City Council

To learn why New York City’s housing picture is so bleak, you don’t have to read books and news articles. Just drop in on a meeting of the City Council’s Land Use Committee, where ignorance and progressive…
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Give President Joe Biden democracy, self-rule, and statehood for Washington, D.C. But not yet.Yesterday, Biden announced he would not veto Congress’s override of a new criminal code for D.C. passed by its city council. “I support D.C.…
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Uh-oh: State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli warns that the city’s budget deficit by 2027 could be double what City Hall now estimates, and his arguments are depressingly strong. DiNapoli’s office sees the red ink going…
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Faced with an inaccessible venue, Denver City Council member Chris Hinds says he had to climb out of his wheelchair and crawl onto a debate stage earlier this week.In a statement Wednesday, Hinds described the “public humiliation” of…
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A debate this…
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District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser Photo:…
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The City Council’s progressive circus — er, caucus — has fallen apart. Last week, nearly half the members who had proudly called themselves progressives deserted. They now see the progs’ “Defund the police”…
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A somber crowd gathered Thursday at a Brooklyn mosque to mourn the savage killing of NYPD Officer Adeed Fayaz — his brothers and sisters in blue of every race and creed united in bidding farewell to one of New…
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Several Big Apple restaurant owners were named without their knowledge in a letter sent to local politicians by Grubhub in a lobbying push to amend a law that limits what food delivery companies can charge the…
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There is a growing trend of treating criminals as a new protected class. Common-sense New Yorkers need to reject this idea before it’s too late. At a City Council Hearing on Intro 0632, which would prohibit…
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