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Our mission is to make sure Black communities are not simply informed about the decisions shaping our future, but equipped to help make those decisions. An informed community is a powerful community.

Issues in New York

New York: where things are being decided

Full stories first. Then every county and city SourceLine covers, ranked by how many matters are rising before its board. Open a place to see all of them.

Issues in New York

What matters most comes first: full stories, then decisions that keep coming back, divide the board, draw residents, change how land near you is used, or move big money for the size of the place. Open decisions come before decided ones.

StatewideNew York

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NationalUnited States

Housing and heirs' propertyDirecting federal agencies to favor grants for places that enforce camping and drug bans, promote civil commitment for people with serious mental illness, and end support for "housing first" policiesOpen ›Who decides and why ›
EducationCreating a White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and an advisory board, and revoking Executive Order 14041, to work with agencies and private partners on these schoolsOpen ›Who decides and why ›
EducationDirecting the Education Secretary to issue new school discipline guidance within 30 days, act against schools and states that break Title VI rules on racial discrimination, and report on discipline policiesOpen ›Who decides and why ›

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Counties and cities

New York 199 issues, 0 rising
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About these figures

Every figure on this page shows the year it describes. Public agencies release their numbers on their own schedules, often a year or more after the work of counting is done. The Census Bureau, for example, publishes its five year community survey each December, and the national reading test is given every two years. That is why some figures are not from this year. SourceLine updates each one as soon as the agency publishes it.

For some counties and small towns, SourceLine has not found meeting records online. Where it has not, we add them as they become available. A page that says SourceLine hasn’t updated a record yet means exactly that.