Sep. 11, 2023 By Bill Parry
Queens electeds applaud governor for signing Lunar New Year holiday legislation
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‘Toking’ action: City Council unanimously approves stiff fines on landlords who rent to unlicensed cannabis shops
Jun. 22, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller
Amid a push to further crackdown on illicit cannabis sales, the City Council on Thursday unanimously passed a bill barring landlords from knowingly leasing commercial space to stores that sell unlicensed marijuana or tobacco products.
Officials break ground on new Jamaica Hospital emergency department expansion project
Jun. 16, 2023 By Carlotta Mohamed Governor Kathy Hochul joined Jamaica Hospital officials and local electeds on Friday, June 16, for a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the expansion of the hospital’s new Emergency Department that will improve access to quality emergency care in southeast Queens and neighboring communities. About 500 attendees were gathered outside in…
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Goldman, Bowman urge city universities to audit their space for housing migrants
May. 22, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller
Congress Members Dan Goldman (D-Manhattan/Brooklyn) and Jamaal Bowman (D-Bronx/Westchester) on Monday sent a letter to several leaders of New York City’s public and private universities, urging them to conduct an audit of their available space for possibly housing migrants.
‘Let them work’: Hochul, Adams call on Biden to expedite work permits for migrants
May. 22, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller
Governor Kathy Hochul joined Mayor Eric Adams and New York City’s business leaders on Monday to give President Biden a simple message: let tens of thousands of newly arrived asylum seekers in the city work.
Jordan Neely subway homicide | Mayor Adams says ‘let process follow course’ on investigation into deadly choking of homeless man
May. 4, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller & Dean Moses As ever more city and state pols strongly condemned an incident where a homeless Black man was killed by being placed in a chokehold by another man on a subway car Monday as vigilantism, Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday he’s going to wait for pending investigations…
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Queens senators fought to remove controversial housing proposal from state budget
May. 4, 2023 By Carlotta Mohamed Members of the Senate Queens Delegation were successful in playing a pivotal role in removing Gov. Kathy Hochul’s controversial statewide Housing Compact from the final state budget that would have had a significantly negative impact on the Queens community. In January, Hochul introduced the housing proposal that would have made sweeping…
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Adams says $1B in state migrant aid isn’t enough to reverse city budget cuts
May. 2, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller
Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday said that $1 billion approved in the state budget for reimbursing the Big Apple’s migrant crisis spending won’t be enough to reverse recent wide-ranging cuts he’s made to city agency budgets in anticipation of the influx’s projected cost.
State budget could be finalized by week’s end with talks stuck on cannabis, charter schools: Hochul
Apr. 25, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller
With the state budget now nearly a month late and on the heels of Governor Kathy Hochul and state legislative leaders extending its deadline a fifth time on Monday, the governor said Tuesday there could be a final deal on the plan as early as the end of this week.
Hochul, lawmakers push budget deadline for second time with talks stuck on bail
Apr. 10, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller
Another week, another budget extension.