Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: Legionella community outbreaks are hard. Politicizing them makes them harder.

When New Yorkers hear competing claims from elected officials, advocates, commentators and public health experts, it becomes harder to know who to trust.

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Opinion: Invest in low-barrier, high-trust drop-in centers

A naked client on 125th Street couldn’t remember much, but he could remember how our open door made him feel.

NYN Media

Opinion: Let’s treat our museums and libraries like soccer fields

Extending nighttime and weekend hours at the city’s cultural institutions would make the city better.

Editor's Note

Editor’s note: City & State’s new, revamped city team

Shenal Tissera is joining City & State, and Annie McDonough and Sahalie Donaldson have been promoted.

New York City

Editor’s note: The thrill of Olympic defeat

Let’s hope New York’s latest bid to host the Winter Games goes as well as the last one.

Healthcare

Opinion: The legal loophole robbing New Yorkers of mental healthcare

Patients on Medicaid should be able to have virtual appointments, too.

Education

Opinion: NYU must provide paid family leave for all

Adjunct professors should not have to choose between caring for loved ones and getting paid.

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Editor's Note

Editor’s note: My slightly scary upstate swing

It was great to meet political players in Syracuse and Buffalo – and stay in a haunted hotel.

Editor's Note

Editor’s note: Albany thrives on deadline

Our legislature’s part-time schedule and lawmakers’ productivity may, in fact, be connected.

Opinion

Opinion: It's time to end horse-drawn carriages in New York City

After crashes, deaths and chaos, the City Council must pass Romanch’s Law.

Opinion

Editor’s note: De Blasio talks to the Irish, Italians and Mamdani

The former mayor helped write the rules for the new era of populism in New York City.

Opinion

Opinion: End New York’s complicity with Israel’s war crimes

The Not On Our Dime! Act would prohibit New York nonprofits from abusing their NGO status to fund illegal Israeli settlement activity and war crimes.