Editorial credit: Rob Crandall / Shutterstock.com By Lincoln Mitchell | September 29, 2023 | The Conversation Democrat Dianne Feinstein, the 90-year-old senior senator from California, died on Sept. 28, 2023. Feinstein had an extraordinary political career that began when she won her first election only a few months after Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon. Then came the […]
Deliveristas rally outside New York County Courthouse ahead of a hearing about minimum app pay rates, Aug. 3, 2023. Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Claudia Irizarry Aponte | September 28, 2023 Judge affirms city rules mandating at least $17.96 an hour before tips for Uber, Grubhub and DoorDash workers, clearing New York as the first major […]
By Emma Winger | September 28, 2023 A recent Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision bars certain recently arrived noncitizens from becoming lawful permanent residents. In Matter of Cabrera-Fernandez, the BIA held that the petitioner had not been paroled into the United States when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released him from immigration detention. Without parole he […]
By Ruth W. Messinger | September 27, 2023 We are at a challenging moment in the ever-unfolding story of our city. But it’s actually a place we have often been before. The immediate challenge is, of course, the entry into the city during the last year of over 110,000 migrants fleeing oppression and violence in […]