Capping NYC school class sizes when student population is dropping is to help… you guessed it.

Update July 12, 2023: Co-Sponsor of S9460 (2021-2022) Robert Jackson asked the Independent Budget Office to do an assessment of the bill. its “unintended consequences” is likely 17,700 new teachers on top of the $6.4 billion pay increase. Maximum number of students allowed in each classroom is currently set between 30 and 34 students (kindergarten, … Read more

COVID Emergency not renewed, but there are still Monkeypox until September 27 and Polio until October 9!

The media got it wrong. Executive Order Number 21 is keeping her emergency powers alive! Be it polio, monkeypox (until September 27) or COVID, it’s politics as usual, not scientific reasoning. Governor’s own Executive Order 11.9 declares that the Emergency continues because the rate of new COVID-19 hospital admissions is above 100 per day. According … Read more

Comptroller Lander, focus on helping Ida victims instead of creating new penalties for landlords.

Your “Basement Resident Protection Law” is to empower tenants living in not-to-Building-Department-code basements to sue their landlord. You will make the current housing and homeless crisis even worse! Instead, the 1907 Holzhausen v. City of New York case should be overridden and the City’s infrastructure and building codes should be upgraded in anticipation of more … Read more