For Once, Good News About the B.Q.E.

Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll get an update on sensors that can tell when trucks on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway are overweight. We’ll also get details on a guilty plea by a teacher at a Brooklyn prep school who was accused of soliciting lewd photos and videos from students on Snapchat. Almost no one ever … Read more

A Plan for Legal Weed Shops Failed. New York Wants Its Money Back.

In 2022, Gov. Kathy Hochul pitched a $200 million effort to help small business owners with marijuana convictions open New York’s first licensed cannabis dispensaries. State lawmakers approved $50 million to help the program, known as the Cannabis Social Equity Investment Fund, begin leasing and renovating stores that were supposed to open the following year. … Read more

Strikes in New York’s Prisons Were Declared Over, but Disarray Remains

At Adirondack Correctional Facility near the Canadian border, the job of delivering meals to hungry inmates fell suddenly to the prison’s superintendent and its teachers and counselors. At Auburn Correctional Facility in central New York, two ailing men died after not receiving medical care quickly enough. At Sing Sing Correctional Facility north of New York … Read more

Texas May Rename the New York Strip

Nobody knows how exactly how long ago a marbled and tender boneless short-loin steak came to be known across the United States as a New York strip. Everybody agrees, though, that the nomenclature wasn’t the least bit controversial until last Friday, when Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas proposed a new name: the Texas strip. … Read more