Opinion
Opinion: It’s time for New York to lead by example and decarbonize state facilities
Such an effort should start with this year’s state budget and focus on getting 15 of the top polluting facilities shovel-ready by 2025.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Nonprofit to incorporate green strategies in affordable housing efforts
Local Initiatives Support Corporation is setting out to combat climate change
Budget
Personality
Here’s when City & State readers think the budget will be finished
And don’t forget, the best guess will win a CSNY shower curtain!
Politics
Politics
NY bills specifically targeted at Donald Trump
State Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal has been prolific in this field.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Construction career day draws hundreds of Hudson Valley students
Students from the Lower Hudson Valley participated in skill-building activities and met with labor professionals to learn about career opportunities in construction.
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s note: Today’s New York City isn’t the hell I knew 50 years ago
Rhetoric would have you think it was falling back on hard times.
Policy
Policy
NYC Council calls for restoring budget cuts, with additional funds for housing, libraries and more
There’s more juice to squeeze out of the city budget, City Council says in preliminary budget response.
Politics
Politics
The confusing names behind New York lobbying efforts
What they actually do might be different from what it sounds like they do.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Construction career day draws hundreds of Hudson Valley students
Students from the Lower Hudson Valley participated in skill-building activities and met with labor professionals to learn about career opportunities in construction.
Politics
Politics
Hochul announces April 10 budget extender
As they continue negotiating beyond the April 1 deadline, lawmakers have indicated there will be no agreement before the Passover and Easter holidays.
Editor's Note
Personality
Editor’s note: City & State wins nine awards at the New York Press Association’s 2022 Better Newspaper Contest
The honors were handed out in Albany this past weekend.
Personality
Personality
New York City is obsessed with the bad old days
The fear of going backward is growing, but the city is in a much better place today.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Identifying and confronting LGBTQ hate
Beverly Tillery, executive director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project, discusses findings from a new report on anti-LGBTQ incidents reported by the organization’s affiliates nationwide.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Why New York deserves a reproductive healthcare services training and education grant program
Including $6 to 8 million in the final state budget for such an effort will ensure that medical interns and residents are properly trained in medical and surgical abortion procedures.
Heard Around Town
Politics
Activists went full throttle in the Capitol’s War Room this week
Arrests, profanity, furniture removal. The War Room has seen it all.
Personality
Personality
Guess when New York will have a budget for some sweet City & State swag
We’ve got a coveted City & State NY shower curtain for the lucky person who guesses the date and time the spending plan is passed.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: We need a $21.25 minimum wage
Hochul’s proposal isn’t enough, a UPS package handler argues, the Raise the Wage Act is better.
Politics
Politics
Reynoso appoints Kim Council as deputy Brooklyn borough president
His former opponent in the BP race brings balance to the office after Diana Richardson was ousted.
Politics
Politics
As New York lawmakers decide how to spend billions, they make time for fundraising
At least 21 state lawmakers held fundraisers during budget season, and government watchdogs are predictably puke emoji about it.
Heard Around Town
Personality