Does anyone care how long people stay in prison? That’s what Carol Shapiro wants to know. In 2017, the longtime criminal justice reform advocate was appointed to New York state’s Board of Parole, ...
This article was supported by a grant from the Ridgeway Reporting Project, managed by Solitary Watch with funding from the Vital Projects Fund. This is a reported opinion article. Sara Kielly is an ...
More than 15,000 childcare providers across every county of New York were beneficiaries of the billions of federal dollars that President Joe Biden’s pandemic relief package injected into the industry ...
Eric Adams once maintained friendly relations with a nonprofit Turkish Cultural Center in Brooklyn. As a state senator, he met with its executive director in Albany. He attended the group’s annual ...
A planned highway expansion in the Catskill region championed by Governor Kathy Hochul would save drivers one to six minutes at a cost of at least $1.3 billion, according to a new study from the state ...
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