Big-City Mayors

It’s always been ugly, but now it feels more and more like bloodsport.

The Republican Party is fighting to dehumanize anyone they disagree with.

Blakeman's comments are unacceptable and unconscionable.

I thought the comparison likening Lander to a 'Nazi prison guard' was disgusting.

The 24 hours until they returned are among the darkest hours of my life.

I was bewildered and troubled, but tried to stay calm.

They should be worrying about what kind of ice cream they’re getting this afternoon, not why they are being brought into a meeting with a grownup asking strange questions or why their Papa is suddenly unavailable to read them a bedtime…

But this is the ugliest thing that has happened to me since my career in service began.

He’s equally at home deep-diving into housing policy and knocking on the doors of actual houses to hear from his neighbors about their lives and concerns.

Hannah Sabio-Howell is, like me, a renter in the 43rd, where three in four residents now rent their homes. She’s built her career organizing for stronger labor standards and workers’ rights. I know she’ll be an effective and energetic…

We’re at an inflection point in our city and our region. Voters are feeling a warranted frustration with the status quo.

There is strong pressure for elected officials to endorse fellow incumbents. It’s a way of maintaining relationships, part of the quid pro quo of governing. I understand this, but it’s not the way I want to do politics.

Even so, this is different.

Everyone knows politics is ugly these days.

A true minimum tax on billionaires — a modern Buffett Rule — that ensures the people at the very top pay at least the tax rate their own workers pay.

So here is what I support: A national billionaires’ tax.

But I’m voting no because this measure dedicates almost all of the revenue it raises to a single category of state spending.

I don’t know how much we can do about it, but so help me God, if there is any way to press civil or criminal charges over this, we will.

It’s not lost on me that this happened soon after we shared photos of our family on social media for Father’s Day.

“For twenty-four deeply distressing hours, we had no idea what I was accused of or what was about to happen,” Buttigieg wrote.

“Now imagine the same concept, but with Child Protective Services instead of a SWAT team,” Buttigieg wrote.

Money buys influence, and influence rewrites the rules. Those rewritten rules funnel even more wealth to the few. Under this weight, democracy itself starts to buckle.

We need to ensure every American owns a stake in the future being built by AI through a national public equity fund that takes a major stake in the new economy.

I understand the anxiety driving the wealth tax proposal in California. But I’m voting no because this measure dedicates almost all of the revenue it raises to a single category of state spending.