Community Op-Ed: NYC Executive Budget

Community Op-Ed: NYC Executive Budget

Photo Editorial credit: lev radin Last week, the Adams Administration released our Fiscal Year 2024 Executive Budget. As President Joe Biden has often said: “Show me your budget and I will show you your values.” That is why this budget invests in our Working People’s Agenda, prioritizing education, jobs, housing, health care, and public safety. […]

Community Op-Ed: Making New York City the future for women’s health.

Community Op-Ed: Making New York City the future for women’s health.

Every New Yorker has strong women in their life. The women who birthed and nurtured them. Our mothers, sisters, aunties, and grandmas.  Our teachers, our doctors, nurses, engineers, scientists. The hardworking women who make life in this city possible and inspire us, We owe so much to women. Yet for generations, women’s health has not […]

Op-Ed: The Lopsided Politicization of Society—and Medicine

Op-Ed: The Lopsided Politicization of Society—and Medicine

By Jane M. Orient, M.D. Most Americans are aware that the nation is deeply divided, and that politics is intruding everywhere. They seem to think that we have two equal opposing forces, as shown by razor-thin majorities in Congress and in many key elections. This superficial appearance papers over a marked asymmetry in actual power, […]

Mayor Eric Adams’ Op-Ed: A Safer New York

Mayor Eric Adams’ Op-Ed: A Safer New York

New York City, NY USA November 21, 2022. NYC Mayor Eric Adams signs two legislative bills to help victims of domestic violence. (Shutterstock) While I was on the campaign trail, I met many New Yorkers who expressed their desire for a safer city. New Yorkers want to feel safe in their neighborhoods, at their places […]

Mayor Eric Adams’ Op-Ed: Action, Care and Compassion: My Administration’s Approach to Addressing Severe Mental Illness

Mayor Eric Adams’ Op-Ed: Action, Care and Compassion: My Administration’s Approach to Addressing Severe Mental Illness

NEW YORK – DECEMBER 6, 2018: Homeless man in front of Macy’s store in Midtown Manhattan. (Shutterstock) Our city is facing a crisis. New Yorkers with severe and untreated mental illness are living out in the open, on our streets and in our subways. They are in danger and need help, yet often, the nature […]