The Latest Breaking News from Brad Lander

NYC minority- and women-owned businesses losing out on city contracts

Rev. Reginald Bachus knows how hard it is to land a contract with the city as a Black business owner.

Tribune News Service · Mar 6, 2023

How Brooklyn's Much-Copied Diversity Plan Helped Throw its Best Middle School Into Chaos

After former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio changed the admissions rules at the school his kids graduated from, testing, safety, and excellence plummeted.

Reason · Jan 25, 2023

NYC Mayor Adams demands ‘national czar’ for migrant crisis — a job Vice President Harris is already supposed to have

NEW YORK — Vice President Kamala Harris may want a word.

Tribune News Service · Jan 18, 2023

New York still vulnerable 10 years after Hurricane Sandy, protesters warn

Storm in 2012 had devastating impact on US’s biggest city but insufficient government action risks a repeat, demonstrators say

The Guardian - US · Oct 29, 2022

Rikers Island Sees 17th Prisoner Death This Year

Is a federal takeover of the troubled jail pending?

Reason · Oct 24, 2022

Public Schools Experiencing 'White Flight'

Whether in response to pandemic closures or policy changes made in the name of "equity," people classified as white are fleeing government-run K-12 in startling numbers.

Reason · Sep 29, 2022

Rikers lapses contributed to 10 jail deaths in 2021 — report cites failure to check detainees, slow emergency responses, vacant posts

NEW YORK — An exhaustive report on 10 of the 16 deaths in 2021 in city jails details a range of staffing problems, systemic failures and mismanagement by jail staff that contributed to the fatalities.

Tribune News Service · Sep 19, 2022

Major credit card companies are making it easier to track gun sales

The move will likely provoke the ire of gun rights advocates and lobbyists, who have argued that categorizing gun sales would unfairly flag an industry when most sales do not lead to mass shootings.

WEKU · Sep 11, 2022

Editorial: Gradual improvement at Rikers not enough when lives are at stake

We commend New York City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Comptroller Brad Lander for their unannounced visit to the great shame off the coast of Queens: Rikers Island.

Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022

NYC officials demand credit card giants start tracing gun purchases: ‘Why would you not want to do this?’

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams and Comptroller Brad Lander are seeking to use the New York City government’s retirement investments as leverage to pressure the credit card industry into launching a system for tracing gun purchases, arguing that such a mechanism could help prevent future mass shootings.

Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022