🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

would be the 2nd time in 3 years that Albany would allow the 7 suburban counties also served by the MTA to avoid helping pay for transit, instead putting the whole burden on NYC businesses

⁦.⁦New York Focus⁩ -> health administrators call the health insurance that Leading Edge and PPL are providing to home care workers as “garbage”. Fraudster-Linked Company Set to Begin Massive Home… | New York Focus nysfocus.com/2025/03/20/hom…

Jimmy Vielkind asks Governor Hochul about her proposed mask ban. “Do I intend to harass you?” “How would you know that, and would a law enforcement officer know that?”

NEW: There's a small, overlooked unit within NY's education department that is responsible for reviewing ~6K complaints of teacher misconduct each year. But it can sometimes take years to close out cases because of a huge backlog. New York Focus nysfocus.com/2025/03/26/new…

On the heels of Sam Mellins' reporting for New York Focus, the state Senate is seeking to strengthen consumer protections for New Yorkers.

One of Hochul's top consumer protection proposals this year has a big exception that would exempt companies like Verizon, Comcast, and Apple Music. The state Senate wants to close that loophole: nysfocus.com/2025/03/27/can…

After *years* of inaction, the NY Dept. of Health is moving forward with a life-saving program to boost kidney donations. It follows our recent reporting on their failure to act: nysfocus.com/2025/04/10/new…

Insurance co. Leading Edge once tried to cut off a coma patient's insurance using faulty paperwork. Now, they're slated to offer bare-bones coverage to thousands of low-wage NY health aides: nysfocus.com/2025/04/28/lea…

This is must read->

.Sam Mellins of New York Focus has more details on the apparently sketchy health coverage being offered to CDPAP caregivers by the new 1199-supported statewide contractor nysfocus.com/2025/04/28/lea…

Charities are required to disclose who they give money to. But the Modim Foundation — funded and run by health insurance execs now doing big Medicaid business with New York state — has given away over $4 million without IDing a single recipient: nysfocus.com/2025/05/01/jer…

Reporter's Notebook from Sam Mellins : The Modim Foundation is tied to a health insurer that will begin providing coverage to thousands of New York’s home health aides in May. It refuses to disclose where its gifts go, in a violation of tax law. nysfocus.com/2025/05/01/jer…

Next time you need to cancel a subscription, send Sam Mellins a thank you — it might be an easier process thanks to his reporting.

Hearing that Pope Leo's first act was to order that all pizza in the Vatican must now be deep-dish.

👀 “Evidence has mounted that (Congestion Pricing) so far is achieving its two main goals — reducing congestion and raising revenue for transit improvements — even as the federal government has ramped up pressure to halt it.” nytimes.com/interactive/20… via @NYTimes

What's in the state budget? Not zoning reform, says @NYSFocus. "As expected, this year’s budget did not include any significant measures to address the statewide housing shortage."

🚫🪑

Happy birthday Pete. Who’s the new boss? Is he like the old boss? Have you met him yet? Say hello to Roger.

new from me: the white house has initiated a review of the country's biometrics systems. the review is being conducted by the homeland security council, led by stephen miller fedscoop.com/white-house-is…

A Westchester County mayor helped rezone land he owned — dramatically increasing the value — then sold it to a housing developer for $2.9M nysfocus.com/2025/05/21/may…