Next year, New York state will have a new legislative map — and a new way of drawing it. Using the results of the 2020 Census, lines will be redrawn for seats in Albany and Washington — with New York losing one U.S. House member. The Independent Redistricting Commission is holding a series of public meetings to take comment on the process. Richard Rifkin, the legal director for the government law center at Albany Law School, has just published a redistricting explainer.
Over his many decades in public life, Richard Ravitch has worked in the private sector and the upper echelons of New York state government....
As former President Donald Trump continues to near his third Republican nomination, his sprawling legal troubles are playing out at the same time. It...
We speak with former New York state Senator Mike Martucci, the new Region 2 administrator for the EPA.