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Governor Hochul’s last-second announcement on June 5th, 2024, to pause New York’s Congestion Pricing Plan caused understandable dismay and even outrage from supporters of mass transit in the region, while the decision was hailed by leaders in the New York City suburbs and even some in the City’s boroughs outside of Manhattan. There are two…
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In my Part One on why President Biden is not to blame for inflation in the United States, I looked at how the COVID-19 pandemic turned the economy upside down in 2020 and 2021. In that piece, I noted that it was inevitable that Americans liberating themselves from the 2020 stay-at-home economy and hitting the…
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Leading up to the 2020 election, I wrote a series of blog posts titled, “The Purple Highway.” This time around, I’m going to, once again, write a number of posts about the 2024 election called, “The Precarious Election.” Why the Precarious Election? It’s because this time, it looks like the election between President Biden and…
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The emotionally unsatisfactory 2024 election was particularly unsettling for loyal Democrats this past fall and winter  as former President Trump  outperformed President Biden in the polls, with the polling average showing Trump ahead by as many as three points in late January and early February 2024 (45-42), according to The Economist’s Trump Biden polling tracker.…
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In this episode, Jim chats with his guests about significant features of the NYS budget (the NYS House and Senate recently passed separate versions, but the full legislature has yet to pass a final version) and also dives more deeply into the affordable housing crisis.
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The New York State Department of Labor reported on March 7th, 2024 that employment in New York grew by over 59,000 from December 2023 to January 2024. Private sector employment grew by 47,000. The healthy improvement also prompted Governor Hochul to announce that “ New York is back, “ since private sector employment in the…
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Governor Hochul submitted the State budget to the New York State Legislature on January 16th for Fiscal Year 2024-2025, to begin April 1st, 2024. A Cautious Initial Budget Proposal Governor Hochul submitted a cautious budget; cautious out of a belief there isn’t that much more money to spend, and cautious politically because her proposals to…
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Jim sits down with NYS Assemblymember Charles D. Lavine (D-13th District, Nassau County) and Jeffrey M. Wice, Adjunct Professor/Senior Fellow, NY Census & Redistricting Institute, NY Law School to discuss the NYS State Court of Appeals ruling that the State’s Congressional district maps set in 2022 must be redrawn yet again.
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On December 12, 2023, the New York State Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, ruled that the State’s Congressional district maps set in 2022 must be redrawn pursuant to a process that broke down that year, but remains obligated to be completed pursuant to the State’s Constitution and laws. Chief Judge Rowan Wilson stated…
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New York City Comptroller Brad Lander’s Nov. 14th newsletter provided these figures for the census in the shelter system as of Oct. 31, 2023. Non-migrants comprised about 54,000 persons and migrants about 65,000. Since August 2023, the numbers have been rising about 5,000 a month and have risen about 20,000 since June 2023. There are…
