WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved legislation Thursday aimed at speeding up permitting reviews for new energy and ...

The caucus might be able to help members of both parties coalesce around ideas that help nonprofits have more impact.

Thomas Paine published “Common Sense” in 1776 as an argument for independence. Americans across the political spectrum have ...

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New York City Councilmember Susan Zhuang walks a peculiar political line. She’s a conservative Democrat — a member of the council’s Republican-dominated Common Sense Caucus. Sixty percent of voters in ...

Queens elected three new representatives to the City Council on Tuesday, while also sending all Council incumbents on the ballot back to the legislature for another four years. In the District 30 race ...

As several powerful Democrats have refused to endorse Zohran Mamdani and some Democrats have even endorsed his opponent, Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn continued to embrace ...

Much of Phil Wong’s approach to representing City Council District 30 would involve finding a middle ground. That includes bridging partisan divides, particularly via the Common Sense Caucus, Wong ...

New York City's notoriously long development approval process could get sped up for some projects if city voters back a handful of measures that will appear on their Election Day ballots in November.

This story was originally published by THE CITY. Sign up to get the latest New York City news delivered to you each morning. Election Day is approaching and New Yorkers won’t simply have a say on who ...