Longtime Cuomo aide Charlie King has been involved in efforts to boost Assemblymember Jordan J.G. Wright.

Using an exemption to a 2012 law, the Partnership for New York City has revealed the names of donors to its political arm, but not the amount each gave.

Nearly half a million New Yorkers on the Essential Plan could lose their coverage this summer.

That number is up from 21 last July. New York City’s waitlist alone has surged to over 17,000 — a tenfold increase in less than a year.

The city could lose $239 million from the policy, which is supported by business groups while unions remain on the sidelines.

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Some climate activists want the mayor to take a stronger stance. He previously said the state’s climate law “is not a suggestion. It is a mandate.”

Local Partnerships Network
Budget

The governor, Senate, and Assembly all have different ideas for how to implement this year’s increases for human services contracts.

Unions want state leaders to sweeten their retirement packages. What would it cost, and what would it achieve?

Sam Mellins

Under the governor’s proposal, the most concrete deadline for climate action would be pushed out to the end of her potential second term.

Colin Kinniburgh
Climate and Environment

Attorney General Letitia James alleges Attyx “built its business by defrauding consumers.”

ConEd says New York’s battery boom could overload the grid. The industry and its allies are pushing back.

Colin Kinniburgh

The Senate and Assembly are resisting Hochul’s push to relax New York’s emissions targets and are instead pressing for renewed clean energy funding.

Colin Kinniburgh
Criminal Justice

The bill follows reporting from New York Focus and other news outlets on prison staff mistaking menstrual and contraceptive products for hidden contraband.

Prison officials have refused to release crucial records on how the agency handles allegations of sexual abuse.

Nick Pinto

The governor and legislature are negotiating over immigration legislation outside of the budget process.

Liv Veazey
New York State

Over the last three months, ICE attorneys in New York state have petitioned to send half of the African asylum seekers who had immigration hearings to Uganda.

Critics say the $10 annual fees state drivers pay to fight car insurance theft and fraud aren’t being used as intended.

Chris Bragg

It remains to be seen whether the Assembly will get on board.

Sam Mellins
Explainers

The bill would dissolve contracts that allow federal immigration authorities to use county jails, but would leave more informal collaboration with local law enforcement untouched.

Outgoing Comptroller Brad Lander wants the city’s pension funds to reconsider $42 billion in investments with the firm, but it may fall to his successor to take action.

Colin Kinniburgh

Voters across the state are scratching their chins about a question on their ballots concerning an Adirondacks winter sports facility. Here’s what’s going on.

Sam Mellins