The New York State Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials has a new executive director. Barbara Van Epps replaces Peter Baynes, who retired this spring after 17 years. Van Epps began in mid-August and has been with NYCOM since 2006. She previously spent more than a dozen years working for the New York State Division of the Budget’s Local Government Unit.
Over his many decades in public life, Richard Ravitch has worked in the private sector and the upper echelons of New York state government....
We speak with Mass. Rep. Jim McGovern, a progressive Democrat from the 2nd District who is fiercely opposed to the "big, beautiful bill."
The Oscars Sunday night is being hailed as a return to normal after last year’s pandemic-muted ceremony. But most of the pre-show attention has...