This holiday season, as you gather around the table for a humbler-than-usual Christmas feast or put out that glass of milk for Santa, please take a moment to recognize the farmworkers whose labor produced your bounty.
December 10, 2020As Rudy Giuliani melts down – at times literally – in his desperate crusade to steal the election for his soundly defeated First Client, there has been much speculation about how “America’s Mayor” could have deteriorated into this spectacle.
December 4, 2020New York is reopening after months of COVID shutdowns and amid a national reckoning with racism and injustice. With reports of new spikes in infection, one thing is clear: We cannot police our way out of the pandemic.
November 3, 2020A pandemic, the abrupt transition to remote learning, missteps, confusion, delays, longstanding inequities. These all overshadowed the reopening of New York City’s public schools this fall.
October 9, 2020There is tremendous momentum to radically transform how we think about public safety and to re-examine policing in America. Disappointingly, the New York City Council just voted to squander this opportunity by approving a budget that allows the NYPD to conduct business as usual.
July 6, 2020
For the past two years, Rensselaer County has held a sad distinction. It is the only county in New York where the sheriff has handed over control of some of his officers to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
May 19, 2020