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Last month, we asked five questions about what would happen in the election. Here are the answers.
Former President Donald Trump swept four of the seven key swing states to win the presidency last night, and appears on track ...
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Has New York Built Its Last Fossil Fuel Plant?
After a lengthy appeal, Danskammer withdrew its permit application this past summer, in what many advocates saw as the nail ...
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New York ‘Birth Grant’ Bill Would Pay New Parents With Medicaid Funds
Funding the “birth grant” through Medicaid has a clear benefit for New York state: Medicaid is half-funded by the federal ...
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AI Isn’t Coming to Crash New York’s Electric Grid. Yet.
Major new tech facilities aren't expected to overload the state’s grid — but NYC could fall short of power in the early 2030s ...
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Rehired: How New York’s Problem Cops Can Bounce Between Jobs
The state doesn’t publicize officer employment histories, making it impossible to track so-called wandering officers.
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Can Police Departments Be Trusted to Release Their Own Misconduct Records? Apparently Not.
In January 2023, the mayor of the Village of Chester, in Orange County, received an anonymous letter from a village police officer about the police chief. The letter said that, starting in 2020, Chief ...