Newark’s mayor got himself arrested trying to visit a newly opened ICE lock-up in his city. Meantime, Andrew Cuomo was docked $600,000 by the Campaign Finance Board on Monday for illegally coordinating with his own super PAC — but still seems to be […]
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Cuomo Penalized $622K in Campaign Funds for ‘Improper Coordination’ with Outside Spending Group
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have to forfeit more than $600,000 in public matching funds, the New York City Campaign Finance Board announced Monday, stating it had found reason to believe his mayoral campaign had inappropriately coordinated with an independent expenditure committee that’s spending millions of dollars to boost his campaign. The preliminary ruling came […]
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The State Is Making New York City Spend $275 Million More for Child Care Vouchers
The state budget approved by legislators last week gives $350 million in additional funding to help New York City continue providing child care vouchers to low-income families — if the city throws in the same amount of its own money. There’s another major caveat buried in the fine print: The state is raising the minimum amount […]
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Voting Begins in Teachers Union Elections As Insurgents Vie to Unseat Mulgrew
With voting underway in the election for United Federation of Teachers leadership, longtime president Michael Mulgrew is facing insurgent challenges at a time when workers broadly have been willing to jettison veteran leaders — most recently 1199 SEIU president George Gresham. Mulgrew and two other candidates are seeking to head the second-largest public-sector union in the […]
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Tough Times for Tchotchke Trade with Trump Tariffs
Tarun Karmaker faces a tough choice: raise prices and lose sales, or leave them the same and make less. Karmaker owns Little Italy Gifts Center on Mulberry Street, and nearly all of his wholesale suppliers have already jacked up prices between 10 and 25%. Even imported Trump bobblehead dolls have gone up 50 cents, to […]
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