Gotham Gazette

Opinion: "In April 2020, Governor Andrew Cuomo virtually forced the New York legislature to make severe changes to New York’s ballot access. If those changes are not reversed, voters will invariably see only two candidates on their general election ballots in 2022 for almost all congressional and statewide races." by Richard Winger, publisher of Ballot Access News Read more:

Opinion: "The construction industry workforce all across this state is keeping New York’s economic engine revving, yet for all their hard work, many are still being ripped off, or getting paid far less than what they were promised." by Kevin Barry, director of the construction division of the United Service Workers Union (USWU-IUJAT) Read more:

Six leading candidates running in the Democratic primary for New York City Comptroller in the June election appeared at a forum on Tuesday (5/4) to offer their perspectives on the role of the office. Read more:

LISTEN: David Freedlander of New York Magazine and Sally Goldenberg of Politico New York, joined the show to discuss the landscape of the Democratic primary.

Opinion: As a New Yorker who has worked in senior management in both of New York City’s major police oversight agencies, our system of independent police oversight is more broken than you might think, and the current plans for reform won’t fix it. by Nicole Napolitano, Ph.D, Director of Policy and Advocacy of the Civilian Complaint Review Board, and former Senior Policy Manager at the Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD Read more:

Opinion: "In recent memory public banking was an idea that belonged either to a distant utopian future or a distant populist past. But today, not only is public banking on the agenda of major New York politicians, but competing visions of public banking are on offer." by Sam Copeland, freelance journalist Read more:

Governor Cuomo and the Legislature approved a $212 billion state budget this week, an immense spending plan bolstered by new state tax increases. Read more:

LISTEN: Emerita Torres of the Community Service Society of New York joined the show to discuss how the next mayor should address the needs of New Yorkers living in poverty, and how Democratic mayoral candidates have responded to CSS' survey.

LISTEN: State Senator Gustavo Rivera, a Bronx Democrat, joined the show to discuss the new state budget, key highlights from the massive spending plan, and what's next.

Opinion: "In 2019, my colleagues in Albany approved congestion pricing for drivers to enter a proposed zone in midtown Manhattan (over my strenuous objection and no vote). Under the plan, anyone entering the borough south of 60th Street in a car or truck will be charged an extra fee." by David Weprin, Assemember from Queens and a Democratic candidate for New York City Comptroller Read more:

Opinion: "The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the dangers facing domestic violence survivors." by Liz Roberts, Interim CEO of Safe Horizon Read more:

Many of New York’s smaller political parties face an uncertain future after they appear to have failed to garner enough votes to keep an automatic ballot line over the next two years under new rules Read more:

Though hundreds of thousands of votes across New York are still to be counted and many races are not yet called, it appears certain Democrats will retain the majority in the State Senate Read more:

Opinion: Over the last several weeks, the NYPD convened and broadcasted eight police reform and reinvention listening sessions. These sessions were a sham." by Ashley C. Sawyer, Senior Director of Campaigns and Charlotte Pope, Director of Policy at Girls for Gender Equity - GGE Read more:

While final results and tallies are still unknown, it appears that the 2020 election has seen an increase in voter turnout in New York, as it has across the country. Read more:

The results of early voting, point to a number of potential changes. Highest on the list for voting rights advocates is eliminating assigned early voting sites. Read more:

Results are not official, hundreds of thousands of ballots are still to be counted, and only some New York races can be called as of election night, but millions of votes cast by New Yorkers in the 2020 general election have provided some indication of winners of a number of races. Read more:

The Special Flushing Waterfront District is a planned rezoning to usher in massive development along Flushing Creek, and is now being eyed by both proponents and critics Read more:

The country will be watching, and voting, with bated breath as the most consequential presidential election in decades nears conclusion. Read more:

Gotham Gazette was in touch with several people who have been trained as poll workers this year about their experience training for the job and what they considered the most reassuring and most concerning parts of the election process. Read more:

Voting in the general election is set to come to a conclusion on Tuesday, November 3, Election Day. The full, official results won't be known for weeks. Read more:

In 2016, Mayor de Blasio announced he would push for legislation to professionalize the day-to-day operations of the BOE. Over four years later, de Blasio made a similar announcement this week. Read more:

Opinion: "It happened two weeks ago in the dead of the night. More than a dozen people wearing hoods and masks arrived on bicycles outside my family's Manhattan residence and proceeded to vandalize it." by Randy Mastro, Chair of Citizens Union, a former New York City Deputy Mayor, and a current partner at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Read more: