The City’s Economy and Its Residents are Generating an Increasingly Large Share of the State Government’s Resources
New York City and its economy have been growing at an extraordinary pace in recent years. It is quite clearContinue Reading
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Polls of House Districts Across the Nation Show Many Close Elections and Victory for Democrats Within Their Grasp
The New York Times and the Siena Polling Institute have joined forces to conduct extensive polling about the midterm electionsContinue Reading
Surging Voter Turnout in New York City May Mean Greater Importance in State Elections
There was an extraordinary turnout in the just-completed statewide Democratic primaries on Thursday,September 13. In the City alone, 855,000 DemocratsContinue Reading
August Employment Numbers: Pace of Job Growth From February 2010 to Last Week Has Been Same Regardless of Trump Bluster
The U.S. Labor Department just reported the nation’s payroll and unemployment rate numbers for August 2018 this past Friday, SeptemberContinue Reading
EVEN FOX NEWS HAS THE DEMOCRATS AHEAD BY ELEVEN POINTS IN A POLL ON THE MIDTERMS- A LABOR DAY LOOK AT A STRANGE POLL CALLED THE GENERIC CONGRESSIONAL BALLOT
Yes, it’s true. Even Fox News has the Democrats ahead of Republicans by eleven points in a late summer pollContinue Reading
FEDERAL CORPORATE TAX CUTS JUST GAVE NEW BILLIONS TO NEW YORK BUSINESSES- WHAT ABOUT THE MTA?
There is a sudden new source of money in New York State that is getting little attention in the debateContinue Reading
MAKING VOTING EASIER – AND SOME OF THE ROADBLOCKS ALONG THE WAY
The Albany Times-Union advocated a number of remedies to New York’s laws to increase voting participation in the State andContinue Reading
The Coming Election for Governor and the Economy in Upstate New York
The health of the Upstate New York economy will be a major issue in the coming election for Governor ofContinue Reading
THE BYFORD PLAN AND THE MTA INFORMATION DEFICIT
New York City Transit’s new president, Andy Byford, recently presented a major plan to fix the subways, called “Fast Forward,”Continue Reading
CONGRESS 2018: THE 7% SOLUTION- CAN DEMOCRATS GET THERE? A MAY POLLING UPDATE
The Congress 2018 column I published in early April looked at how the Democrats and Republicans are doing in theContinue Reading