From the Irish potato famine to the 1970s fiscal crisis, immigration has been key to the city’s growth in ways that are playing out again as asylum-seekers arrive.  Read it on www.thecity.nyc

“… a rogue federal appeals court has given life to a highly dubious lawsuit targeting DeRay Mckesson, a prominent figure within the Black Lives Matter movement. The … decisions would not only strip Mckesson of his First Amendment-protected right to organize mass protests against police violence, it threatens all Americans’…

The NYCLU received tens of thousands of records about civilian-police interactions (“stops”) from the Syracuse Police Department (“Syracuse PD”) after we submitted a Freedom of Information Law request.

“The workers walked off the job, calling on the county to address what they say is a staffing crisis within the department. Workers say other counties across the state are also dealing with worker shortages, but say those counties are providing pay raises, retention bonuses, sign-on bonuses and more time…

America’s post-9/11 wars have led to more than 4.5 million deaths, according to a major new report from the Costs of War Project at Brown University. Roughly 1 million of these deaths came from direct combat in war zones across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen, while the remaining 3.5…

New York is one of few states that doesn’t enforce lead-related EPA guidelines on these projects. New construction and renovation projects in Syracuse remain a concern for advocates fighting to contain and mitigate the threat of lead poisoning, especially as huge building projects like the Micron plant and the restructuring…

The proposals are part of a “participatory budgeting” program run by the Central New York Community Foundation. Through the program, residents were invited to come up with a solution that the foundation will then fund with $150,000….Syracuse has one of the worst lead crises in the nation.  Read it on Central Current

“The Russia-Ukraine conflict has presented the latest opportunity for profiteering off of war. The arms industry is certainly making big bucks, with policies that fuel the conflict with the selling of an array of weaponry. There are politicians who have bought stock in the arms industry just before Russia invaded Ukraine.”  Read…

“…during the Trump administration, a number of Democrats joined Republicans in Congress to weaken laws including Dodd-Frank, the landmark regulatory reform passed in the wake of the (2008) crisis. Executives from Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank were among those who successfully lobbied to weaken rules that may have prevented…

INDIVISIBLE has a new guide out: “A Practical Guide to Defeating MAGA,” here in PDF form. At just 19 pages, it’s their usual easy-to-read, hyper-local analysis.  Read it Here