Yesterday, state Attorney General Tish James, joined by the Legal Aid Society, New York Civil Liberties Union and private plaintiffs reached a settlement with the NYPD over its treatment of protected speech protest activity as a result of its heavy-han…
Continue reading →The biggest threat to our representative democracy is not poll taxes or other active suppression of voting rights, but sophisticated fiddling with district maps and other seemingly mundane mechanics to amplify some citizens’ voices and squelch others. …
Continue reading →If you’re reading this online, when you’re done with the editorials, you should peruse the op-eds, then the news, sports and entertainment coverage. But after that, as an experiment, look at Airbnb.com or Vrbo.com and search for places to stay in New Y…
Continue reading →New York State has a rigorous Freedom of Information Law, called FOIL, where anyone can request public records from government agencies and the records will be supplied, with a few narrow exceptions. This applies equally regardless of who makes the req…
Continue reading →This Labor Day, there’s cause to celebrate in the form of an empowered National Labor Relations Board that’s exercising its regulatory muscle not only to turn back bad Trump-era policy, but bring labor processes into the contemporary era.
Continue reading →With one simple change, the Biden Department of Labor has put millions of lower-wage salaried workers on a path to greater financial security. With a rule unveiled last Wednesday, the administration would mandate that non-hourly workers in a variety of…
Continue reading →There’d be some considerable head-scratching if prosecutors scheduled an arraignment with a blank charging document and explained that they were still figuring out the charges and trying to find evidence. In fact, any self-respecting judge would laugh …
Continue reading →Thursday night, as people were tuning into Ch. 7 to “Generation Gap” (a repeat of the “Bernie Mac and Cheese” episode), the screen changed to say this:
Continue reading →Four years out from the supposed closure of Rikers, Mayor Adams this week hinted that he thought the plan could not be carried out and called on the City Council to face that reality. He’s right, but any reevaluation of the Aug. 31, 2027 closure has to…
Continue reading →The Supreme Court’s sweeping 2022 Bruen ruling overturning New York’s century-old gun-permitting law, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, created a dangerously blurry eye-of-the-beholder standard for assessing whether firearms regulations pass muster w…
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