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Gov. Hochul thinks she’s found a popular issue in her push to lower car insurance rates, but the false premise of “affordability” is just “slopulism,” in the words of one activist.
Kevin Duggan has the latest entry in his growing Pulitzer 2027 portfolio as Streetsblog continues to lead the coverage of the insurance plan.
Meanwhile, we also have coverage of the carmageddon of Times Square. Op-ed writer Mike Gagliardi wants change!
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Motoclick admitted to paying workers between $3.67 and $4.67 per hour in May — less than a quarter of the city’s minimum pay rate of $22.13, the city said.
A single unmarked NYPD car has been nabbed by city speeding cameras hundreds of times over the past three years — but there’s no paperwork disputing the tickets as essential to police work.
The NYPD and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection have cracked down on stores that sell illegal electric two-wheelers, but the city isn’t doing anything about online sales.