As budget negotiations heat up in Albany, a group of legal aid advocates are making a push for legislation that would expand attorney student loan forgiveness.
Read MoreAll three mayoral candidates made their final pitches to Queens voters on Sunday as polls opened to historic early voting turnouts over the weekend.
Read MoreSouth Queens advocates are not giving up their calls for transparency and accountability in the redistricting process, months after the legislature approved lines that they say keep their communities divided.
Read MoreAs Queens and the city deal with the effects of an intense heatwave, State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie toured Bayswater Point State Park on Friday alongside local Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer Amato to discuss the future of the park and the effects of climate change on it and other areas in New York City.
Astoria Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani recently introduced "Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence act,” a bill that would stop tax-exempt registered nonprofits in New York from helping to fund the State of Israel’s settlement activities in the West Bank, which have been deemed illegal by the United Nations. That legislation is now garnering condemnation from dozens of his legislative colleagues who have called it antisemetic.
Read More“If we do not acknowledge it, address it and resolve it, this could be the difference between life and death for many New Yorkers.’
Read MoreNourish New York has enabled 4,000 farms to deliver more than 17 million pounds of food to people in need.
Read More“I'm saying to you that there will not be mass evictions in this state.”
Read More“The legislature has the power to enact a robust and meaningful moratorium on eviction.”
Read MoreThe DACC gave Simotas $125K before the election. She hired Bronx real estate lobbyist Stanley Schlein as her attorney.
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