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New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has moved quickly to prioritize tenant protections and affordable housing, re-establishing and empowering a Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants and signing mul...
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...
The New York court system processes felony cases for high-profile individuals through the same formal criminal procedures that apply to any defendant: arrest, arraignment, prosecution, discovery, pret...
Several political and community leaders opposed organizations that endorsed Zohran Mamdani, or publicly withheld support from him, creating visible splits during and after the 2025 New York mayoral ca...
Dearborn’s Arab American community is central to the city’s identity: new Census figures show people of Middle Eastern or North African ancestry are a majority (54.5%) in Dearborn, and the city hosts ...
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...
The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) is a New York City law that gives certified community-based nonprofits and similar “qualified entities” a prioritized, often exclusive, right to purcha...
Seattle in late 2025 is a city of contrasts: grappling with emergency responses to climate-driven flooding after a levee breach while navigating local politics, public safety concerns, and cultural re...
Katie Wilson defeated incumbent Bruce Harrell in the November 4, 2025, Seattle mayoral contest and was declared the winner with roughly 50.2% to 49.5% of the vote after nearly 280,000 ballots were cou...
Zohran Mamdani is the projected winner and mayor-elect of New York City following the November 4, 2025 mayoral election; multiple contemporary reports describe him as a 34-year-old democratic socialis...
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams sponsored and advanced a mix of tenant-protection, criminal-justice reform, and small-business support laws during his term, with notable victories including the (pass...