New York State
Opinion
Opinion: To confront the senior care staffing crisis, invest in what works
How proven models create equitable career paths for young people and grow the healthcare workforce
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s note: A subway train improvement creates a whole new breed of straphanger
Everyone going back-and-forth across the open gangways on the new R211T cars deserves the distinction of being called “Gangway Walkers.”
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Those who live in NYCHA can put an end to its corruption
An argument for the creation of Resident Management Corporations to manage the nation’s largest public housing system.
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s Note: Build affordable housing in the Penn Station neighborhood, not tennis courts and fashion runways
A proposal for a venue in the area that would host the U.S. Open and New York Fashion Week fails to address New York City’s greatest need.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: New York must protect the ACA
New York’s GOP members of Congress should reject Donald Trump’s promise to repeal this historic legislation if he wins the 2024 presidential race.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: New York should not make adoption harder for our residents
An argument for reversing a state regulation change that made it more difficult for New Yorkers to seek adoptions in other states.
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s note: It’s housing, stupid
New rental vacancy numbers should spur political leaders to act fast to build more units.
Commentary
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Commentary: Biden doesn’t have to pivot to hardline border politics
The president can alleviate the pressure on New York with a national resettlement plan.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Sexual assault survivors in NY, your DNA can be used against you
A new bill would stop the police from using sexual assault survivors’ DNA to implicate them in unrelated crimes.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Let’s make New York a leader for equitable digital infrastructure
We can’t allow aesthetic concerns with Link5G poles to stand in the way of closing the digital divide.
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s note: I want to be an Age Disruptor and inspire others
Here’s how New York power players 50 and over are defying stereotypes, age discrimination and encouraging new generations.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: New York needs more housing. There's a real solution on the horizon
Rather than just relying on private developers, New York state can set up a Social Housing Development Authority to build affordable housing itself.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Why Somos needs to stay in Puerto Rico
A relocation of the annual conference to the Dominican Republic would not align with the principles and values the event has promoted between New York and La Isla del Encanto.
Health Care
Opinion
Opinion: Medical aid in dying is a long overdue human right for New Yorkers
Terminally ill patients deserve the right to decide to end their suffering on their own terms and timeline.
Opinion
Opinion
Editor’s Note: New York City journalists boldly take a stand and keep their seats
Reporters at the Daily News staged a one-day strike over cost-cutting, while other reporters at a City Hall press conference ignored an attempt to make them stand.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Major oil, gas and coal companies must pay the staggering costs of the climate crisis
A call for including the Climate Change Superfund Act in this year’s state budget after “the worst” flooding since Superstorm Sandy recently hit Long Island’s South Shore.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: We can still make progress on housing affordability in 2024
Here’s legislation that can remove major hurdles to producing mixed income development and avoids further concentrating poverty.
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s note: Hornell is no longer overlooked as America’s high-speed rail manufacturing home
The tiny town in the Southern Tier is on a comeback building next-generation Acela trains as well as other trains for transportation systems across the country.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: To judge a society, look at how it treats its children
An argument for implementing the Raise the Age act.
Nonprofits
Opinion