Ry Rivard
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Can a socialist mayor and Wall Street coexist? New York is about to find out. politi.co/47Y1PGS
Can a socialist mayor and Wall Street coexist? New York is about to find out.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is confronting a skeptical business community in the wake of his election victory.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Can a socialist mayor and Wall Street coexist? New York is about to find out. politi.co/47Y1PGS
Affordability, affordability, affordability: Democrats’ new winning formula politi.co/47B4Jju
Affordability, affordability, affordability: Democrats’ new winning formula
From a democratic socialist in New York to moderates in Virginia and New Jersey, Democrats found success by focusing on the cost of living — not culture wars.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Affordability, affordability, affordability: Democrats’ new winning formula politi.co/47B4Jju
‘We are arresting the mayor right now, per the deputy attorney general’ politi.co/4fHe0tX w/ @mattfriedmannj.bsky.social & Erica Orden
‘We are arresting the mayor right now, per the deputy attorney general’
An account of bodycam footage, submitted in a recent court filling, provides new detail about a confrontation outside a New Jersey immigration facility.
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August 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
‘We are arresting the mayor right now, per the deputy attorney general’ politi.co/4fHe0tX w/ @mattfriedmannj.bsky.social & Erica Orden
Federal judge will decide whether Trump ally Alina Habba can lead prosecutions in New Jersey politi.co/4fjOdYK w/ @kyledcheney @joshgerstein @MattFriedmanNJ
Federal judge will decide whether Trump ally Alina Habba can lead prosecutions in New Jersey
It could open additional challenges to her authority since a hearing isn’t for two weeks.
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August 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Federal judge will decide whether Trump ally Alina Habba can lead prosecutions in New Jersey politi.co/4fjOdYK w/ @kyledcheney @joshgerstein @MattFriedmanNJ
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NEW: A criminal defendant in New Jersey says Alina Habba is acting illegally as U.S. attorney. His basis? Judge Aileen Cannon's ruling tossing criminal charges against Trump.
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July 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEW: A criminal defendant in New Jersey says Alina Habba is acting illegally as U.S. attorney. His basis? Judge Aileen Cannon's ruling tossing criminal charges against Trump.
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NEW: The White House says Trump has fired the court-appointed U.S. attorney that NJ judges appointed to succeed Alina Habba.
They say the judicial appointee — Leigh Grace — never actually had the job, but just in case, she's fired anyway.
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They say the judicial appointee — Leigh Grace — never actually had the job, but just in case, she's fired anyway.
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July 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
NEW: The White House says Trump has fired the court-appointed U.S. attorney that NJ judges appointed to succeed Alina Habba.
They say the judicial appointee — Leigh Grace — never actually had the job, but just in case, she's fired anyway.
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They say the judicial appointee — Leigh Grace — never actually had the job, but just in case, she's fired anyway.
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Updated: Prosecutors asked to delay at least one case — involving a triple homicide — b/c AG Pam Bondi fired the lead prosecutor, according to filing made today by a defense attorney who wants her client released until the government is ready for trial.
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July 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Updated: Prosecutors asked to delay at least one case — involving a triple homicide — b/c AG Pam Bondi fired the lead prosecutor, according to filing made today by a defense attorney who wants her client released until the government is ready for trial.
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NEW: A criminal defendant filed the first of what coudl be many challenges to the authority of Acting U.S. attorney Alina Habba.
The matter has been sent to a district judge in PA because all the NJ judges are conflicted out.
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The matter has been sent to a district judge in PA because all the NJ judges are conflicted out.
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July 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
NEW: A criminal defendant filed the first of what coudl be many challenges to the authority of Acting U.S. attorney Alina Habba.
The matter has been sent to a district judge in PA because all the NJ judges are conflicted out.
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The matter has been sent to a district judge in PA because all the NJ judges are conflicted out.
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Alina Habba’s authority as New Jersey’s top prosecutor questioned in new legal filing politi.co/4l0TgOT w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social & @joshgerstein
Alina Habba’s authority as New Jersey’s top prosecutor questioned in new legal filing
A lawyer said his client is “facing an imminent criminal trial proceeding under questionable legal authority” and asked for the charges to be thrown out.
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July 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Alina Habba’s authority as New Jersey’s top prosecutor questioned in new legal filing politi.co/4l0TgOT w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social & @joshgerstein
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NEW: The Trump administration is making a last ditch series of maneuvers to keep Alina Habba in as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey. It might work.
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July 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
NEW: The Trump administration is making a last ditch series of maneuvers to keep Alina Habba in as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey. It might work.
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The firing of a veteran prosecutor in New Jersey escalates Trump administration’s war with the courts politi.co/4m2TSV4
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The firing of a veteran prosecutor in New Jersey escalates Trump administration’s war with the courts
A battle over judges’ power to fill a federal prosecutor vacancy could create a legitimacy crisis.
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July 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The firing of a veteran prosecutor in New Jersey escalates Trump administration’s war with the courts politi.co/4m2TSV4
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Republican governors are joining their Democratic colleagues to question whether the nation’s largest grid operator has its act together at a time of soaring energy prices. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025... for @POLITICOPro
POLITICO Pro: Governors of both parties pile on grid operator PJM over ‘crisis of confidence’
The Pennsylvania-based operator supplies power to 67M people across 13 states.
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July 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Republican governors are joining their Democratic colleagues to question whether the nation’s largest grid operator has its act together at a time of soaring energy prices. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025... for @POLITICOPro
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POLITICO Pro: Murphy administration exempts $1B Netflix studio from sea-level rise rule
The carve-out will allow one of Gov. Phil Murphy’s pet projects to avoid complying with climate change regulations.
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July 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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New Jersey makes major changes to controversial sea level rise rule
Now, instead of preparing the state’s 130 miles of coastline for 5 feet of sea level rise, the rules will only require developers to plan for 4 feet
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Now, instead of preparing the state’s 130 miles of coastline for 5 feet of sea level rise, the rules will only require developers to plan for 4 feet
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POLITICO Pro: Murphy administration makes major changes to controversial sea level rise rule
They come in part because local officials and the Murphy administration seem willing to gamble that the worst climate change projections won’t come to pass.
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July 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
New Jersey makes major changes to controversial sea level rise rule
Now, instead of preparing the state’s 130 miles of coastline for 5 feet of sea level rise, the rules will only require developers to plan for 4 feet
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Now, instead of preparing the state’s 130 miles of coastline for 5 feet of sea level rise, the rules will only require developers to plan for 4 feet
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Democrats from Illinois to New Jersey have a new enemy — and most voters have probably never heard of it.
Customers across a fifth of the country are about to see dramatically higher utility bills thanks in part to PJM. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Customers across a fifth of the country are about to see dramatically higher utility bills thanks in part to PJM. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Democrats' newest villain is a power player you've never heard of
PJM is well known among energy wonks as the organization that oversees the power market and electric grid in 13 states and Washington.
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April 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Democrats from Illinois to New Jersey have a new enemy — and most voters have probably never heard of it.
Customers across a fifth of the country are about to see dramatically higher utility bills thanks in part to PJM. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Customers across a fifth of the country are about to see dramatically higher utility bills thanks in part to PJM. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
And this published even before China announced 34% retaliatory tariffs.
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Farmers are no strangers to trade wars.
But the farm economy is in a much weaker spot than 2018 after years of high inflation and low crop prices.
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Farmers are no strangers to trade wars.
But the farm economy is in a much weaker spot than 2018 after years of high inflation and low crop prices.
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Farmers are no strangers to trade wars. But this time may be worse.
Facing higher inflation and economic uncertainty, farmers have less cushion to face tariffs than they did during the first Trump administration.
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April 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And this published even before China announced 34% retaliatory tariffs.
he county line was an only-in-Jersey phenomenon that faced a reckoning following the 2023 indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez. But it became a strange vestige of Tammany Hall-era machine politics that Woodrow Wilson tried to snuff out over a century ago. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
New Jersey's ballot design that gave party bosses big influence is officially dead
The Democratic governor signed an overhaul that makes this year’s race to succeed him the most unpredictable in generations.
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March 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
he county line was an only-in-Jersey phenomenon that faced a reckoning following the 2023 indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez. But it became a strange vestige of Tammany Hall-era machine politics that Woodrow Wilson tried to snuff out over a century ago. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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The state where Democrats have hit rock bottom
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March 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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STORYTIME FOR DONALD: Call it congestion trolling. politi.co/4bltQrV
The tolling trolling begins
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February 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
STORYTIME FOR DONALD: Call it congestion trolling. politi.co/4bltQrV
New Jersey’s budget could need a ‘break the glass’ strategy if Trump makes cuts politi.co/43ea6oe w/ @danieljhan.bsky.social
New Jersey’s budget could need a ‘break the glass’ strategy if GOP makes cuts
Gov. Phil Murphy's spending plan does not predict what cuts President Donald Trump, DOGE or a Republican Congress may make, but he is bracing for impact.
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February 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
New Jersey’s budget could need a ‘break the glass’ strategy if Trump makes cuts politi.co/43ea6oe w/ @danieljhan.bsky.social
E. Jean Carroll lawyer takes another swing at Trump, this time over NYC tolls politi.co/3D2TGUW w/
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E. Jean Carroll lawyer takes another swing at Trump, this time over NYC tolls
Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer who won sexual abuse and defamation lawsuits for the writer E. Jean Carroll, is also representing the transit agency fighting to keep congestion pricing.
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February 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
E. Jean Carroll lawyer takes another swing at Trump, this time over NYC tolls politi.co/3D2TGUW w/
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President Trump: “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!”
Gov. Hochul: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king...We’ll see you in court.”
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Gov. Hochul: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king...We’ll see you in court.”
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Trump moves to kill congestion pricing in NYC
Rescinding federal support for the tolls is expected to trigger lawsuits from backers of the tolls.
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February 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
President Trump: “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!”
Gov. Hochul: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king...We’ll see you in court.”
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Gov. Hochul: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king...We’ll see you in court.”
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Another New York, New Jersey feud: Wildfires politi.co/41e5HA5 w/ Marie J. French
Another New York, New Jersey feud: Wildfires
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy used a press conference on wildfire readiness to say New York’s lack of a state fire service is “beyond belief.”
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February 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Another New York, New Jersey feud: Wildfires politi.co/41e5HA5 w/ Marie J. French
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POLITICO Pro: New Jersey power bills set to skyrocket this summer
The increases are thanks to a power supply crunch
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February 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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