Redistricting Committee Rejects Council Maps + Brooklyn Democratic Party Chaos
No. 289 | Monday, September 26, 2022
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Local News
The New York City Districting Commission rejected proposed City Council redistricting maps. Set to be implemented next year, the maps had provoked outrage from a number of ethnic and political communities across the city.
A City Council bill would make it so corporations that are repeatedly in violation of the Fair Work Week Law would lose their license to operate.
A local of DC37, the city's largest municipal workers' union, was put under administratorship by AFSCME after union members made complaints that revealed severe financial mismanagement.
Mayor Adams has scaled back plans set in place by his predecessor to expand preschool for 3-year-olds to all New Yorkers.
Transit advocates rallied for service improvements outside of Barclays Center, calling for six-minute bus and train service at all times.
Queens residents and transit advocates are questioning the recent Queensway announcement along an abandoned railroad corridor, asking if reintroducing transit service would have been a better decision.
A proposed bill in Albany would guarantee legal help to low-income New Yorkers who face deportation or detention hearings.
NYC officials have appealed a judge’s ruling to reinstate unvaccinated police officers.
City Council is considering legislation targeting improving internet access in an attempt to bridge the “digital divide.”
In the last fiscal year, more New Yorkers were approved for affordable apartments through the City’s affordable housing lottery system. However, the average wait time for approval also increased.
NYCHA officials were grilled at a City Council hearing for a lethargic response to complaints of cloudy water and possible arsenic contamination.
Sewer backups doubled in NYC in the last year, under strain from increased rainfall as a result of climate change.
Elections
A big meeting of the Brooklyn Democratic Party devolved into chaos, and ended without holding a previously scheduled vote to re-elect party boss Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn.
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