Residents near the High Acres Landfill want the courts to enforce their “right to clean air and water, and a healthful environment,” but Attorney General Leticia James has argued in an appellate brief that those rights can’t be enforced without enabling legislation.
‘She’s one of the brave ones.’ Yuh-Line Niou’s outspoken leadership style
She came to the Legislature as an insurgent, and she hasn’t lost that attitude. Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou from Manhattan has garnered attention and risen in prominence as a leading progressive voice in the Legislature. Mengwen Cao The must-read daily newsletter for NY s political community. Get it in your inbox.
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After a day of meetings, Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou arrived for an interview at Manousheh, a Lebanese restaurant on Manhattan’s Lower East Side on a warm June afternoon, flanked by a few staffers. At the time, some of the biggest issues were with small-business owners looking to her office for guidance on changing regulations. “We do a lot more running around more often than when we’re in session, my crew never stops,” Niou said. Before getting started, she said she wanted to buy her staff some ice cream, to wh
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As the coronavirus pandemic tested the viability of New York’s health care system, Gov. Andrew Cuomo turned again and again to Michael Dowling. The governor has worked closely with the leader of Northwell Health, New York’s biggest employer, relying on him as his chief intermediary with New York’s hospitals, naming his longtime ally to a panel to “reimagine” New York in the wake of COVID-19 and even making a Northwell nurse the first American to receive a coronavirus vaccine.
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Cuomo’s COVID-19 Task Force
Gov. Andrew Cuomo wasn’t the only state government official to build his celebrity thanks to his daily COVID-19 briefings that captivated the nation. Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa was at his side – socially distanced of course – along the way, while also heading up a coronavirus maternity task force. Also along for the ride were another former Cuomo secretary, Larry Schwartz, who resumed his role as behind-the-scene