Growing tired of the inertia in collective bargaining talks between Cablevision and the company’s Brooklyn employees, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer stood with workers outside of Madison Square Garden to demand that Cablevision negotiate in good faith and reinstate a group of workers who were dismissed a week ago. Last week,  Quinn and de Blasio–both Democratic candidates for mayor–ventured deep into Brooklyn to stand with 23 Brooklyn Cablevision workers… [More]

Despite the claims of partisans on both sides, there is little the federal government can do to quickly turn around the economy—but eventually it will recover. Generating confidence is tricky and unpredictable, but businesses will invest and hire once they believe customers are ready and able to buy what they are selling. The question for New York is: How can the state position itself to take advantage of that national recovery when it comes? Over 1.5 million New Yorkers fled… [More]