The controversial units have been responsible for high-profile killings and civil rights abuses in cities nationwide. Hochul doubled their state grant funding in New York — and wants to double it again. “It’s not like hotspot policing has actually succeeded in any long term crime turn around,” said Andrew Guthrie…

Apocalypse investors are pushing fake climate solutions on us that are making climate change worse. “What would make a difference is developing mass transport and substantially reducing car ownership; closing coal mines and ending oil and gas exploration; promoting decentralised and community-managed renewable energy systems; doing away with industrial-scale monoculture…

America’s wealthy used to pay taxes to support the nation. Now, they lend it money and collect interest from the rest of us. The wealthy used to pay higher taxes to the government. Now the government pays the wealthy interest on their loans to finance a swelling debt that’s been caused largely by lower…

“I found out about what happened to Tyre from other organizers, because, honestly, violence by police happens so much in Memphis that I feel it doesn’t even reach mainstream media oftentimes. Tyre’s untimely death was the fourth time someone had been murdered by police in the last two months, since…

Welcome back to the #WeeklyWonk. Each weekend I release an article on a subject relating to elections in Onondaga County and New York State. Often these articles will have detailed stats to consume but sometimes they will be a recap of a prominent issue or on relevant election law. I…

Over 150 Syracuse neighbors have voiced their frustration with their wallets, funding a billboard reading “Lift Syracuse Up. Bring I-81 Down.” that now sits over I-690W. “I wanted to do something to lift the voices of those in support of the grid instead of always hearing the false claims coming…

The governor faces growing opposition over her controversial pick to be the next Court of Appeals chief judge. Read it on City and State NY Contact Legislators Take Action Join the Fight for The Court NY Deserves. Important Update: Sen. Rachel May and several other Dem Senators have pledged to…

Instead of tackling inflation and corporate price gouging of the American people, Republicans instead want to expend their energy doing away with the Office of Congressional Ethics.  Read it at Washington Press

With pandemic-era rental housing regulations ending, renters will gradually return to more familiar conditions of tenant living in 2023.  Read it on Central Current

“…According to a groundbreaking new working paper by Carter C. Price and Kathryn Edwards of the RAND Corporation, had the more equitable income distributions of the three decades following World War II (1945 through 1974) merely held steady, the aggregate annual income of Americans earning below the 90th percentile would have…