Politics
Inside the IDC’s legally questionable campaign funding account
The state Board of Elections ruled that former state Senate Independent Democratic Conference members must return funds from a committee set up by the Independence Party. Here’s an explainer on what was illegal, whether the IDC will actually pay back the money, and more.
New York State
Politics
Cynthia Nixon’s rookie mistakes
Cynthia Nixon's rookie mistakes. The first-time candidate has made a few gaffes.
New York City
Personality
Eric Adams, election cyclist
Eric Adams rehabbed his block and his body. Is the borough president fit to be New York City’s next mayor?
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Here's the latest of what's going on in youth development
About 380 people from after-school nonprofits and advocacy groups discussed recent trends.
Andrew Cuomo
Politics
Seven years for Silver, Daily News staff slashed, speed cameras stall
In this week's headlines, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced, for a second time, to seven years in prison, Tronc slashed the editorial workforce at the Daily News, and New York City's speed camera program was suspended due to inaction in Albany.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
New York City could be a leader in juvenile justice reform
An upcoming contract between a Missouri nonprofit and New York City could make the difference.
Politics
Cynthia Nixon triggers a reckoning in the Democratic Socialists of America
Since gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon proclaimed herself a democratic socialist and began courting the support of the Democratic Socialists of America, the members of DSA’s New York City branches have remained split on the matter of endorsing her. One issue stands out as a fundamental question of the organization’s role in our political climate: the limits of its involvement in electoral politics.
New York City
Opinion
The Daily News’ destruction shows only right-wing newspapers will be left
The Daily News’ destruction shows only right-wing newspapers will be left. Corporations and billionaires have no use but propaganda for money-losing papers.
Personality
Who's up and who's down this week?
Was anyone a bigger winner than the pizza guy Pablo Villavicencio? Did anyone have a worse week than Marty Golden, Jeff Klein or Jasmine Robinson?
Nonprofits
NYN Media
New York City's formerly incarcerated community will need this database
An effort to bring resources together on one platform started as a project at CUNY.
Politics
Who's on the sticking-with-Crowley bandwagon?
Despite losing his Democratic congressional primary to democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and insisting he is no longer running, Rep. Joseph Crowley has received at least two endorsements in the past two weeks – with both citing Israel as an issue.
Andrew Cuomo
Opinion
New York won’t beat the federal tax law in court, and it shouldn’t
New York is taking the federal government to court over the SALT deduction cap. But New York’s legal reasoning would, if accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court, cripple the federal government’s powers of taxation in ways that would restrict future Democratic congresses as well.
Politics
Voters question petition signatures for Assemblyman Brian Miller
More than a dozen of people whose names submitted on ballot petitions for Assemblyman Brian Miller for the Conservative Party line deny they ever signed it, despite their addresses and supposed signatures appearing on the petitions, with some calling it a “forgery.”
Nonprofits
NYN Media
This is what impact investing is – and how it’s different for nonprofits
One of the central tenets of impact investing is that even a third bottom line matters.
Bill de Blasio
Policy
Why returning NYC’s freight transportation to the waterways won’t work
New York City has initiated a $100 million plan to try to solve the city’s age-old problems with freight transportation. But the city’s attempt to go back to the future by returning shipping to the waterways won’t solve many of the worst freight-traffic problems.
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