April 2025

At a Glance: April 1

APPLICATION DENIED: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejected an emergency application to stop the transition of the state’s consumer directed personal assistance program to a single broker ahead of an April 1 statutory deadline. On Monday, Sotomayor denied a bid from lawyers with Gibson Dunn & Cutcher who argued the state’s plan would remove the

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Trump’s cuts hit mental health programs aimed at the hardest to treat youth and adults

Federal cuts to the state Office of Mental Health could take an axe to parts of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signature mental health agenda aimed at reaching the children and homeless adults with the most severe untreated mental illness. The office is facing a $27 million reduction in federal grants under the Trump administration’s sweeping $12

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‘We Must Fight Trump,’ Comptroller Candidates Agree. Then What?

The two leading candidates to become the next city comptroller agree on what the major challenge will be: fighting Donald Trump and the Republicans who control Washington. “We have to fight back,” said Justin Brannan, City Council member representing Bay Ridge and chair of the finance committee and a key player in budget negotiations. “We

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MIPRONS’ space challenge: when water becomes the propellant of the future

Innovating in space propulsion by focusing on sustainability is at the heart of the mission of MIPRONS, an Italian company founded by Angelo Minotti in 2019, just months before the pandemic. Speaking to the microphones of ilNewyorkese on Claudio Brachino’s “Portraits” podcast, Minotti explained how his company is developing a revolutionary space propulsion system that

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TAKING AWAY PHYSICIAN APPEAL RIGHTS IS A GREEN LIGHT TO INSURERS TO NARROW PATIENT CARE NETWORKS

On behalf of 20,000 physician and student members of the Medical Society of the State of New York, and the hundreds of thousands of patients we treat each year, we thank the Assembly and Senate for rejecting within their respective one-House Budgets a proposal within Part E of the Executive Budget HMH Article 7 bill

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Favoritism tainted city’s Kingsbridge Armory redevelopment, bidder alleges

Favoritism and political influence tainted the city’s pick for a development team to transform the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx, according to a lawsuit filed Friday by a developer whose bid was rejected due to funding problems. Mayor Eric Adams’ administration announced in January that it had chosen Joy Construction and Maddd Equities to spearhead

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