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In First Mayoral Debate, Maya Wiley Presses Andrew Yang On Nondisclosure Agreements arrow Mayoral candidates take part in a Brooklyn Democratic County Committee debate. screenshot In what was the sharpest jab of the first mayoral debate of the season, Maya Wiley took Andrew Yang to task on Sunday over reports that his campaign had used confidentiality agreements and cultivated a culture that was described as demeaning to women. “As a civil rights lawyer, I was shocked ...

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New York City council seeks to reduce NYPDs footprint with sweeping bill package. New York Councilman Joe Borelli and lieutenant Randy Sutton weigh in on Fox & Friends First. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday raised the possibility that a federal monitor could be put on the New York Police Department (NYPD), as well as challenged candidates vying for Mayor Bill de Blasio’s position during the election later this year to speak out on their proposals for police reform. The state Attorne...

A look at how several NYC mayoral candidates would bring back jobs amid COVID devastation Shant Shahrigian The city saw more than half a million jobs lost last year, and as many as one in three small businesses are predicted to close for good by the time the coronavirus pandemic dies down. New Yorkers have been left to wonder if they’ll be able to survive the years ahead. So what are the small army of 2021 mayoral candidates going to do about it? Their proposals range from giv...

SHARE: The race for New York City mayor took a couple of turns this week, with Zach Iscol exiting to launch a bid for city comptroller and “Real Housewives of New York City” star Barbara Kavovit hopping in to take his place. And some of the Brooklyn political dysfunction seeped into the race as well. Several candidates, including Dianne Morales, Andrew Yang, Maya Wiley and Scott Stringer, said they would boycott the Brooklyn Democratic Party’s upcoming mayoral forum over racist comme...

District Leader Lori Maslow at a virtual Brooklyn Democratic Party event in December. Southern Brooklyn Democrat Lori Maslow resigned from her District Leader position in the Brooklyn Democratic Party on Thursday, after weeks of intense criticism over a series of racist tweets threatened to derail the party’s election forum.  Maslow, whose 41st Assembly District includes parts of Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park and Flatlands, announced her resignation in a letter sent to county party leadership ...

arrow Scott Heins / Gothamist The race for NYCs next comptroller — the citys official money manager and auditor — is underway, and early campaigning has helped city councilmember Brad Lander out-raise his rivals so far, giving him an edge toward succeeding outgoing comptroller Scott Stringer (who is now running for Mayor). The citys Campaign Finance Boards website shows the legislator for Brooklyns 39th Council District as having raised more than $3 million, an amount that grew e...

A reduction would help the pension system better match projected investment returns.  Trustees at the New York City Retirement Systems (NYCRS) are looking at an actuary proposal to lower the assumed return to 6.8%, down from 7%, among other changes to assumptions and methods used by the chief actuary to determine pension obligations.  Lowering the assumed return would strengthen the $239.8 billion pension system, according to the Wednesday announcement from the New York City Office of the Act...

The race for New York City comptroller, often overshadowed by the mayoral race, is getting interesting. Just this month, one candidate in the race, state Sen.

Though they kicked things off with the podcast in 2019 with Remini’s Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, they’ve levelled up with the first official season launched last week, focusing on 2009 memoir Open by Andre Agassi, the legendary tennis player and ultimate 1990s style icon. The series expands gossip sessions into cultural analysis with eviscerating wit – on Rosie O’Donnells Find Me, where she gets scammed out of thousands of dollars of medical care by someone wit...