Energy & Environment
Personality
Green New York initiatives touted at first City & State Trailblazers in Clean Energy event
Andrew Kessler, president of NY Green Bank, a division of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and New York City Council Member Sandy Nurse, delivered keynote remarks.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Nonprofits awarded $9.9 million in grants from New York Community Trust
Funding went to help local organizations pay workers secure living wages, support young people with disabilities, as well as environmental preservation efforts and asylum seekers’ access to health care.
Personality
Personality
There aren’t official rules about women politicians’ appearances, but unwritten pressures certainly exist
Despite their increasing visibility, women in government must still contend with gendered biases about the ways in which they choose to present themselves.
Policy
Policy
Mayor Adams unveils $111.6 billion executive budget
The mayor’s budget proposal reverses cuts to the NYPD, but not public libraries.
Albany Agenda
Updated
Politics
Crickets from Building Trades Council on New York’s housing deal
The construction unions were absent from an event with Gov. Kathy Hochul celebrating labor wins in the state budget.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Opinion: From Oklahoma City to today, defending democracy against division
The Jan. 6 insurrection proves the legacy of Timothy McVeigh, who grew up in Buffalo, has only grown more powerful.
Heard Around Town
Politics
Hochul: No plans to send National Guard to college protests in NY
Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state stands ready to assist the NYPD if they ask, but she doesn’t believe the National Guard is currently necessary.
Albany Agenda
Policy
The biggest issues left out of the state budget
The NY HEAT Act could still be passed before the end of session, though higher taxes on the wealthy are likely dead.
News & Politics
Opinion
Opinion: We visited the solidarity encampment at Columbia University. Here’s what it’s really like.
What we saw couldn’t be more different from the dire warnings of rampant antisemitic threats and pervasive danger coming from City Hall, Albany and the White House.
Polls
Personality
These City & State readers knew the budget would be done on 4/20
Nine people, including the co-director of the WFP and an Assembly member’s chief of staff, correctly guessed the date the budget would be finished – but only one will win a City & State bath mat.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
How peer-led support can change mental health outcomes
An interview with Baltic Street Wellness Solutions CEO Taina Laing
Personality
The biggest state budget Winners & Losers
Who came out on top and who had their priorities fall by the wayside?
Education
Policy
Nearly 30,000 students shut out of city’s popular summer school program
Roughly 138,000 families applied for just 110,000 slots in the program, and funding shortfalls threaten to shrink the program.
Albany Agenda
Politics
This was finally Eric Adams’ year in Albany
Gov. Kathy Hochul helped deliver key wins for her partner in New York City.
Albany Agenda
Policy
All the details of Albany’s final housing deal
‘Good cause’ eviction protections, a replacement for 421-a and tweaks to rent-stabilization all made it into this year’s state budget.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Providing educational support during and after foster care
An interview with At the Table Executive Director Mike Zink
New York State
Politics
Gov. Kathy Hochul hits new polling lows
A new Siena College poll shows New Yorkers aren’t happy with the governor, or congestion pricing.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
Errol Louis is at the heart of New York City politics
The NY1 political anchor and host of “Inside City Hall” balances interviewing elected officials with teaching the next generation of reporters – and launching a new national show.
Personality
Personality