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City Council Member Ari Kagan’s website was taken over by porn for two years
It’s a dead link now, but for a while it was a risky click.
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Update: How New York members of Congress voted on the debt ceiling deal
The House voted to raise the $31.4 trillion federal debt ceiling on Wednesday night, sending the bill to the Senate.
2023 elections
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Why super PACs may have even more influence in City Council primaries
And other things to know from the latest campaign finance filings.
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Suburban Democrats lost. Now they wield all the power.
Whether carving themselves out of a tax to fund the MTA or killing the governor’s marquee proposal, it’s a great time to be repping the suburbs.
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Lawmakers consider a bevy of appointments in waning days of session – including two former Assembly members
We’ll let you decide which ones are sinecures.
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Hells Angels lawyer goes to bat for Marjorie Velázquez
The City Council member didn’t roll out the red carpet, but is getting some help from the Bronx Democratic Party.
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Jessica Ramos on halting Steve Cohen’s Queens casino plan
The Queens state senator is also working on her remaining legislative priorities, like protecting against wage theft.
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Inez Dickens has moved to evict a tenant while running for office
The Assembly member said the tenant hasn’t paid rent in years, but she has been criticized as a “slumlord” before.
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The WFP endorses a challenger to City Council Member Darlene Mealy
Isis McIntosh Green is getting late support from the progressive third party.
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Why isn’t the GOP trying to unseat the remaining Democrats on Staten Island?
District Attorney Michael McMahon will skate to another term without a primary or general election challenge.
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Poll: City voters like the mayor – but women are open to an alternative
A new Slingshot Strategies survey finds New York City likes its Democrats.
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Old overseer overseeing oversight: Amy Loprest is backing leading the New York City Campaign Finance Board
Executive Director Beth Rotman is leaving after just seven months – but she isn’t being pushed out by the mayor.
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We asked the NYPD for all correspondence on Lisa White’s controversial hiring. They sent us 15 emails.
The NYPD deputy commissioner for employee relations is a longtime friend – and former landlord – of Mayor Eric Adams.
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How City Council District 9 campaigns are adjusting to Kristin Richardson Jordan dropping out
“A KRJ voter was not an Inez Dickens voter," but does it give Yusef Salaam a boost for this Harlem seat?
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A good sign from Philadelphia, and a positive poll for Eric Adams
It hasn’t been all bad for New York City’s mayor.
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Zak Malamed raised $225,000 in first day running for Congress
He’s the latest Democrat to file for Rep. George Santos’ 3rd Congressional District seat.
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The Democrats positioning for a special election in George Santos’ district
Jay Jacobs may hold the power, as candidates like Robert Zimmerman, Anna Kaplan and maybe Tom Suozzi jockey for support.
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NY Senate leader vague about plans for end of session, but ‘good cause’ eviction as written is out
State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins didn’t have many details about the agenda for the remaining weeks aside from excluding the tenant protections.
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Hochul struggling with favorability among independents, seeing progress with suburbanites
A recent Siena College Research Institute poll showed Gov. Kathy Hochul with her lowest favorability yet, but suburban voters are liking her more than they did in March when she was trying to force them to build housing.
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