Policy

What is driving New York’s health care costs?

Hospital costs, drug prices and societal norms are driving New York’s health care costs.

Nonprofits

NYN Media

The latest from Food Bank for New York City ... Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ... and more

Today's buzz has news from the Bottomless Closet, Food Bank for New York City and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Nonprofits

NYN Media

It's time to meet millennials where they give

In 2017, online giving reached over $20 billion and 37 percent of all millennial donors used their mobile device to give a gift online.

Personality

Who's up and who's down this week?

The biggest Winners & Losers from the week of April 20, 2018.

Energy & Environment

Policy

Can New York keep climate change at bay?

A discussion on sustainability with New York City and state's leading environmental officials.

New York City

Policy

When environmental protection becomes personal

An interview with New York City Council Committee Chairman Costa Constantinides

Education

Opinion

A 3-point plan to increase diversity in NYC’s specialized high schools

Black and Latino students are badly underrepresented at top schools, but new bills in Albany aim to change that.

New York City

Opinion

Dan Donovan’s brilliant press release

Rep. Dan Donovan’s airtight logic: Michael Grimm is a felon, so he must love Andrew Cuomo and hate Donald Trump

Energy & Environment

Policy

How can Cuomo hit his environmental goals?

An interview with energy czar Richard Kauffman and DEC chief Basil Seggos on how Andrew Cuomo can hit his environmental goals.

MTA

Policy

New York’s 4 biggest environmental threats

New York’s biggest environmental threats: How the state is addressing them and where it’s falling short.

New York City

Policy

Kicking the bag down the road

Billions of plastic bags clog sewage plants, pollute waterways and cling to trees and lampposts in New York City. And Albany won’t let the city stop it.

Politics

Andrew Cuomo

Felder: Cuomo hasn’t talked to me about reuniting the Senate since 2017

State Sen. Simcha Felder refutes a report that Gov. Andrew Cuomo called him.

Politics

Labor

Which unions are in and out of the WFP?

Which unions are in and out of the WFP? Assessing the fallout of the tussle over endorsing Cynthia Nixon for governor.

Andrew Cuomo

Policy

How fishermen could thwart Cuomo’s offshore wind master plan

Offshore wind turbines are a critical part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's clean energy mandate to generate 50 percent of the state’s electricity from renewable energy. But a few humble fishermen are threatening to derail the governor’s goals with a federal lawsuit they believe is their last best shot to save their livelihoods.

Andrew Cuomo

Policy

How the school aid formula became unrecognizable

In the state budget, the governor included a requirement that school districts submit information to the state outlining how they will distribute aid to each of their schools. But the governor’s new transparency mandate is seen by many in the education community as an attempt to divert attention from a much more complicated and costly issue: how aid is divided up among school districts.

Politics

Bill de Blasio

So long, Shola, the Cohen raid and de Blasio’s mystery meeting

So long, Shola, the Cohen raid and de Blasio’s mystery meeting in your weekly news roundup.