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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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Opinion: Economic development + economic justice = economic diversity

Increasing economic diversity is a strategy for both growth and justice.

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Opinion: Stop treating aging New Yorkers like an afterthought

Millions of New Yorkers rely on family caregivers, and they deserve more than a delayed budget.

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Opinion: All media needs help

New York state’s local journalism sustainability program should include nonprofit newsrooms, too.

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Opinion: Legalize bodega cats

Keeping cats in bodegas and other retailers is technically prohibited by city and state law, but our legislation would fix that.

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Opinion: Our laws must make clear that intoxication is not consent

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a time to confront the gaps that continue to leave survivors without justice.

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Opinion: To help the outer boroughs, keep World Cup tourists in hotels

Airbnb’s proposal to roll back the city’s regulations on short-term rentals during the World Cup would siphon visitors away from struggling outer borough hotels.

Energy & Environment

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Opinion: Our private energy system is failing. The public can save it.

New York must move off fossil fuels as soon as possible – and the only way to meet this goal is to plan our energy system around the needs of the public, not profiteers.

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Opinion: Striking at the second homers

With the pied-à-terre tax, democratic socialism begins its turn in the spotlight.

Editor's Note

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Editor’s note: When an arrest can help

Council Member Chi Ossé got roughed up by the cops this week, boosting awareness of deed theft – and his own profile.