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Full transcript of Eric Adams campaign kickoff speech, annotated
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
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.
Cuomo seeks to reinvigorate housing segregation in NYC
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
No action on bill that would stop corporations that try to avoid taxes by shirking their American citizenship.
Ignoring a solution to chronic drug shortages
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?
Education underfunding still foundation of New York’s new budget
Lawsuit highlights state's failure to fund K-12 at level agreed necessary in 2007.
Think twice before throwing doctors to the wind
Should nurse practitioners continue to supplant doctors in the provision of primary care, despite the substantial additional training that doctors receive?
Forging a different path
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.
This valley is their valley
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.
The delusions of an American Technopolis
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.