Retail Unions Are Gaining Ground As Frontline Workers’ Job Dissatisfaction Grows
Increasingly, retail workers are turning to unions to advocate for better pay and benefits with Amazon, Starbucks and Costco ...
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Non-Citizen Voting at the Court of Appeals
New York's highest tribunal, the Court of Appeals, hearing a case at Albany in 2009. Tracy Collins via Wikimedia Commons ...
Special election set to fill Nassau's 2nd District seat, formerly held by Siela Bynoe
District 2 is currently one of Nassau’s so-called "majority-minority" areas, where nearly 40% of residents are Hispanic and ...
800,000 noncitizens could soon be voting in New York City's elections
New York's top court is hearing arguments over legislation from the New York City Council that would allow noncitizens to ...
New York’s top court to consider noncitizen voting in city elections
If the court upholds a city law, more than 800,000 people would be newly eligible to register in New York City ...
Hochul plan to increase commitments of mentally ill raises specters of the past
The goal is to get the more of the mentally ill into psychiatric hospitals and outpatient care. However, some fear it is a ...
Trump Says He Might Use U.S. Transit Agency to ‘Kill’ Congestion Pricing
In an interview with The New York Post, President Trump said that congestion pricing hurt New York City but indicated that he ...
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NYPD looking for man who’s been stealing iPhones from women on the R train
Police said they were also looking for another man who has been breaking into and stealing equipment from a church in Staten ...
NYC GOP leadership fight takes twist after plea to Democratic leader to step in — and now someone else will be in charge
Council Republicans will again vote for their leader, after a clash left the tiny  minority caucus fractured following the ...
NYC should respect independent voters
I received texts from Be Counted NYC and the Jewish Voters Action Network. Both urged me to change registration from ...
‘A new generation of working-class leaders’: Democratic challenger kicks off campaign for Staten Island borough president
Yes, I am a Democrat. But before anything else, I’m a Staten Islander. I don’t give a damn about party politics.' ...
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List of Democrats running for governor in NJ
Democratic congresswoman Mikie Sherill is jumping into next year's race for New Jersey governor. The former federal prosecutor and U.S. navy helicopter pilot joins an already crowded field to replace ...