Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Helping freelancers with taxes and bolstering rights in the workplace

A Q&A with Vilda Vera Mayuga, commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.

Labor

Policy

State lawmakers look to improve pensions to attract public sector workers

Complaints are rampant about the Tier 6 pension level, which some believe make working for the state less appealing.

Cannabis

Policy

When will New York’s pot industry be ready to take off?

Despite lawsuits and bureaucratic snafus, the state has redoubled its efforts to jump-start the cannabis industry.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Chuck Schumer is taking the lead on AI regulation

In remarks at a Tech:NYC and IBM event, the U.S. Senate majority leader laid out the big pieces of his AI framework.

Technology

Personality

AI can be used to provide better services for New Yorkers

A Q&A Assembly Member Clyde Vanel, chair of the Subcommittee on Internet and New Technology

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

New York’s goal for ‘safe, secure, ethical and transparent” AI

A Q&A with Jennifer Lorenz, Executive Deputy CIO, State Office of Information and Technology Services

Personality

Personality

Julie Menin’s political future

DA or BP? Local leaders, pundits predict where she might go once the census is over.

New York City

Policy

Why rabbis can’t contain the measles outbreak

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities are ground zero for the measles epidemic, even though their religious and political leadership urges vaccination. It’s a sign that the political power of rabbis in Hasidic communities is diminishing.

New York State

Politics

An Irish lament: The fading of Hibernian political power

New York has the most Irish-Americans of any major city in the country, but their political clout reached an unheralded nadir last year after state Senator Marty Golden and Representatives Joe Crowley and Dan Donovan were swept from power by challengers.