Proposed congressional districts from a federal judge show significant differences from those drawn by state legislators
A deadline has come and gone for a promised peek at Andrew Cuomo’s attorney general records
A timeline of the redistricting process so far
It’s Sunshine Week – a time to ask how well government is living up to its obligations to make information available to the public. This year New York’s standards took a major leap forward thanks to a new enhancement to the state’s Open Meetings Law: public agencies are now required to release documents under discussion at […]
Redistricting splits Brooklyn’s Russian-speaking immigrants, some of whom see an attack on democracy and their own political advancement
Next time you use a mobile subway or bus schedule app, thank Sarah Kaufman, who brought the MTA into the era of public technology
A federal court is likely to draw district lines for Congress — including those for Rep. Charles Rangel, who until now has represented Upper Manhattan
Yesterday, the New York City Council passed the most comprehensive municipal open data bill in the country. Intro 29A will require all city agencies to publish public datasets online in machine-readable formats and provide APIs. The first datasets will be released a year from now and the process will continue through 2018. But this isn’t the first open data […]
Intro 29A requires city agencies to make information available for use in websites and apps — but not until 2018
Which cities supply financial data to tech developers? The office of New York City Comptroller John Liu recently revealed that it is developing Checkbook NYC 2.0, which would greatly expand on the information already publicly available via the Comptroller’s website on the city’s payments to contractors and other recipients of funds. As first reported in […]
