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Feeling out of the loop this election season? Here’s a crash course
It’s been a long election season. If you avoided the election until this moment, here is a roundup of some of our election stories to help you understand your choices. The basics Issues Presidential and congressional races Your community After you vote
The cost of representation: Kamala Harris, race, and our own internal struggles
Vice President Kamala Harris has been on my mind. I’ve been thinking about whether she’s Black enough to appeal to Black voters, too Black to get the white voters, and how it must feel for her to find the “right” balance. I’ve also been thinking about how many times she’s been the only Black (or…
Your cheat sheet to NYC’s ballot proposals
With early voting underway in New York, informing yourself about the issues on the ballot can be a good alternative to doom-scrolling or avoiding election-related news. Ballot proposals tend to be long and confusing. This is despite New York passing a plain language law last year requiring ballot measures be written at an eighth-grade reading…
What the competitive New York congressional races tell us
As I wrote a few weeks back, while New York is not in play when it comes to the presidential election, turnout will really impact the ballot races where control of the House will be determined. During the 2022 midterms, Democrats got so thoroughly wiped out in New York, particularly the NYC suburbs of Long…
Your Voice Matters: Affordable housing, caretaking, and immigration
The presidential election is just days away. As we’ve been telling you for the past few weeks, to help voters figure out how each candidate will impact their biggest concerns, we collaborated with local PBS station THIRTEEN WNET to produce three episodes of its digital series “Your Voice Matters.” We explored three topics: affordable housing,…
How this election could shape NYC’s housing crisis
Finding an affordable place to live in New York City is hard. Lines wrap around the block for open houses featuring apartments with rent less than $2,000 a month; Brokers’ fees can be tens of thousands of dollars for rent-stabilized apartments, and rental prices are at a record high. Unsurprisingly, a recent Siena poll found…
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