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The midterm elections are November 8,2022, and redistricting is virtually over. The surging turnout of an electorate seeking to repudiate Donald Trump brought Democratic victories for the Presidency in 2020, the Senate in 2021, and the House of Representatives in 2018. Now it is the Democrats who are challenged to preserve their tiny margin of…
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Lots of New York Democrats spend their falls campaigning in other parts of the country, heading to Pennsylvania or Ohio to knock on doors or participate by texting, phone banking, or in myriad other ways because New York is so Deep Blue. 2020 was no different. Joe Biden won New York State by 22 points…
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Pandemic Dollars + Improved Tax Receipts = Plenty to SpendGovernor Kathy Hochul released the New York State Executive Budget on January 18, 2022, setting the framework for an adopted budget before April 1 of this year by the Legislature and governor. The state is astonishingly flush with money, both federal pandemic relief funds and dramatically-improved…
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Governor Kathy Hochul will release the FY’23 State budget tomorrow, Jan. 18th, 2022. The State Division of the Budget and the Comptroller have been acknowledging the State will run surpluses in the multibillion range for this year and several years afterward. The Omicron surge will surely temper growth in the near-term, but cash surpluses from…
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On January 10th, 2022, the New York State Assembly and Senate voted down proposed Congressional, Assembly, and Senate district maps sent to them by the Independent Districting Commission following their deadlocked meeting on January 3rd, 2022. The Commission was unable to forge a consensus on any district maps and sent competing Democratic and Republican proposals,…
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The 2022 election for political control of the House of Representatives will be an unpredictable and dramatic event. The decennial reapportionment and redistricting of the House of Representatives is unfolding state by state. As the new year begins, 25 states have adopted redistricting maps (not including six states that have only one House district) that…
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Three proposed amendments to the New York State Constitution, two on expanding voting rights and one on legislative redistricting reform, were defeated by the voters in this year’s general election. Two other ballot proposals were passed. In order to appear on the ballot for voters to approve or disapprove, all five proposed amendments had to…
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New York City was the epicenter of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic as it began in the United States. It recorded its first death from the disease on March 1, 2020. The city’s economy also suffered a massive setback during the lockdown in the early months of the pandemic. A full job recovery is still several…
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The United States Census released the nation’s population data by congressional and state legislative district on August 12, setting underway the re-districting of legislative seats, controlled by each individual state. The process will now unfold in New York and around the nation, with control of the House of Representatives and state legislatures on the line.…
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The New York City Department of Health has been publishing daily vaccination counts and rates at which the overall population and different groups have been getting vaccinated. The population baseline the City has been using comes from a US Census July 2019 estimate of the City’s population, shown here below in an excerpt from the…
