As Secretary of Transportation, I am aware of many concerns regarding the CBDTP pilot project. For example, in a January 20, 2025, letter to President Trump, which I reviewed, New Jersey Governor Murphy expressed significant concerns about the impacts that the imposition of tolls under the CBDTP pilot project is having on New … Read more
Dorothy Chin Brandt, a lawyer who in 1987 became the first female Asian American judge in New York State — and, as such, one of the first two Asian Americans in the state elected to public office — died on Jan. 27 in Queens. She was 78. The cause of her death, in a hospital, … Read more
Cynthia Erivo, the Tony Award-winning actress whose Oscar-nominated performance in the “Wicked” film has brought her wide recognition, will host this year’s Tony Awards. The American Theater Wing and the Broadway League — the two organizations that present the awards — announced on Wednesday that Erivo would host the ceremony on June 8 at Radio … Read more
New Bedford is, perhaps, best known for its rich maritime history. An important fishing hub since Colonial days, it’s renowned for its flourishing whaling industry of the 19th century. The city remains a major commercial fishing port. Prospective residents are increasingly drawn to New Bedford, where a price for a home is less expensive, on … Read more
The New York University chapter president of the College Republicans resigned this week, yielding to pressure from the national organization after she was prominently quoted in a Vanity Fair profile saying that Barron Trump, President Trump’s youngest son, was “sort of like an oddity on campus.” In the profile, published on Feb. 12, Kaya Walker, … Read more
New Bedford is, perhaps, best known for its rich maritime history. An important fishing hub since Colonial days, it’s renowned for its flourishing whaling industry of the 19th century. The city remains a major commercial fishing port. Prospective residents are increasingly drawn to New Bedford, where a price for a home is less expensive, on … Read more
That these characters are, as Hunter puts it, “versions of me had I not found offramps” does not make them less dramatically valid. In a way, as he has been discovering ever since, it makes them more so. If “A Case for the Existence of God,” from 2022, is about the struggle to have children, … Read more
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at a new effort by state regulators to stop people who manipulate the cannabis market using tactics such as trafficking illegal products into licensed stores. We’ll also get details on today’s court hearing about dropping the corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams. New York State regulators are beginning … Read more
Dale E. Ho ran the American Civil Liberties Union’s voting rights litigation department when President Trump’s first administration tried to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census. The question, he said at the time, would “wreck the once-in-a-decade count of the nation’s population” by intimidating immigrants legal and not. In his first appearance before … Read more
A federal judge on Wednesday is expected to scrutinize the Trump administration’s extraordinary attempt to abandon corruption charges against New York City’s mayor, a decision that shook the legal community and led to calls for the mayor’s resignation. The judge, Dale E. Ho, ordered the Washington prosecutors who sought a dismissal of the case last … Read more