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Officials advance zoning changes for casinos

“The ‘City of Yes’ should not be something that we’re applauding as a generational-changing thing,” Antonio Reynoso said at a policy breakfast hosted by the NYU Furman Center, while still acknowledging the plan as a positive step.

NYCHA residents to vote on new funding model

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Among the policies jockeying for inclusion in this year’s spending plan is a longtime push to allow New York City to set its own speed limits.

The city’s approval process was two to three times as long as the process in cities with similar requirements like Boston and Los Angeles.

With Donald Trump issuing “endorsements” of his enemies running in his old hometown’s handful of competitive Democratic congressional primaries and Democrats still taking the bait and enhancing his “main character” status in the process, here’s a funny (not funny) thought about New York’s deeply dysfunctional one-party politics:

AAA predicted 47.9 million people would travel at least 50 miles this weekend, just shy of pre-pandemic levels.

Stories about corruption at Loretto Hospital and shifting profits at the state’s Medicaid program are honored with the annual award for achievement in independent journalism.

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