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A large percentage of municipalities in Westchester and Nassau Counties — two of the beating hearts of exclusionary zoning in the New York City metropolitan area — are saying in effect, “No, thank you, we like our exclusion just the way we have it.” The lack of progress is especially apparent in municipalities with the lowest percentages of non-Hispanic Black residents.

Legislation recently enacted by New York State as part of its budget process directly offers the prospect of preserving several thousand affordable housing units at risk for losing their tenant protections, and indirectly raises the question of why an obvious set of tools aren’t being used to change the day-to-day reality of luxury condominium buildings being developed with zero percent affordable units included.

Wants re-expansion of segregation-perpetuating outsider-restriction policy in affordable-housing lotteries after nine-year battle limited it. Panders to neo-segregationists despite knowing that court order has already ruled out changed based on his rationales.

No action on bill that would stop corporations that try to avoid taxes by shirking their American citizenship.

Market-based solutions have failed to work. Yet having the government manufacture some of the drugs remains the option that no one considers. Why not?

Lawsuit highlights state's failure to fund K-12 at level agreed necessary in 2007.

Should nurse practitioners continue to supplant doctors in the provision of primary care, despite the substantial additional training that doctors receive?

San Jose’s problems can be solved, but only if structural causes are addressed, including inequities in Silicon Valley, a nationwide tax incentive competition, and California’s restrictions on local revenue.

Decades of inequitable development and intra-regional competition have created a deeply divided Silicon Valley, one where the city of San Jose bears most of the burden.

San Jose's 30-year quest to be an "entrepreneurial city." A single-minded focus on corporate-based redevelopment never paid off for the city's residents.