May 2026

The city’s Correction Department is set to renew a multimillion-dollar contract with a prison telecom giant that’s bragged of using recordings of detainees’ private phone calls to train its artificial intelligence model.   The Mamdani administration plans to pay Securus Technologies up to $23 million over five years for phone service used by roughly 7,000 people […]

Councilmember Vickie Paladino and the City Council settled their ethics feud over her anti-Muslim social media posts, with the Queens Republican agreeing to delete her tweets and remove any mention of her job on her personal accounts. The charges filed March 2 by the Council’s ethics committee were permanently withdrawn, according to a court filing.

Will New York State ever pass the budget that was due more than a month ago? And how is New York City supposed to work out its own budget, which it’s legally required to balance and pass by the end of June, without knowing how much money the state is providing? Podcast hosts Christina Greer, Katie