
Erin Durkin
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Reporter, New Yorker, curiouser and curiouser. [email protected]
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05-08-2009 02:09:23
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“It was 100 years ago,” Andrew Cuomo says of defunding the Advantage voucher program as governor. (It was in 2011, the same year same-sex marriage became legal - a proud accomplishment of his.) Janaki Chadha on the consequences of cancelling Advantage: politico.com/news/2025/06/2…

Zohran Kwame Mamdani is a great example of how far you can go if you genuinely center your campaign in an engaging way around the issue that voters overwhelmingly say in surveys they care the most about





NEW: The Neighborhoods and Groups That Drove Mamdani’s Seismic Win in the N.Y.C. Primary Pretty fascinating dive with the amazing Keith Collins nytimes.com/interactive/20…


indeed, Kathy Wylde told me she tried to calm the nerves of her anxious corporate members on today's call by reminding them only the state can raise taxes. Wylde finds Zohran Kwame Mamdani "smart" & believes the biz world's fears are partly from unfamiliarity: ebx.sh/JSQjCz



🚨NEW🚨 Zohran Mamdani has won the Democratic Primary for NYC Mayor. For New York Times Opinion I wrote about Mamdani’s historic coalition of the in-between: working, middle, and upper-middle-class renters spanning white, Hispanic and Asian neighborhoods. nyti.ms/4lqrfAZ



As Mayor Adams moved to skip the primary and run for re-election as an independent, he hired RFK's petition fixer, Trent Pool, to get on the ballot. Pool faces charges of assaulting his girlfriend in an upscale Manhattan hotel. Adams says he had no idea. gothamist.com/news/mayor-ada…

NEW: The general election is upon us. Joe Anuta with a great look at Mayor Eric Adams v Zohran Kwame Mamdani and what the frantic business class is trying to do about it all. politico.com/news/2025/06/2…