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The New York State Legislature, Governor Cuomo, reformers, advocates, and plenty of ordinary citizens are justly celebrating the passage and signing into law of major improvements to democracy in New York. I am too. New York State will now permit early voting beginning with the General Election in 2019, allowing voting up to nine days…
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This graph from Blog Toronto on single-fare transit rides in North America show NYC Transit slightly above average but far from the highest- many systems are nearly equal to NYC Transit in single-ride fares
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Congestion pricing is an essential step to keep the MTA’s operations and capital plans for construction, new signals and track, and new subway cars, buses, and commuter rail cars funded. But it is actually just a step. It would stabilize the current plan to borrow $12 billion for new investments and maintain operations through 2022…
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This fall, Governor Cuomo signed a campaign pledge with Long Island State Senate Democratic candidates, many of whom won their elections, to make New York City bear greater responsibility for the subway and bus system’s capital needs. The campaign pledge was the continuation of a long-standing demand by the Governor that New York City contribute…
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New York’s colossal and crumbling mass transit system is headed toward another cliff. This one is financial. The MTA’s just-adopted budget says it will have a $500 million deficit in 2020 and the deficit will rise to about $1 billion a year by 2022, even with two fare and toll hikes, in 2019 and 2021.…
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The New York State Board of Elections certified final election results for November 6th this past Friday, Dec. 14th ( about time!!). I pointed out in a recent article that the Democratic Party had a number of very close victories, especially in State Senate races, this past fall. But they came within inches in a…
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The slumbering Democratic midterm electorate awakened this year, in both New York and the nation. Across the country, the sum of the votes of the Democratic candidates for every House of Representatives race in the nation was 60.5 million and still counting. In 2014, only 35.6 million voted Democratic. While Democrats are celebrating their booming…
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One of the unending surprises of life in the Trump era for Americans who oppose the current President is how well he does in his general approval rating, when it seems so obvious that he is a disgraceful liar and con man. Well, the good news is that questions about Trump’s credibility in those same…
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Here are the assumptions behind Siena’s Poll that Cuomo leads Molinaro 49-36 in the gubernatorial election tomorrow. 59% of the vote will be over 55- a mere 8% will be 18-34. New York City will be 27% of the vote, Upstate 46%.
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The midterm election is coming to its conclusion, and the importance of this election and the tightness of so many races has only reinforced the addiction to polls I developed in 32 years as a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly. I know, as we all do, that polls can be wrong; sometimes,…