This week’s biggest Winners & Losers

Who’s up and who’s down this week?

• January 24, 2020

Fight over marijuana tax revenue ramps up again for budget season

How to spend marijuana money will likely be the most difficult debate during legalization negotiations.

• By Rebecca C. Lewis
• January 23, 2020

2020 Corey Johnson wouldn't take money from 2009 Corey Johnson

The NYC Council speaker and mayoral candidate pledged not to take donations from real estate developers, like his former employers.

• By Jeff Coltin
• January 23, 2020

Byford resigns, a despondent Twitter reacts

The celebrated transit chief officially resigns from the MTA, after quarreling with Gov. Cuomo over the subways turnaround.

• By Annie McDonough
• January 23, 2020

De Blasio wants feds to tackle automation; some say he can start at home

The NYC mayor wants to bring some of his ideas from the presidential campaign trail home.

• By Annie McDonough
• January 23, 2020

NYC oversight of homeless prevention program insufficient, audit finds

• By Kay Dervishi
• January 23, 2020

Cuomo’s proposal to divert Cy Vance’s money for discovery reform

New funding to help district attorneys comply with discovery reforms would come at the expense of the Manhattan district attorney.

• By Zach Williams
• January 23, 2020

“Go back to Iowa” could fit Adams’ mayoral strategy

Progressive transplants have other candidates, so the Brooklyn borough president is looking elsewhere for votes.

• By Jeff Coltin and Ben Adler
• January 23, 2020

What to know about the Sheldon Silver ruling

Why part of the former Assembly speaker’s corruption conviction was overturned Tuesday.

• By Annie McDonough
• January 22, 2020

Long-term care providers targeted in Cuomo’s budget

Human services funding remains largely consistent in the executive budget, though nonprofit nursing home providers may get squeezed.

• By Kay Dervishi
• January 22, 2020

Can Cuomo’s budget co-opt his critics?

Gov. Andrew adopted his critics’ cause on health care, education and bail while building his progressive brand.

• By Zach Williams
• January 22, 2020

Cuomo supports e-bike legalization, gig worker protections

Net neutrality and an investment in Syracuse tech sector also mentioned in the governor’s 2021 budget address.

• By Annie McDonough
• January 22, 2020

Cuomo’s executive budget, by the numbers

The governor expects to close the $6.1 billion deficit without tax hikes.

• By Jeff Coltin
• January 21, 2020

Three questions for Cuomo’s budget address

What the governor says today will affect the political tone for the months ahead.

• By Zach Williams
• January 21, 2020

MTA to enforce bus lane violations on 14th Street

Tickets will be given to vehicles caught driving in the bus lane.

• By Annie McDonough
• January 21, 2020

Rep. Eliot Engel is facing primary opponents critical of his foreign policy

As chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Engel has tried to protect congressional power.

• By Annie McDonough
• January 21, 2020

Julie Menin’s political future

DA or BP? Local leaders, pundits predict where she might go once the census is over.

• By Aaron Short
• January 21, 2020

Will New York go down for the count?

Forget protesting. The best way to foil Trump might just be filling out the census.

• By Kay Dervishi
• January 21, 2020

New York joins lawsuit against Trump administration’s food stamp rule

• By Kay Dervishi
• January 20, 2020

Why New York has such a low rate of gun death

New York’s famously tough gun laws play a role in curbing both homicides and suicides, but there are other factors at play.

• By Lindsay Beyerstein
• January 20, 2020