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Critics Say Messy Budget ‘Deal’ Highlights Bigger Woes

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. Are New York’s legislators making the sausage the wrong way? When it ...
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Pension Fund Litigators Donated Heavily to New York Comptroller’s Campaign

In 2019, New York City’s main pension fund accused two law firms within its own pool — Bernstein Litowitz and another firm — ...
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Scores of New York School Districts Report Using Discredited Reading Curricula

When Governor Kathy Hochul unveiled her signature literacy legislation in 2024, she stressed that New York was late to the game — calling it “embarrassing” that Connecticut, New Jersey, and other ...
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Videos Show Upstate Cops Calling Border Patrol on Drivers

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. A sheriff’s deputy in Oswego County, in north-central New York, pulled ...
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The Young Populist Trying to Redefine the New York Democratic Party — and We Don’t Mean Mamdani

The populist Democrat has won four consecutive elections in a suburban New York Senate district with more registered ...