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Capital city of the State of New York, United States, and seat of Albany County
Zohran Mamdani is the newly elected Mayor of New York City, a 34-year-old Democratic socialist, Queens Assemblyman, and the city's first Muslim, South Asian, and Africa-born mayor. His background comb...
Both plans were contingency warbooks drafted in the interwar era: Canada’s Defence Scheme No. 1 directed audacious pre‑emptive “flying column” strikes into the northern United States to buy time for I...
Zohran Mamdani proposes a suite of tax changes to finance an ambitious agenda: targeted taxes on high earners and corporations plus a reorientation of property-tax burdens toward wealthier, whiter nei...
Zohran Mamdani was present for the first 41 of 71 New York Assembly session days in 2025 and was absent for roughly one-third of the chamber’s session days after the spring—making him the Democrat wit...
Defence Scheme No. 1 was a 1920–21 Canadian contingency prepared by Lieutenant‑Colonel James Sutherland “Buster” Brown that called for immediate, surprise cross‑border raids into the northern United S...
Zohran Mamdani ran on a compact set of ambitious, high-cost promises——and his campaign proposes to pay for them mainly by raising roughly $9–10 billion a year from high-earner and corporate tax increa...
Freemasonry counted a notable minority of Revolutionary-era leaders: multiple sources report that about 8–15 signers of the Declaration and roughly 13 of the 39 Constitution signers were Freemasons, a...
Zohran Mamdani, NYC’s mayor-elect, says making the city’s buses “free and fast” would cost about $800 million a year and he proposes paying for it partly by hiking the corporate tax to 11.5% and impos...
Zohran Mamdani was reported by multiple June 2025 news articles to have been , a statistic presented as the basis for the claim that he “did not show up for work 50 percent of the time” . Those same r...
Zohran Mamdani’s tax agenda centers on two headline proposals: a and raising the , both intended to fund expanded city services including free buses and universal child care. Supporters say the packag...
Zohran Mamdani’s public record and campaign platform center on , proposing rent freezes for stabilized tenants, fare-free buses, universal childcare, expanded subsidized housing, and higher taxes on c...
A review of reporting and datasets compiled in 2025 shows the largest localized surges in ICE arrests occurred in specific counties and metropolitan areas rather than uniformly across the country: Den...
The New York City mayor wields substantial agenda-setting, budgetary and administrative power to shape housing and social programs, but cannot unilaterally legally freeze rents across regulated and ma...
Zohran Mamdani’s health proposals lean on a mix of new local and state tax measures, targeted city spending priorities, and leveraging contributions from private hospitals — not on immediate federal r...
Dioceses worldwide implemented the Jubilee 2025 norms by translating Vatican guidelines into local pilgrimage sites, extended confession opportunities, and special faculties for confessors, while also...
Zohran Mamdani’s early political development was shaped less by a single marquee internship or institutional sponsor than by a mix of family influence, campus activism, grassroots organizing and early...
Zohran Mamdani ran and led a series of grassroots campaigns and organizing efforts before his mayoral run, from volunteering on local races to leading neighborhood environmental fights and building la...
Federal locality pay for Watertown, NY is governed by the Office of Personnel Management’s locality definitions and 2025 salary tables; Watertown falls into a New York state locality area rather than ...
New York state does pay for some non-emergency, ongoing health coverage for specific groups of noncitizen residents: since January 1, 2024 the state created a Medicaid option that allows undocumented ...
Zohran Mamdani’s rise in New York politics was supported by a mix of grassroots organizations, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)-linked networks, a large volunteer field operation, and close advi...