"Non-platform" issues come to the Mayor's attention every single day. "What will the candidate do once in office about X, Y, or Z?" is not an unreasonable inquiry. We tried to get answers to 13 questions; the Mamdani campaign didn't respond. www.remappingdebate.org/article/ludi...

If you believe that President's Trump's actions are horrifically consequential, doesn't that mean that those actions will have . . . consequences? From @knecessary.bsky.social. www.remappingdebate.org/editorial-ca...

Sought answers from Cuomo campaign to basic Qs arising out of @errollouis.bsky.social/@andrewcuomo.bsky.social walk & talk. remappingdebate.org/article/cuom.... Specifics on how Cuomo sees NYC-run rent reg working to help tenants? Does he really want to open all valves to construction? No dice.

Remapping Debate (remappingdebate.org) is looking for a highly experienced reporter or three to do freelance pieces for us from time-to-time. They’d be deeply reported stories generally ranging from approximately 2,500 to 3,500 words for which we’d pay $1.25 per published word. 1/4

Remapping Debate's 80-minute audio interview w NYC mayoral candidate @jimfornyc.bsky.social. He's a genuine regulation-skeptic. I focused on probing his housing plans. Education, civil rights, consolidation-of-field also discussed. Some excerpts follow. 1/5 www.remappingdebate.org/article/wald...

My first look at the new @slingshotstrat.bsky.social poll. www.remappingdebate.org/article/win-...

Remapping Debate has just published the full text of Eric's campaign kickoff speech. Annotated to help you decode it. If you didn't know, NYC "is not a city of socialism." And what the Mayor didn't say may be as important as what he did say. www.remappingdebate.org/article/full...

K-12 platform of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on his website: It's 171 words in all, most of which don't have to do with what goes on in the classroom. And it's strikingly devoid of planks addressing deep-rooted problems. How will he fill in the blanks? www.remappingdebate.org/article/how-...

This won't draw 👀 like "how hot is Zohran?" does, but, OTOH, it has a lot more to do w what either he or Cuomo will be able to accomplish (or block). Pay more attention to Council's role. It can be quite consequential, as with City of Yes. My latest. [RD] www.remappingdebate.org/article/city...

I can confirm that you can search through the by-laws of every Junior High School student government and not find any such requirement. Is that the standard by which one really wants to abide?

New reporting from Remapping Debate: A large % of municipalities in Westchester & Nassau Counties aren't participating in Gov. Hochul's "Pro-Housing Community" program, especially those with lowest percentage of non-Hispanic Black residents (3% or less). www.remappingdebate.org/article/hoch...

Make America Healthy Again? The administration is conscientiously pursuing precisely the opposite agenda. @knecessary.bsky.social's editorial cartoon, only in Remapping Debate. 1/2 www.remappingdebate.org/editorial-ca...

Last night's debate: fine work from MelissaRusso and SallyGold. Education portion: too many below proficient and well below proficient answers. (Education-section transcript accompanies commentary.) www.remappingdebate.org/article/mayo...

Here's an aspect of former Governor Cuomo's record that has gotten zero attention so far (from Remapping Debate's archive, originally published 2013). 1/2 www.remappingdebate.org/article/out-...

There's a lot that doesn't add up, at least if voters want to be able to make informed choices. Many substantive issues remain unexplored or underexplored, and the rhetoric often doesn't match what the winning candidate would be able to do as mayor. www.remappingdebate.org/article/cent...

Luxury condos keep rising w ZERO condo units dedicated to affordable hsg rentals. Huge potential cross-subsidy wasted. New preservation law suggests mixed-condos can work for new construction, too, w/o subsidizing mkt units. But not on radar of NYC candidates. www.remappingdebate.org/article/mark...

Trump and the GOP Congress cutting an already depleted federal civilian workforce. Data vizes covering 1978-2004 showing federal executive branch employees -- adjusted for growing population of the country -- demonstrate the point. www.remappingdebate.org/map-data-too...

The "Affordable Housing Retention Act," passed recently as part of the 2025-26 NYS budget, is focused on housing preservation, but it models tools that might be applicable to new construction, too. www.remappingdebate.org/article/mark...

Even before any Trump or GOP Congress cuts this year, overall executive branch civilian employment as adjusted for population is materially down from its peak. www.remappingdebate.org/map-data-too...

Our editorial cartoonist, @knecessary.bsky.social, takes a look at some recent American trends. www.remappingdebate.org/editorial-ca...

There's an economy to ruin, a social safety net to shred, alliances to break, anti-discrimination laws to disavow, public health to poison, and a Constitution to defy, but President Trump still has time for some of his other dreams of the good old days. www.remappingdebate.org/editorial-ca...

Trump's already executed and planned assaults on NYC have been rightly described as emergencies w/o modern parallel. So business-as-usual policy planning out the window, yes? But mayoral candidates are not facing up to local consequences of Trump budget cuts. www.remappingdebate.org/article/do-t...

When undermining clean-air regulations just isn't enough. emappingdebate.org/editorial-cartoon/operation-warped-deed

50 questions, actually (not including subparts). With a bunch of "why?" and "why nots?" Taboo breakers, too. Don't worry, though: I've thrown in some easy ones. remappingdebate.org/article/few-questions-id-love-nyc-mayoral-candidates-answer

Lyric of the week: "Keep My Heart In Mind," Kieran Kane & @raynagellert.bsky.social, off their "Volume 4" album. www.remappingdebate.org#lyric

Cuomo: re-expand segregation-perpetuating, outsider-restrictio policy in NYC's affordable-housing lotteries. EXCLUSIVE DETAILS on where & how he gets his facts & premises wrong. (This part of his plan is not ChatGPT.) [RD] remappingdebate.org/article/cuomo-seeks-reinvigorate-housing-segregation-nyc

How white is Medicaid in Trump country? Put aside stereotypes and look at the data viz. 1/2 [RD] www.remappingdebate.org/map-data-too...

After a long hiatus, Remapping Debate is back . . . and we're inside the Cuomo campaign. 1/2 [RD] www.remappingdebate.org/editorial-ca...

New editorial cartoon by @knecessary.bsky.social out today in remappingdebate.org: Big Law exposed. Click to see the cartoon in all its full-sized glory. www.remappingdebate.org/editorial-ca...

From the remappingdebate.org archive (2011): Andrew Cuomo claimed he was helping tenants, but he left them worse off than they were originally under George Pataki. remappingdebate.org/article/gov-cuomo%E2%80%99s-faux-victory-behalf-nyc-renters

Not formally relaunching remappingdebate.org until 4/9 (please do subscribe now -- forever free -- here: www.remappingdebate.org/subscribe), but we thought we'd restart our Lyric of the Week feature. This week: @eliza-gilkyson.bsky.social's new "Dark Night of the Soul": www.remappingdebate.org#lyric

In transferring Mahmoud Khalil’s case to New Jersey — not Louisiana, as the DOJ sought — Judge Furman said it wasn’t his fault it was filed in the wrong district, that “his lawyer reasonably relied on the information made available to her by the Government”

According to former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, court-appointed amicus in Adams case, "all roads" lead to conclusion that charges should be dismissed -- and with prejudice. But is that true? Has Clement fairly presented facts and law. A 🧵. 1/10 www.remappingdebate.org/did-paul-cle...

Judge in Eric Adams case was relying on former Solicitor General Paul Clement to help guide his decision on whether to grant the motion of Trump's DOJ to dismiss charges against the Mayor. Did Clement let him down? We mark up the brief EXTENSIVELY. [RD] www.remappingdebate.org/did-paul-cle...

Another Cuomo travesty you've probably forgotten about. Ever wonder why there weren't "NYStateofHealth" plans with out-of-network coverage? Explicit decision of his admin. From the remappingdebate.org archive (we're formally re-launching on April 9th). www.remappingdebate.org/article/out-...

remappingdebate.org isn't re-launching 'til 4/9, but we had to get this out now. Judge Ho's job in Adams case: to grant Trump DOJ's motion to dismiss or not. He's relying on brief from his appointed amicus, Paul Clement. But Clement hasn't played it straight. remappingdebate.org/paul-clement... [RD]

NYT weirdly silent on fact coop disclosure bill -- co-sponsored by majority of City Council & supported by a who's who of civil rights orgs -- hasn't been able to get a hearing. It's resisted by 4 limo liberal Manhattan CMs, who refused comment to @davidfbrand.bsky.social. 1/2 @maragay.bsky.social

[email protected] is 1st Speaker w fair housing as priority. She wants home ownership more widely & equitably available. Intro 407 helps both goals, but bill, w 29 sponsors, is stalled (not "going through the legislative process"). Why? 1/3 gothamist.com/news/many-ma...

Not standing w majority of your Council colleagues nor w 73% of Manhattanites supporting coop disclosure? You're no progressive leader. Disqualifying for @keithpowersnyc.bsky.social (running for BP) & Julie Menin (harboring hopes of Speakership). gothamist.com/news/many-ma...

[email protected]: $ penalties of disclosure bill would discourage qualified people from serving. Fact: bill doesn't impose those penalties on individuals. She used to be more candid: "The boards would kill me." Defending secrecy & privilege ain't progressive. gothamist.com/news/many-ma...

The Manhattan limousine-liberal brigade: of course we'll fight Trump at every turn, but make our own fair housing law effective in co-op context? "No comment." @davidfbrand.bsky.social on the Feckless Four. gothamist.com/news/many-ma...

Delighted to learn NYS has no need to repair or build any hospitals, schools, housing, etc. So it doesn’t bother me that Kathy Hochul is pulling a $3 billion stunt (that will help her in 2026 as much as her flip-flop-flip on congestion pricing has). www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/n...

A continuing shame of NYC is that, by any measure of school academic performance, huge numbers of students are doing terribly. It’s a 5-alarm fire, but no one — neither electeds, the NFP-industrial-complex, the press, nor the new Chancellor — treats it as such. That’s a story begging to be written.

As Democrats recalibrate, there’s this peculiar (but widely held) belief that means ONLY going “right,” “left,” or “center.” In fact, recalibration allows any and all. So in push for moving to “the center,” I’m hoping there’s room for things like reducing age of Medicare eligibility to 55; 1/3

I started out on burgundy/ But soon hit the harder stuff/ Everybody said they’d stand behind me/ When the game got rough/ But the joke was on me/ There was nobody even there to call my bluff/ I’m going back to New York City/ I do believe I’ve had enough Special treat: “1974 Live” recordings of it.

NYC officials and local not-for-profit industry vow to meet all attacks from Trump! A+ for rhetoric. But, in an all-out legislative, regulatory, and judicial war, what’s needed is the judgment to be able to prioritize, to triage. All can’t be saved. [Applicable across the U.S.]