Here's the challenge: The only info you know is the following: The cost of each gate unit in the market ranges from $10-$50k. Now guess what NYC will pay for each one, including getting it installed and active?

They: 1. Oppose tariffs because of job losses 2. Oppose automation because of job losses If the free market is the answer to no. 1, why not no. 2?

Low-quality alligator trappers seems like one of those problems that takes care of itself.

This would be a good time to create the Legislative Budget Office Senator Liz Krueger has long championed.

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Can we please talk about how the taxpayer-funded Worker Institute at Cornell is sponsoring the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) May Day in NYC?

The high cost of energy in places like Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii, and Alaska is not an inevitability: it is the result of outdated policies that no longer serve the public interest. The Jones Act has become a barrier to energy access and affordability in noncontiguous regions.

"The delays have so far been deployed at over 70 stations...resulting in a roughly 40% reduction in gate evasion and a 10% drop in fare beating across the entire system, the MTA said." 👍

NY's interconnections with Quebec are maxed out this morning—that is, *exporting* as much electricity as possible.

"Not increasing federal debt to pay people in certain states to burn more fossil fuel" should have a larger constituency but alas 2025.

NEWS: Longtime labor leader George Gresham was overwhelmingly defeated in his bid for reelection as 1199SEIU💫 president, according to election results circulated overnight.

Seismic news for an organization that plays an unparalleled (and often damaging) role in New York politics and policy

Y'all thought this was a triumph for supersonic flight and capitalism but it's also a matsci W!

Using amazing technology that didnt exist 5 years ago to romanticize the poorer past of over 50 years ago. Chefs kiss.

NYS Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will run for reelection next year. He made the announcement in a fundraising letter,just received.“I’m seeking election again in 2026 to continue to serve the people as I’ve always done:w/honesty,stability&purpose,”the widely respected DiNapoli wrote.

Medicaid growing 3% per year is not a cut let alone a “sharp” or “deep” or “to the bone” cut. I know the federal budget is big and scary for non-wonks but can we please have policy debates that are remotely grounded in reality.

It's always the inefficient monopolies you least expect.