@nick_garber @SallyGold Maybe they should pay attention to what’s happening in Albany. One of the largest benefactors of @GovKathyHochul push to reign in litigation abuse would be NYC which spends $2B/year on legal settlements.
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Josh Gold
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Josh Gold
@JGoldny
@Uber Public Affairs - formerly @nyhtc political director, Universal Pre-K pusher, NYC comptroller counsel, @1199seiu & many campaigns.
NYC Katılım Mayıs 2013
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@SallyGold it's debatable whether, as the mayor says, the only option is raising taxes. But it's true that watchdogs + ratings agencies agree the city needs long-term, structural changes to its budget, and the council's document doesn't have much of those.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Speaker Julie Menin’s preliminary budget proposal would result in slashing billions of dollars from agency budgets, which would force the City to cut services. Double counting previously identified savings, overestimating revenues, and exaggerating debt service savings does nothing to close a deficit. This $6 billion proposal asks Albany for just one action – class size mandate relief. It refuses to address the deeper structural imbalance between the City and the State, or to increase taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and most profitable corporations. It effectively ensures this structural deficit will continue indefinitely. Any proposal that claims we can close this gap without significant new revenue is unrealistic.
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in fact Menin just emphasized, after being pushed by @SallyGold, that she doesn't think NYC needs to cut any services/programs whatsoever — only find budget savings. Some budget watchdogs would disagree
Chris Sommerfeldt@C_Sommerfeldt
The heads of NYC's Democratic Socialists of America chapter, who back Mamdani's push for tax hikes this year, are out with statements blasting Menin's plan. (Menin's plan isn't actually proposing cuts, tho the efficacy of some of its savings measures can certainly be debated).
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Uber expansion at 3 World Trade Center a boon to local economy nypost.com/2026/03/26/bus…
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Josh Gold retweetledi
NYC is central to @Uber’s future 🗽
Excited to deepen our commitment to the city with a big expansion at our 3 World Trade Center offices to nearly 500k sq ft. We’ve grown from 800 local employees pre-pandemic to 2,000+ today, and intend to keep expanding our headcount. 📈
We’re also investing in the next generation of talent, arts, & culture through new partnerships with @cuny, @nysci, and PAC NYC.
NYC is a global hub for innovation and we're proud to be building here 🏙️ ✨
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Come on, dude. We've explained this to you over and over again. People ride the Citi Bikes to their destinations and then park them at docks. Then you guys take pictures of them while they're parked and ask why no one is using them.
Sam E. Antar@SamAntar
Citibikes remain idle on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in NYC. It’s 66 degrees outside. What’s today’s excuse?
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Editorial: Auto insurance rates need reform riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com/2026/02/132141… via @thesuffolktimes
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Not True. Dinkins released a serious plan on the last day of his administration ~33 years ago.
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Arpit Gupta@arpitrage
Neither the Adams nor the de Blasio property tax reforms would fix the inequitable treatment of rental housing. We have yet to see a serious plan which would do so
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Josh Gold retweetledi
NY drivers pay among the highest car ins premiums in US—yet insurers are still losing money. How?! Take a look at our liability rules & no-fault coverage, argued @seancampion in testimony supporting @GovKathyHochul’s common sense reform proposal. We can do better, at no cost to the State.
cbcny.org/advocacy/testi…
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Josh Gold retweetledi
REV. AL SHARPTON RESPONDS TO NY GOVERNOR KATHY HOCHUL'S PLAN TO BRING DOWN COSTS OF VEHICLE INSURANCE RATES
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Josh Gold retweetledi
99.9% of New Yorkers have no idea what their State Legislature does all day.
So @matthewlwing and I built smithmoses.com to ruin that. 🧵
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“He bought a Kia EV9, an electric SUV, last year with financial help from Uber. The car’s battery lasts a full 10-hour shift, he said. And it costs him $20 to $40 less to charge the car than refueling the gasoline vehicle he previously owned.” nytimes.com/2026/02/18/bus…
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Uber Will Offer Incentives for E.V. Charger Construction nytimes.com/2026/02/18/bus…
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Josh Gold retweetledi
.@MarkLevineNYC is putting his finger on something important:
Home care - which is mostly funded by Medicaid and Medicare - accounts for two-thirds of New York City's job growth over the past decade
Mark D. Levine@MarkLevineNYC
Job creation in NYC has come to halt outside of a single category: "Healthcare & Social Assistance" (specifically home healthcare aids). Excluding this, we lost 38k private sector jobs here over past year. This is the other half of the affordability crisis. Reversing this trend is an urgent priority.
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Been stuck here for over an hour. There is a reason these aren’t allowed in NYC @illegal53NYC
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Great @JoeBorelliNYC op-ed but left out one corpse, Dinkins. His last day report also focused on renters - who pay the most in property taxes, subsidizing homeownership. Fixing that too means middle class homeowners get less relief. nypost.com/2026/01/26/opi…
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“For years, law enforcement has been hampered by a legal loophole: it is relatively easy to charge the person behind the wheel, but notoriously difficult to take down the “kingpins” who organize the scheme from the comfort of an office.”midhudsonnews.com/2026/01/30/the…
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Josh Gold retweetledi
New Yorkers pay the highest auto insurance rates in the nation.
Not because of bad driving, but because fraud and runaway lawsuits jack up prices.
This is the year we put the brakes on it.
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Mayor Mamdani says he was excited not only by Gov. Hochul’s childcare pledge but also by her proposed reforms to SEQRA to build more housing, and efforts to lower auto insurance premiums
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Josh Gold retweetledi
For families trying to make ends meet, these costs add up fast. New Yorkers shouldn’t be paying the highest auto insurance rates because of fraud and runaway lawsuits. It’s time to put the brakes on this and bring real relief to drivers.
Governor Kathy Hochul@GovKathyHochul
New Yorkers pay the highest auto insurance rates in the nation. Not because of bad driving, but because fraud and runaway lawsuits jack up prices. This is the year we put the brakes on it.
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Only got part of a line , but this will be a critically important part of Adams’ legacy -“moving the city toward phonics-based literacy instruction.” Perhaps the most important if @ZohranKMamdani builds on it. nytimes.com/2025/12/23/nyr…
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