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Opinion: Require all New York employers to offer paid family leave
New York lawmakers can end the carveout that excludes teaching professionals at non-profits from paid family leave, and they must act now.
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Opinion: Don’t let the late budget block priorities like banning ‘excited delirium’
There are only a few days left in the legislative session to ban this racist pseudoscience.
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Editor’s note: Goodbye to Al Sharpton’s House of Justice
He’s moving into a converted firehouse on West 124th Street.
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Opinion: New York City is drowning in packaging. A bill in Albany can help.
The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act would reduce single-use packaging by 30% and make companies, not taxpayers, cover the cost of managing packaging.
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Opinion: Make the Charter Revision Commission count
Whether it’s reforming civil service or better utilizing AI, Mamdani’s appointees should go big.
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Opinion: Kingston rent stabilization lawsuit shows why we need the REST Act
Burdensome requirements and legal challenges have blocked upstate cities from adopting rent stabilization, but the REST Act would fix that.
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Opinion: The debate over buffer zone bills ignores that New York has a war crimes problem
A CUNY Law professor’s case that Israeli real estate events in NYC violate international law – and potentially federal and state law, too.
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Opinion: More Asian New Yorkers should consider joining the government workforce
Though some roles in government employ few Asian workers, there’s no better time to serve your community from within government.
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Opinion: As we expand childcare, let’s ensure children with allergies are protected
All state licensed childcare centers should be required to stock epinephrine devices in case of emergency.
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Opinion: For the first time ever, “all leases, no increases”
The Rent Guidelines Board should side with tenants and approve an unprecedented rent freeze on both one- and two-year leases.
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Editor’s note: Celebrating press freedom at the LCA Show
We should err on the side of press access, even if it makes for some bad videos.
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Opinion: Why does New York shackle women during labor?
The Anti-Shackling bill and CARE Act would ensure we treat all pregnant New Yorkers, including those in police custody or incarcerated, with the care they and their newborns deserve.
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Opinion: The light that shines behind the prison walls
Without external scrutiny, the state prison system will return to a state of opacity where inefficiency and neglect go unnoticed until it is too late, and too expensive, to fix.
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Opinion: Council progressives call for rentals within reach
If fully funded with $248 million, Rentals within Reach would help ensure NYCHA and supportive housing are key pillars of our city’s safety net.
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Opinion: Can Mamdani confront the NYPD’s ‘Blue Power’?
Since the 1960s, the police department and police unions have constituted a powerful, at times implacable, force in city and state politics.
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Opinion: Big Pharma is lying about 340B, and New Yorkers are the ones who will pay
The 340B Prescription Drug Anti-Discrimination Act protects one of the few tools we have that helps keep healthcare accessible and affordable in New York, at no cost to taxpayers.
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Opinion: A well-intentioned bill could collapse NYC’s home care system
Intro. 303 does not solve the inequities in home care; it destabilizes the entire system and puts both workers and the New Yorkers who rely on them at risk
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Editor’s note: Introducing Heard Around Town
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Opinion: New York pension dollars shouldn’t be financing war abroad
Your retirement savings are funding a government that’s committing genocide.
