Congressional Map Challenge Briefing Schedule; Even Year Voting Challenged in Federal Court; Cheektowaga Seeks Delay in VRA challenges, How NYC Voted Mapped; Upcoming events; VRA Preclearance; GOP ...
New Congressional Map Challenge; Board of Elections litigation, Stefanik Poll Challenged by Democrats; Register Now for the November 14 Statewide Census Organizing Conference; VRA Preclearance; ...
In this ongoing state voting rights action, plaintiffs allege that the Town of Newburgh’s at large method of election for Town Board members dilutes the voting power of Black and Hispanic voters in ...
Following the national attention on the politically-driven re-redistricting taking place in Texas and the legally required remapping in Ohio, New York is often mentioned as one state where the ...
Can New York Redraw Its Congressional Districts? As the Texas Legislature begins to meet this week to take up a partisan effort to redraw the state’s congressional map, California Governor Gavin ...
United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), joined by 17 Republican colleagues, reintroduced the Equal Representation Act legislation to ensure that only legal citizens are factored into the count for ...
For part two of Cityland’s candidate questionnaire on public space, we asked how the top Democratic mayoral hopefuls would reform the way New York City makes many land use decisions. [Read part one: ...
On Tuesday, March 18, 2025 the Center for New York City and State Law at New York Law School and the Citizens Budget Commission hosted the first 2025 NYC Comptroller Candidate Debate featuring Council ...
With the 2025 New York City mayoral race in full swing, CityLand sent a brief, initial list of questions to major contenders for the Democratic nomination to get an idea of where the candidates stand ...
On the same day last month that heavily armed federal agents gathered for a widely-publicized immigration raid in the Bronx, the New York City Hospitality Alliance sent out an email with the subject ...
The new year. A time for celebrations, for resolutions – and in Albany, for the launch of the State budget process. Far more than in most states, a year’s worth of policy making will get crammed into ...
This month the Mayor releases his Preliminary Budget, marking the start of the City’s annual budget process for the 2026 fiscal year that begins July 1, 2025. The City Charter, in Chapter 10, requires ...