As the MTA swaps MetroCards for its OMNY digital system, thousands of JFK Airport workers scramble to snap up the last paper cards—still their only ticket to discounted $42.50 AirTrain fares—at Jamaica and Howard Beach newsstands. The Port Authority…
Bruce Blakeman, eyeing the New York governor’s mansion, lambasted incumbent Kathy Hochul for allegedly letting the state’s DMV issue commercial truck licenses to undocumented immigrants—some, he claims, even listed as “No Name Given.” Team Hochul notes their procedures follow federal rules and employment authorization checks, but with two fatal crashes cited by Blakeman, the road to Albany will clearly be paved with more than orange cones.
After a year and a half of legal wrangling, New York City extracted $2.1 million from A&E Real Estate—one of its largest landlords—to resolve more than 4,000 housing code violations and tenant harassment claims affecting 750 renters in Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. City Hall trumpets this as the largest settlement by its housing department, while A&E, ever the optimist, calls it “collaboration”—diplomatic phrasing for a costly nudge.
New Jersey’s Attorney General has sued Clark Township and ex-mayor Sal Bonaccorso for allegedly directing police to keep Black residents out—an accusation robustly denied by current officials as outmoded and “frivolous.” An expert’s data show Black and Hispanic motorists were far likelier to be searched than whites in this suburb of Rahway and Linden. Statistically blatant bias, of course, rarely hides forever behind blue curtains.
America’s latest nutritional guidelines, dubbed the “inverted pyramid,” push vegetables to centre stage and assign proteins their rightful heft, upending decades of grain-heavy dogma nudged along, we now learn, by vested interests. Heeding advice from Carlos Jaramillo and data rather than lobbyists, we’re invited to view eggs as superfoods rather than villains and to treat sugar as a rare guest—a framework as radical as it is refreshingly common sense.
We note that New Jersey’s attorney general has sued Clark Township, alleging its former mayor, Salvatore Bonaccorso, orchestrated police stops to deter Black and Hispanic drivers—conduct supported by recordings and stop data, though hard to square with the town’s modern aspirations. Despite state oversight since Union County took control of Clark police in 2019, old habits, it seems, are about as tenacious as morning traffic in suburbia.
As Blue Monday, that annual pseudo-scientific nadir, returns to headlines in January 2026, experts quietly retire the slogan in favor of reckoning with plain winter blues—now stoked by chronic stress, economic fog, and those ever-glossy social feeds. Data points instead to humbler remedies: decent sleep, morning sun, a short walk. Apparently, curing gloom requires no equation, influencer, or grand theory—just a little more daylight than despair.
Governor Kathy Hochul may have a war chest large enough to buy upstate vineyards, with disclosures showing $20.2 million on hand—nearly twenty times Bruce Blakeman’s cash and far ahead of rebel lieutenant Antonio Delgado’s $1.1 million. Yet New York’s debut public campaign finance scheme promises matching funds for well-networked underdogs, potentially making entrenched machines sweat—if, that is, hope and small donors actually outpace billionaires for once.
A snowy Sunday disrupted air travel across New York’s three major airports—JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark—with over 600 delays and 250 cancellations, as reported by NYC Emergency Management and the FAA. Delays cleared by day’s end, but even the most optimistic travelers faced nearly hour-long waits. With two to four inches of snow and a week of arctic chill ahead, winter seems bent on testing both patience and luggage wheels.
