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Cuomo fails to answer questions about his new promises

Three basic inquiries arising out of a campaign-reboot walk-and-talk with Errol Louis on Inside City Hall go unanswered.

Walden really is a true believer in "free markets" -- with a lot of government assistance

Original Reporting | By Craig Gurian

Extended audio interview focuses on housing plans; education, civil rights, and Walden's consolidation-of-the-field scheme also discussed.

Full transcript of Eric Adams campaign kickoff speech, annotated

Original Reporting | By Craig Gurian

Adams tried to claim the mantle of the candidate of the working class, identified first-term achievements, laid down a marker of vowing to protect all religions against hate crimes, and excoriated Mamdani, focusing most on the theme that New York "is not a city of socialism." What he didn't say was important, too.

Hochul's "Pro-Housing Community" program so far falling flat

Original Reporting | By Craig Gurian

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.

“If it can be successfully done 20, 30, 35 years down the road, then I don't see a reason why it couldn't be done and set up from the onset.”

Market-rate condos as an affordable housing tool?

Original Reporting | By Craig Gurian

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.

Cuomo seeks to reinvigorate housing segregation in NYC

Original Reporting | By Craig Gurian

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.

Congress fiddles while Treasury burns

Original Reporting | By T.J. Lewan

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

Corporations Taxes

Ignoring a solution to chronic drug shortages

Original Reporting | By T.J. Lewan

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?

Health care Medicine

Education underfunding still foundation of New York’s new budget

Original Reporting | By David Noriega

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

Education

Think twice before throwing doctors to the wind

Original Reporting | By David Noriega

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

Health care

Forging a different path

Original Reporting | By David Noriega

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.

Alternative models Role of government

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