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Ranked Choice Voting In NYC is Succeeding Exactly as Intended
Even If Cuomo Wins, it along with campaign finance reform has created a City he won't be able to dominate like he did Albany
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Nathan Newman 🧭
SCOTUS Opens the Door to Blue States Fighting Child Labor in Red States
Blue states could potentially push up minimum wage & enviro standards across the country using new Court decision
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Nathan Newman 🧭
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Forget DC, the Trifecta Democratic States should Drive the 2024 Election Message
GOP has used state policy to drive national politics for decades; Dems need to use their Trifecta state to show what Dems actually do in office
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Nathan Newman 🧭
We Need to Be Angrier About State Taxes Than We Are
Progressives Tend to Focus Tax Fairness Debates at the Federal Level - but Tax Inequity in the States Poisons the Whole Debate on Tax and Spending…
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Nathan Newman 🧭
Medical Debt Relief Won Big in Arizona- and Should Have Been Part of National Dem Messaging
Beyond Abortion, Dems Needed More Local Issues to Define the National Election- and Medical Debt Relief Could Have Been One
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Nathan Newman 🧭
DeSantis Hates Local Democracy
If DeSantis Gets the GOP Nomination, his crushing of local democratic institutions in Florida should headline opposition attacks on his record
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Nathan Newman 🧭
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New Prospect Piece on How Regionalism Can Drive Affordable Housing - and a Summary of My Related Pieces this Past Year
If you want housing, the same people building transit and coordinating job creation need to be involved. And I link it to my overall writing on…
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Nathan Newman 🧭
New Nation Piece: The Withering Away of the States Can’t Happen Soon Enough
It’s time for a new federalism that brings suburbs and central cities together to promote equity, growth, and sustainability.
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Nathan Newman 🧭
Replace the MTA & Port Authority with a Democratically Elected Regional Government
State government undermining of urban power is not limited to red states; New York is a perfect example of a state govt long ignoring local transit…
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Nathan Newman 🧭
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