POLITICO New York

22/08/2023

New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ trip to Israel is not like typical mayoral delegations to the Jewish state.

People traveling with the mayor argued that a face-to-face with the prime minister is not a tacit endorsement of his nationalist policies.

11/08/2023

Michael Cohen, one of Donald Trump’s most prominent former lawyers and now critic, is considering a long-shot bid for a deep-blue Manhattan congressional district.

Cohen is eyeing a run for Jerry Nadler’s affluent Manhattan district.

10/08/2023

Mayor Eric Adams said late Wednesday he has not talked with President Joe Biden in 2023 — a striking admission for someone who was once on a list of the president’s top surrogates and who is seeking federal help for the city’s migrant crisis.

Mayor Eric Adams once called himself the “Biden of Brooklyn.”

07/08/2023

In the name of prepping for an uncertain fiscal future, Mayor Eric Adams has given Budget Director Jacques Jiha wide latitude to reduce spending and quash initiatives sought by others in the administration.

The practice has saved the city money but has crowded out important policy and political considerations in the process.

Fiscal concerns have become a guiding principle for Mayor Eric Adams. That can make for bad politics.

26/07/2023

A grim financial outlook for the country’s offshore wind power industry is threatening President Joe Biden’s most important energy plans.

Funding shortfalls are imperiling projects in New York, New Jersey and beyond.

30/06/2023

Mayor Eric Adams doubled down Friday on comments he made earlier in the week comparing an 84-year-old whose family fled the Holocaust to a plantation owner.

The mayor justified his rhetoric by saying the woman, a tenant activist, was disrespectful.

29/06/2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis irked an influential New York Republican after his presidential campaign failed to coordinate a Rockland County fundraiser with the local party leader.

Rockland County GOP Chair Lawrence Garvey said he got no heads up from the DeSantis campaign before it sent out a flier for a $6,600-a-person fundraiser.

29/06/2023

Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council have reached a deal to restore funding to public libraries, three people with knowledge of budget negotiations.

The accord settles one of the most contentious issues ahead of a handshake agreement on the city’s spending plan before the July 1 deadline.

29/06/2023

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against affirmative action in higher education, striking down race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.

In a ruling divided along ideological lines, the high court found that the two universities discriminated against white and Asian American applicants by using race-conscious admissions policies that benefited applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority in the case. He was joined by the five other conservative justices. The three liberals dissented.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/29/supreme-court-ends-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions-00104179

23/06/2023

After lashing out at leading Republicans for busing asylum-seekers to Democrat-led cities, New York Mayor Eric Adams turned around and did something similar — sending dozens of migrants to red states like Florida and Texas.

Between April 2022 and April 2023, the city spent around $50,000 on travel costs to resettle 114 migrant households around the country and globe.

22/06/2023

Corazon Pineda-Isaac is looking to upend Yonkers mayor’s bid for fourth term

A boss-driven political machine maintains a stranglehold on local politics even though Yonkers is part of progressive firebrand Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s district and neighbors that of fellow Squad member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

22/06/2023

As the nation nears the one year anniversary of the fall of Roe, nearly a dozen challenges to abortion restrictions filed by clergy members and practitioners of everything from Judaism to Satanism that are now making their way through state and federal courts.

Jews, Episcopalians, Unitarians, Satanists and other people of faith say the laws infringe on their religious rights.