City & Region

Progressive activists have been insisting that the presumptive President-elect Joe Biden commits to using the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of solar roofing systems and to publicly guarantee that every home in America will be provided a government

The presumptive President-elect Joe Biden has already fielded phone calls from both former Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Senator Elizabeth Warren. Each politician made themselves available to serve as Treasury Secretary in the administration, though Warren is seen as the more

BY MATT WEIDINGER According to today’s jobs report from the US Department of Labor, the US unemployment rate in October fell to 6.9 percent, down from 7.9 percent in September. As the chart below shows, that progress continues to be

BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS What would the world look like today if it were nuclear-powered? That is the intriguing “what if” scenario explored by The Economist last summer. From the piece: In 1985 the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is enduring criticism inside his caucus for a string of election losses under his leadership, is unlikely to gain a majority in the chamber this year. But that isn’t stopping the Brooklynite from advancing

Rep. Brian Higgins is planning to run for Speaker of the House of Representatives, challenging Nancy Pelosi‘s grasp of the party at a time when severe election losses leave her weak and barely able to hang on to control of

A source inside the administration of Byron W. Brown is telling The Chronicle that — if federal stimulus funding for state and municipal governments isn’t made available before the end of the year — that he intends to market the

With Buffalo’s film industry potential on the rise, a new project to develop a 27-acre parcel into world-class studio facilities is headed to the city. Buffalo Studios CEO, founder and Grand Island native Matt Fleckenstein announced the project today at

After weeks of allowing the bill to sit on his desk following the Common Council’s ratification of the City of Buffalo’s new Duty to Intervene law — known widely as Cariol’s Law — Mayor Byron Brown signed it into law,

Stuck deep in a fiscal crisis that could force a 20% budget cut to restructure the City of Niagara Falls, Mayor Robert Restaino is unwilling to fund the construction of new canals and public spaces near Niagara Falls State Park.

BY BILL HAMMOND New York’s coronavirus infection rates have surged to their highest levels since May, pushing 10 counties – including Brooklyn, Rockland and Orange – above a threshold that the Cuomo administration uses to justify travel restrictions on other

BY E.J. McMAHON Well, that didn’t take long. Late Thursday, as hailed in this space, Mayor de Blasio finally made a decisive move—or at least seemed to make a move—in the direction of actually saving some money on labor costs by getting tough with a

BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS I’m always up for a good story about the now-defunct Soviet Union, and I sure like this one from the new book More: A History of the World Economy from the Iron Age to the Information Age by Philip

BY ANGELA RACHIDI While the academic and political case for paid leave advanced considerably in recent years, questions remain regarding how a national paid leave program would affect low-wage workers. Research shows that many existing paid leave programs in the

BY TOM FITTON China has for years sought to steal U.S. research, and the cost has been staggering. The Trump Administration has now taken action against this wholesale espionage, as our Corruption Chronicles blog reports. The U.S. government has finally issued an official

BY MATT WEIDINGER According to today’s jobs report from the US Department of Labor, the US unemployment rate in September was 7.9 percent, down from 8.4 percent in August. As the following chart shows, that’s significantly better than the projections issued by the Congressional

BY JAMES C. CAPRETTA AND SCOTT GANZ The global campaign to identify effective vaccines against COVID-19 has entered the final stage of testing for regulatory approval—Phase III trials—for several promising candidates. Evaluation will be guided by criteria established by the

BY E.J. McMAHON Further evidence of the massive damage done to New York’s economy by the coronavirus pandemic shutdown has emerged in the latest gross domestic product (GDP) data from the federal Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Affairs. Seasonally adjusted