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Stabilizing the MTA’s Rocky Finances in 2019 and Beyond
New York’s colossal and crumbling mass transit system is headed toward another cliff. This one is financial. The MTA’s just-adoptedContinue Reading
Democrats Came Within Inches of Wins in four other key New York Races; NYC Share of Statewide Vote Surged From ’14
The New York State Board of Elections certified final election results for November 6th this past Friday, Dec. 14th (Continue Reading
New York Democrats Won Big on Election Night, But Many Legislative Wins Were Razor-Thin
The slumbering Democratic midterm electorate awakened this year, in both New York and the nation. Across the country, the sumContinue Reading
Polls of Trump’s Credibility and Support for His Re-Election Show Him Doing Far Worse Than His General Approval Rating
One of the unending surprises of life in the Trump era for Americans who oppose the current President is howContinue Reading
Siena’s Assumptions about the Statewide Vote in New York Nov.6
Here are the assumptions behind Siena’s Poll that Cuomo leads Molinaro 49-36 in the gubernatorial election tomorrow. 59% of theContinue Reading
Midterms Down to the Wire: Results of NYT/Siena Live Polling of House Districts Nationwide Gives Dems Hope of Winning Control
The midterm election is coming to its conclusion, and the importance of this election and the tightness of so manyContinue Reading
New York and New Jersey House Races Factor into the National MidTerm Picture
New York and New Jersey competitive House races are battleground districts in the midterms next week. Here’s a straight-no-chaser articleContinue Reading
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
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
STATE BUDGET DOES HELP MASS TRANSIT, BUT MTA CAPITAL PLAN UNCERTAINTY RISING
The MTA received two significant infusions of new money in the State Budget adopted effective this April 1st. The firstContinue Reading
CONGRESS 2018: A LOOK AT RECENT POLLS VS. WHAT HAPPENED IN 2014
The flow of polling across the country about politics includes a question regularly asked of the electorate called the GenericContinue Reading
