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Like Campaign Confidential, our new weekly email taking a look behind the curtain of the 2021 NYC elections? Share it with friends, colleagues and rivals and have them subscribe here! 6 months until the The newsletter is taking a week off next Tuesday for the holidays, but Campaign Confidential will be back in 2021. Did a friend share this with you? Subscribe here to make sure you get the next edition on Jan. 5. Nothing special about this election Tuesday’s special election to replace expelled former City Council Member Andy King in District 12 in the northeastern Bronx is the end of an era: the last special or primary election to be held without ranked-choice voting. But the city’s political establishment is hoping it’s ....
PUBLISHED 5:37 AM ET Dec. 21, 2020 PUBLISHED 5:37 AM EST Dec. 21, 2020 SHARE Companies that provide on-demand services through apps like Uber and DoorDash have formed a coalition ahead of a likely debate in Albany over regulations for the sector. The coalition, set to be announced on Monday, includes companies Lyft, Uber, Instacart, Postmates and DoorDash as well as advocacy organizations like the NAACP New York Conferene and business organizations The Long Island Association and the Business Council. The alliance comes amid efforts to regulate the industry in New York and amid concerns from lawmakers the companies have taken advantage of its workforce in what s known informally as the gig economy. ....
SHARE: For the past several years, City & State has closed out the year with a list of leaders in the private sector who are actively seeking to help New Yorkers and make our state a better place. It was a nice, uplifting feature that reminded us all that there’s more to life than making money as we brainstorm our own New Year’s resolutions. But 2020 was different. As we shut ourselves in our homes and lost family, friends and neighbors to a deadly pandemic, and as the federal government abdicated responsibility, it fell on state and local governments and private institutions to do the responsible thing and pick up the slack to help New Yorkers in their time of need. ....