Fort Worth needs the work of these journalists. Local news is essential to the fabric of our society but companies like McClatchy and Gannett continue to devalue it with the way it treats journalists. National news outlets aren’t at your school board and city council meetings.

“He had gotten to the pinnacle of where he wanted to be in his life.” courier-journal.com/story/news/loc…

“free speech maximalist” (this was the Elon jet guy’s personal account)

NYC will gain only about 45,000 jobs in 2023, NYC Independent Budget Office now forecast. That’s less than half the 110,000 jobs the Independent Budget Office projected in May. IBO now says NYC won’t regain all of the jobs lost in the pandemic until the second half of 2024.

How a Windfall of Special Education Funding Benefited Hasidic Schools nytimes.com/2022/12/29/nyr… Brian M. Rosenthal

If New York State officials deem an urban area to be “blighted,” blocks can be bulldozed and people and businesses can be forced to relocate. That scene is set to play out around Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan. Congested and chaotic, sure. But blighted? nyti.ms/3jEcUGF

Manhattan has too much office space. Much of the World Trade Center & Hudson Yards are empty. Ten unnecessary office towers near Penn Station may render the area around Penn Station genuinely "blighted." nyti.ms/3VvbITc Matthew Haag Patrick The New York Times

MANHATTAN GRAND JURY VOTES TO INDICT TRUMP: nytimes.com/2023/03/30/nyr…

Gov Hochul counted on new supertall office towers to help pay for an overhaul of the "hellhole" known as Penn Station. Except the towers have been shelved indefinitely. Now what? (Lots of rival bids and soul searching, apparently) w/Matthew Haag nytimes.com/2023/04/13/nyr…

Demand for Manhattan office space fell off a cliff. Experts worry it could send the country into recession. nytimes.com/2023/04/25/nyr… Matthew Haag The New York Times

The Mayor Had a Photo of a Fallen Officer. Was His Story About It True? rb.gy/tj0lu

Big tech was a driver of New York City’s economy, especially coming out of the financial crisis. Now tech is pulling back hard — and starting to sublet offices. On A1 with dream team ⁦Julie Creswell⁩ ⁦Peter Eavis⁩ and ⁦Matthew Haag⁩ nytimes.com/2023/07/25/bus…

Police raid a newspaper office and the publisher’s home. This is a massive story. kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/pol…

Columbia, the biggest private landowner in NYC, saves $182M/yr by not paying property taxes. Their endowment is $14.3B. Read this great dive by Matthew Haag + Meredith Kolodner nytimes.com/2023/09/26/nyr…

F.B.I. Seizes Eric Adams’s Phones as Campaign Investigation Intensifies, with William K. Rashbaum Michael Rothfeld nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyr…

New York lawmakers will unveil legislation on Tuesday that would eliminate enormous property tax breaks for Columbia University and New York University: rb.gy/k88eg1

Political earthquake in NJ -->

"In 2006, the hulking office building at 135 West 50th Street in Midtown Manhattan sold for $332 million...On Wednesday, it changed hands again, in an unusual online auction — for $8.5 million." by Matthew Haag nytimes.com/2024/08/01/nyr…

NEW: NYC Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted. nytimes.com/2024/09/25/nyr…

Some personal news: I have joined The New York Times investigations team! nytco.com/press/tawnell-…