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All of the measures would be geared toward those who have been targeted in the “War on Drugs,” which include mostly Black and Latino people.

Stringer unveils plan for NYC to take active role in growing legal pot industry © Luiz C. Ribeiro New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer Just 1% of marijuana dispensaries in the country are Black-owned, according to city Comptroller Scott Stringer who promised Tuesday to end the inequity in New York City if he’s elected mayor. With recreational cannabis now legal for adults in New York, Stringer said he would provide city-funded grants to help pot entrepreneurs get licenses and set up a ...

Print Continue to article content Comptroller Scott Stringer has been angling for the teachers union’s support throughout his mayoral campaign. | Richard Drew/AP Photo Teachers union backs Stringer in crucial nod for mayoral campaign underperforming in early polls. The nod from the United Federation of Teachers was more or less expected following the union’s final forum this month. Members told POLITICO it was between Stringer and former City Hall attorney Maya Wiley. But with the backing...

Teachers union to vote on pick for New York City mayor 04/19/2021 10:00 AM EDT Editor’s Note: Weekly New York Education is a weekly version of POLITICO Pro’s daily New York Education newsletter. POLITICO Pro is a policy intelligence platform that combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day’s biggest stories. Act on the news with POLITICO Pro. Good morning and welcome to the Monday edition of the New York Education newsletter. We take a look at the week ahea...

Nearly one in four active Democratic voters age 50 and older ranked him first, with Adams and Stringer “in a dead heat” behind him, according to the survey. Former Citigroup executive Ray McGuire was listed first by 9% of Democratic voters.

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Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang. | AP Photo/Kevin Hagen Yang under fire after laughing at question about choking women Andrew Yang faced an onslaught of criticism Thursday after a video circulated of the leading mayoral candidate laughing when asked if he "choked b----es." In the video, someone asks the mayoral front-runner whether a man, “while he’s f---ing b----es, can he keep his Timbs on?” — a reference to Timberland boots. Yang said, "I think its purely up to your partner." The man...

Burned Out on the Left? Fri Apr 16, 2021 New York City went from being run by a Republican and a moderate Democrat, and descended into hard leftist under De Blasio. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortezs win, the defeat of Rep. Elliot Engel, and the campaign to replace Cuomo with a Socialist seemed to solidify the city and perhaps even the state as leftist territory. And yet, despite all that, the Left seems unable to get a grip on the upcoming mayoral election. A survey conducted by...

The survey found Andrew Yang leading his opponents in every demographic. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo Yang widens his lead in latest public poll as PAC forms to boost his candidacy With a little more than two months until New Yorkers head to the polls to pick the Democratic candidate for mayor, Andrew Yang is widening the gap over his second-place rival, Eric Adams. A survey conducted by Data For Progress, a national think tank, found 26 percent of voters are supporting Yang’s candidacy — doubl...

Regional By Reuvain Borchardt NEW YORK - Friday, April 16, 2021 at 4:40 pm | ד אייר תשפ"א Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang at a campaign appearance in City Hall Park last month. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid) Andrew Yang still appears to be the candidate to beat in the New York City mayoral race, with a poll showing him maintaining a double-digit lead over all rivals for the Democratic nomination fewer than 70 days from the primary election. Yang, an entrepreneur most noted for his p...