NYC politics
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1 day agoLegislature votes to roll back NY's landmark climate law
New York will replace a 2030 greenhouse-gas emissions mandate with a non-mandatory 2040 goal framed as feasible and cost-effective.
Wednesday's budget discussions resurfaced tensions over police funding, particularly after a few councilors threw around the word "defunding" to describe the shift of an extra $2 million from the Portland Police Bureau's budget to the parks bureau. Councilors Angelita Morillo and Candace Avalos chastised their colleagues who used a boogeyman approach to drum up public fear over the move. "I'm not interested in slogans that are just trying to make political tension out of what is a fiscal responsibility," Avalos asserted.