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New gig. New “how to contact me” post.
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Professional news — excited to announce that today is my first day covering city hall for @nypost!
It’s been over a year without a byline and I’m beyond ready to start digging in.
Let’s talk. Tell me what I should and (especially) what I shouldn’t know: [email protected]
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At council hearing, @EricDinowitzNYC asks new head of Community & Ethnic Media office about what the city can do to bring back the Norwood News - no commitment /answer but its closure is from Montefiore, which said $211K/year was too much to spend on paper google.com/goto?url=CAESpwEB…
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Gov. Kathy Hochul, asked if she would entertain raising pay or changing outside income rules for state lawmakers before the end of the year:
"I haven't even thought about it yet."
After her 2022 win, lawmakers got a $32k pay increase.
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The NYS Democratic Committee transferred another $6.5 million to Kathy Hochul this month, new filing shows—bringing its support to $16.5M total.
This has been a useful setup for Hochul, since the party can take donations of up to $138,600 from individuals vs. $9K for candidates
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As the legal battle to determine who leads the party rolls on, Brooklyn Dems' executive committee received notice last night from AM Nikki Lucas – AM Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn's handpicked successor – that she was setting a meeting for Oct. 27 to vote on two new rule changes.
“so many people discovering that the whole Internet is dry tinder and the only thing keeping it from burning is the fact that teenagers haven’t found the matches yet”
wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known:
404media.co/php2shell-black-…
Matthew Fischetti retweeted
Sources: Big labor rally planned this weekend in Brooklyn Sunday with big name surrogates @ZohranKMamdani @NYHTC & @DC37nyc set to get voting members out for @KathyHochul.
Part of big kick off of Mayor-Gov stumping ahead of Nov. 3, first reported by @politicony
While the battle over the next Brooklyn Dems chair is still being duked out in the courts, Nikki Lucas is fundraising tonight as the “newly elected” chair
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Gov. Hochul says she plans to put more state $$$ to universal childcare in years to come — not ruling out tax hikes to do so.
"We're going all the way," she says. "Universal means universal, so I am committed to it... We'll make sure we have to do whatever it takes."
Matthew Fischetti retweeted
New: Before indicting him on corruption charges relating to a hotel, the feds were investigating whether Frank Carone, ex-Mayor Eric Adams’ longtime adviser, took roughly $600,000 in bribes from 13 companies, several of which were seeking city contracts. politico.com/newsletters/new…
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Remember Eric Adams' "NYC is the ____ of America" bit?
Almost 100 years before Adams, Jimmy Walker (the other scandal-scarred nightlife mayor) had a remarkably similar hit joke.
Walker said NYC had more Irish than Dublin. Adams called NYC the Dublin of America.
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I loved learning about Lisle Lester and the long journey to get her ashes back home to Wisconsin thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/…
“It’s a ridiculous system that New York has, where the public thinks that campaign contributions are enforced, when in reality, for Albany’s fat cats, they’re not,” he said.”
New: Kathy Hochul's still benefiting from Antonio Delgado's aborted primary challenge.
We found 363 cases totaling $2.6M where Hochul refunded donations she got for that primary—then got the money routed to the state party, which sent $10M back to Hochul.
nysfocus.com/2026/10/15/hoch…
"True transparency cannot be achieved by cherry-picking what information the public should see and when it should see it. While FOIL laws give agencies leniency to act faithfully and consider volume and complexity, they were not intended to provide loopholes to stall or avoid meeting a statutory requirement. The law was named “Freedom of Information” for a reason." amny.com/law/op-ed-mamdani-a…
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Now: “with NYU, New York City will invest nearly $30 million to bring a state-of-the-art quantum fabrication facility to life right here at 770 Broadway” says @NYCMayor
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Potholes are important but @NYCMayor can you maybe fulfill a basic FOIL request in under 2.5 years?
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Lobbyist who partied with Carl Heastie in Brazil has raked in small fortune - as Dem refuses to say who paid for trip trib.al/rrdRRpF
Via @Bcruznews: "The speaker ignored us as his press team tried to stop us from advancing. He got into the car, shut the door in my face, and drove away without answering" when faced with Qs about who picked up the tab for his b-day bash in Rio with high-profile lobbyist
Carl Heastie parties in Rio with high-profile NY lobbyist, ex-Dallas Cowboy - but no one will admit who paid trib.al/sm5hslz
Matthew Fischetti retweeted
Gov. Kathy Hochul, speaking to reporters after a meeting of the "FutureWorks" AI Commission, mentions that she was hosted today by Boston Consulting Group.
Her admin is paying the firm $20M in a contract entered into last month for "IT consulting services"
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“Our process is fair and it is not convoluted,” @AMBichotte tells @errollouis when asked if the way the @bkdems (and every county party probably for that matter) needs to be overhauled.
Says of herself: “you’re looking at a reformer.”
Not giving up district leader/assembly post
While the meeting was billed for 10a, Brooklyn Dems meeting still hasn’t kicked off with members still getting clickers. Bk Dems’ own signage misspells her name as Rodneyse “Bichoote Hermelyn”
Things getting notably tenser with some members challenging a slate vote, saying their proxies aren’t being included and pointing out other issues like identical names in the same slate — some are even blasting the meeting “fake”. Lots of boos/yelling/threats of kicking ppl out
