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‘CAR’-Tastrophe: Big Tech is Secretly Behind Hochul’s Auto Insurance Rate Cut Push
Is Uber really interested in a more affordable New York?
January 22, 2026
Thursday’s Headlines: Affordability-Washing Edition
Gov. Hochul is pushing an Uber-backed campaign to lower car insurance costs at the expensive of victims. Plus more news.
January 22, 2026
Money for Something: Uber is Driving The Race for City Council Speaker
What does Uber expect to receive in return for $250,000 in donations to two Council Speaker candidates?
November 24, 2025
Delivery Workers Continue Push For Deactivation Protections
Delivery workers put pressure on the City Council to pass a bill that would give them "just cause" protections.
October 14, 2025
Under Pressure: Uber’s Navigation System Endangers the Public With Reckless Driving Directions
An Uber driver made an illegal u-turn and hit someone, but the in-app navigation told him to do it and the company won't give up the code.
October 6, 2025
Delivery Worker Minimum Wage Shows Promise … For Some, Data Shows
New data from the city's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection shows minimum wage is bringing order to a previously wild industry.
July 15, 2024
‘Buy, Bully, Bamboozle’: Report Alleges App Companies Threaten Democracy
App delivery companies seek to block worker-led improvements by spending big money on political influence, leveraging their data, and even co-opting progressive language, argues a new report that lands days before a national one-day strike by app-workers.
April 29, 2024
KOMANOFF: Mayor Adams Touts a Clean-Air Win that Hasn’t Happened
Here's what the TLC ― and the mayor ― overlooked when they decided to let thousands more Ubers and Lyfts onto our teeming, weary streets.
March 7, 2024
Delivery Companies Don’t Want to Supply Delivery Workers With Safe Batteries and Bikes
Bronx Council Member Oswald Feliz introduced the legislation, but the tech companies don't like it.
November 22, 2023
Komanoff: The Congestion Toll Solution That Could Have Been
Rest in Peace, 15-9-3. Let’s hope whatever toll rabbit the panel pulls out of the hat this month breeds contentment, not contempt.
November 16, 2023
