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Oct 4, 2024 | 
nydailynews.com | Michael Aronson
America is working: Excellent jobs report is good for everyone in the country
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
nydailynews.com | Michael Aronson
Sean “Diddy” Combs, charged with federal sex trafficking and racketeering crimes for allegedly forcing women to participate in wild and violent sexual performances he videotaped, was denied bail by Manhattan Federal Magistrate Judge Robyn Tarnofsky. Why? Because pretrial detention, or the lack thereof, works differently in the federal system than in New York State courts. In the federal justice system, it makes sense. In the Empire State’s justice system, it doesn’t.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
nydailynews.com | Michael Aronson
His Republican National Convention speech was billed as the debut of a Donald Trump changed by near-death experience, a man who sees the world differently and approaches politics more maturely. Gone would be the divisive demagogue, awakened would be a unifier. For the first chunk of the address Thursday night, you could almost see it in calmer rhetoric delivered in a softer tone.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
nydailynews.com | Michael Aronson
Having experienced in person the commemoration yesterday morning on the Far West Side for the signing of the $6.88 billion federal grant for the Gateway rail tunnel, we want to offer high praise for the official of the bistate Gateway Development Commission who moved the event from the northern side of 30th St. between 11th and 12 Aves. to the southern side.
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Apr 27, 2024 | 
nydailynews.com | Michael Aronson
Do they sell “Thank You for Nothing” cards? That’s what Mayor Adams and Chancellor David Banks should send to the Legislature after their too-clever-by-half maneuver extending mayoral control over the public school system, which some are counting as a victory for the city. What is broadly called “mayoral control” is not really that.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
nydailynews.com | Michael Aronson
Deliveristas know better than anyone how unsafe New York City’s streets and sidewalks are. Delivery work is the most dangerous job in the city, after all. During the pandemic, the use of e-bikes among deliveristas surged, enabling delivery workers to complete more orders in faster times. Today, millions of New Yorkers use delivery apps like Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats for fast, convenient food delivery.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
nydailynews.com | Michael Aronson
Like the sequel to a bad movie that no one wants to see, Americans are bracing themselves for a re-run of the 2020 presidential election. According to polls, 59% of registered voters are not enthusiastic about a rematch and 66% believe a president should not be more than 80 years old, a threshold both presumptive candidates would meet in their second terms.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
nydailynews.com | Michael Aronson
Sunshine Week, promoting transparency in government, started yesterday and runs until Saturday, timed to the . As they do every year this week, both houses of the Legislature in Albany will probably introduce and pass a bunch of different bills related to open government. There’s a chance, perhaps, that one of the bills will be passed by both the Assembly and state Senate and then be sent on to Gov. Hochul, who hopefully will sign it, but more likely little will become law.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
nydailynews.com | Michael Aronson
As you are reading this on the East Coast Monday morning, five hours ahead, at noon in Brussels, the flag of Sweden will be raised to join the banners of 31 other allies at NATO headquarters in the Belgian capital. In its 75 years, NATO has expanded from its initial dozen members that signed the treaty (Harry Truman among them) in Washington on April 4, 1949, with 20 more joining over the decades.
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Mar 9, 2024 | 
nydailynews.com | Michael Aronson
Last week, in response to the ridership’s fear of crime, Gov. Hochul announced the state will deploy 750 National Guard soldiers and 250 state troopers and MTA officers to the subways. This amounts to sending four Army rifle companies and an extra police precinct’s worth of troopers into the transit system. But to do what exactly?
