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Steven Sanders

New York Post

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Commentary: To preserve social programs, New York must spread out the burden

Commentary: To preserve social programs, New York must spread out the burden

Times Union photo by Lori Van Buren. The recently enacted federal budget is replete with hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to states. What...

14.08.2025 10

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Steven Sanders

Commentary: A vote against ranked-choice voting

Signs promoting Zohran Mamdani, state assemblyman and winner of the Democratic New York City mayoral primary, are passed out to union members ahead...

21.07.2025 4

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Steven Sanders

Commentary: Hochul sacrificed students' education for political gain

Demonstrators gather on the steps of the state Education Building in Albany on Oct. 3, 2022, to protest state oversight of yeshivas. The state...

29.06.2025 10

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Commentary: New York has the power to fix its late-budget problem

The New York state Capitol, May 6, 2022. The state budget is late again this year, by five weeks and counting. The process has been broken for a long...

07.05.2025 3

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Commentary: Being a state legislator is a full-time job

Exterior of the New York state Capitol on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. The reputation of the New York Legislature has suffered major blows over the past...

31.03.2025 3

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Commentary: Expanding involuntary commitment laws won't make us safer

Credit: Getty Images. After a number of well-publicized attacks and killings in the past year, particularly in New York City, involving people with...

31.01.2025 2

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Commentary: To improve school outcomes, pay teachers what they’re worth

Credit: Getty Images. With a combined local state and federal expenditure of over $80 billion each year and the highest per-pupil investment in the...

15.01.2025 3

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