Mayor Eric Adams proposed a budget Tuesday that expands summer programming for public schools and increases work opportunities for students. His remarks about education largely centered on expanding these programs as a way to keep…
Nearly four months after taking office, Mayor Eric Adams has yet to fill every seat on the city’s Panel for Educational Policy, which is charged with approving education department contracts and certain policy decisions including…
Inflation in the New York City area is growing at its highest rate in 30 years. That’s according to a report issued Friday by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. DiNapoli added that the hikes…
Prospects for New York passing its budget by Friday’s state-mandated deadline grew dim late Thursday afternoon after Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a statement updating where talks stood on the spending plan. In a three paragraphs…
New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin turned himself in to authorities Tuesday morning on federal charges related to his political campaigns, including bribery, and then resigned his position. The 45-year-old Democrat was arraigned in the…
The state budget New York lawmakers approved and Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law over the weekend does not include any tax increases. However, the Democrat who will run for election this fall said the…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday that she plans to go through a “process” to find a replacement for Brian Benjamin, who resigned Monday as her lieutenant governor after being arrested on bribery charges…
It was supposed to be just another routine weekly video conference for city Housing Authority bureaucrats to update managers on how things were going in public housing developments across the five boroughs. And then it…
When Lesya Kyrpenko arrived in New York in March with her twin adolescent children after fleeing war-torn Ukraine, she had one suitcase of clothes and little to her name. Nearly a month later, that’s still…
Use of state resources and personnel are at the heart of a lawsuit filed Friday by former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo against the state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics. Logged in state Supreme Court…