New York City is full of ne'er-do-wells, crumb bums and good-for-nothing power brokers who would love nothing more than to keep the voices of working people silenced. This city requires a bustling, competitive media landscape to keep them in check. This contract helps.

The dirty little secret about the Daily News under Alden is that it's profitable. Heath Freeman, the hedge fund's owner, has kept the newsroom closed, sold the printing plant and let jobs die through attrition. He's wrought terror on the city's civic infrastructure.

Alden spent huge sums of money on white glove law firms to fight this union, while allowing the newsroom to rot. Their fight isn't over, but this contract sets a terrific precedent to bring more resources to not just the Daily News, but to Alden-owned newsrooms everywhere.

This is the first CBA the for the paper's newsroom in 34 years. This is by all measures a historic accomplishment.

When we formed this union five years ago, we aimed to safeguard against the wrath of Alden, a hedge fund notorious for scrapping newspapers for parts.

Trickle down socialism?

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Mayor Adams hires Bronx election lawyer to review signatures supporting independent run Stanley Schlein will review Adams’ petitions that included signatures that were forged or fraudulently obtained.

ICYMI: Eric Adams' re-election campaign hired an attorney to review petition signatures he used to get on the ballot as an independent after a Gothamist investigation found patterns of fraud and forgery

The attorney was once sued for allegedly forging signatures

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Mayor Adams opposes MTA fare hike, but has fewer voices on agency board Former Deputy Mayor Meera Joshi resigned in June from her post as one of the city’s four MTA board members.

Meera Joshi stayed on the MTA board as an Adams appointee for months after she resigned from her deputy mayor post.

She finally left the board in June, days after the legislature went home, ensuring the mayor would have no way to replace her this year.
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Fraudulent signatures supporting Mayor Adams' re-election bid reveal lack of official enforcement A Board of Elections official said it’s up to local district attorneys to determine whether investigations are warranted.

The fraudulent signatures in Mayor Adams’ ballot petitions — and the fact they went unnoticed — highlight holes in New York’s election laws.

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Mayor Adams' Campaign Submitted Faked and Fraudulent Signatures | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC A WNYC and Gothamist investigation found that some of the signatures Mayor Adams's re-election campaign submitted for him to be on the ballot this fall as an independent were fake.

Hear @davidfbrand.bsky.social, @claytonguse.bsky.social e.bsky.social & @brigidbergin.bsky.social ky.social discuss their investigation into fraudulent ballot signatures submitted by mayor Eric Adams' reelection campaign. www.wnyc.org/story/mayor-...

Forged signatures found on Mayor Adams’ petitions to run as an independent The Adams campaign said it is conducting a review after Gothamist found signatures that were fraudulently obtained or outright forged.

NEW: Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign submitted faked and fraudulently obtained petition signatures in his effort to secure a spot on the November ballot as an independent candidate, a Gothamist investigation has found.
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Mayor Adams hired campaign consultant accused of strangling girlfriend in SoHo hotel Trent Pool runs Public Appeal, a Wyoming-based company that helped Adams gather petitions.

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In order to get on the ballot as an indepedent, Mayor Adams hired RFK's petition fixer Trent Pool

Pool faces charges of assaulting his girlfriend in an upscale Manhattan hotel last year. Adams says he had no idea
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