Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Why Somos needs to stay in Puerto Rico
A relocation of the annual conference to the Dominican Republic would not align with the principles and values the event has promoted between New York and La Isla del Encanto.
Health Care
Opinion
Opinion: Medical aid in dying is a long overdue human right for New Yorkers
Terminally ill patients deserve the right to decide to end their suffering on their own terms and timeline.
Opinion
Opinion
Editor’s Note: New York City journalists boldly take a stand and keep their seats
Reporters at the Daily News staged a one-day strike over cost-cutting, while other reporters at a City Hall press conference ignored an attempt to make them stand.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Major oil, gas and coal companies must pay the staggering costs of the climate crisis
A call for including the Climate Change Superfund Act in this year’s state budget after “the worst” flooding since Superstorm Sandy recently hit Long Island’s South Shore.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: We can still make progress on housing affordability in 2024
Here’s legislation that can remove major hurdles to producing mixed income development and avoids further concentrating poverty.
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s note: Hornell is no longer overlooked as America’s high-speed rail manufacturing home
The tiny town in the Southern Tier is on a comeback building next-generation Acela trains as well as other trains for transportation systems across the country.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: To judge a society, look at how it treats its children
An argument for implementing the Raise the Age act.
Nonprofits
Opinion
OPINION: Serving justice while limiting the collateral damage
Here’s why the Child Victims Act poses an unintended threat to nonprofits serving New York’s child welfare system and what can be done.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Latinos make up 22% of new hires within Adams administration, 2% more than de Blasio, but it’s not enough
City Hall’s latest workforce report filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shows how a historical hiring bias has been slow to reverse.
Policy
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Editor’s note: A safety concern on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge is allowed to continue
Vendors were kicked off the bridge because they blocked pedestrians, however, anyone exiting on Centre Street has to dodge bicyclists on a shared path called the “porkchop.”
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Hochul, meet with the grieving families before you act
The governor has an opportunity to put patient safety above special interests.
Opinion
Opinion
Commentary: A look at the new New York City Department of Correction Commissioner’s attempts at transparency show slow to no progress
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie, previously the first deputy commissioner of the department, made tall promises to the Board of Correction that she didn’t deliver on.
Opinion
Opinion
Commentary: New York is to blame for Donald Trump
Both the city and state, governed largely by Democrats, set the stage so that a rich, white man could be rewarded for shamelessness, dishonesty and criminality.
Opinion
Opinion
Editor’s note: NYC reporters cannot lose ‘the Shack’ at One Police Plaza
This grimy office is the only foothold the press has within the confines of the NYPD.
Opinion
Opinion
OPINION: How New York state can support migrants now
Pass the Access to Representation Act to establish the statewide right to a lawyer in immigration court
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Light at the end of the tunnel for New York’s redistricting
Here’s what to expect following the latest Court of Appeals decision on redistricting.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: It’s time for New York to consider reparations
New York legislators have passed a bill to establish the state's first reparations commission. Gov. Kathy Hochul should sign it.
Andrew Cuomo
Opinion
Commentary: It’s too early to anoint Cuomo the next mayor
He’d struggle in ranked-choice voting. Campaign finance laws would prevent him from transferring his war chest into a mayoral campaign. And he doesn’t even live in New York City.
Technology
Opinion
Opinion: New York City must lead boldly on AI
The technology could be a huge economic boon to New York, but it also poses serious potential threats to our city.
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s note: David Banks delivered a sobering message about his response to the Hillcrest High School protest
The New York City schools chancellor recognized that “schooling” wasn’t enough to bring context to the Israel-Hamas war.
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