Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s Note: 4/20 isn’t just for smoking this year
Tokers, already outside, can enjoy 53 car-free streets as part of the New York City Department of Transportation’s early celebration of Earth Day.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: A real plan for Empire AI
New York’s AI initiative needs strong labor standards and ethical guardrails.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Training the next generation of cyber experts
In an age of cyber threats, investing in our cybersecurity workforce is crucial to our national security.
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s Note: Oh, by the way, OJ died
The former Buffalo Bills running back, actor and convicted felon’s death was a passing afterthought.
Rikers Island
Opinion
Opinion: Is it possible to get the effort to close Rikers Island back on track?
The troubled jail’s closure has been cast adrift in a sea of half truths, bad ideas and polarized debate.
Housing
Opinion
Opinion: Domestic violence survivors like me need housing support
To ensure survivors can obtain safe housing, Albany must include funding for the Housing Access Voucher Program and New York State Supportive Housing Program in the state budget.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: New York’s inequality is a policy choice. Our budget can fix this.
Gov. Kathy Hochul should be investing in our communities instead of proposing education and health care cuts.
Budget
Opinion
Opinion: Answering the call to save local news in New York
Since 2004, New York has lost nearly half of its local newspapers. The bipartisan Local Journalism Sustainability Act will ensure New Yorkers have access to the independent local news they deserve.
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s Note: Earthquake and total eclipse are sign of impending state budget – we hope
If not, New York may really be heading into an apocalypse.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Confronting the surge in domestic violence homicides in NYC
Survivors need access to safe housing and community-based violence prevention.
Immigration
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Opinion: Shelter limits are not the answer to the migrant crisis
We need to find sustainable solutions to the crisis, instead of forcing people out of shelters.
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Opinion
Opinion: Cut out the home care middlemen
Private insurance companies are pocketing millions of dollars intended for home care workers.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: The plan to tax stock trades is a terrible idea
Restoring the stock trade tax will drive Wall Street traders out of New York City and harm ordinary investors.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: It’s time to promote responsible AI development to better serve New Yorkers
We need to make AI research affordable for nonprofits and schools, so that Big Tech companies won’t have a monopoly on this transformative technology.
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Opinion
Opinion: New York needs an ‘all of the above’ approach to affordable housing development
Social housing, developer tax abatements, Good Cause tenant protections, building on state-owned land, accessory dwelling units – we need them all!
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s Note: Perception is NYC’s greatest challenge – and it’s Eric Adams’ too
The mayor, who said he knows New Yorkers aren’t happy after going through COVID-19 and the migrant influx, doubles down on promoting his agenda.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Slaying New York’s two-headed monster driving up car insurance costs
The city and state must increase enforcement against garaging fraud and “ghost cars,” the illegal practices responsible for New York’s extremely high car insurance costs.
Albany Agenda
Opinion
Opinion: Nationwide, LGBTQ+ young people are in crisis. New York can do something about it.
We must include funding for free mental health appointments for our youth in this year’s state budget.
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Opinion
Opinion: New York needs money. It’s time to tax stock trades.
Hong Kong and London already tax stock trades. Why shouldn’t New York?
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Opinion
Opinion: New Yorkers deserve subway safety, not scare tactics and empty responses
To improve public safety on the subways, we need more services for mentally ill individuals, not more National Guard troops.
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