‘Price gouging’ claims and fight to protect health care access for New York City workers

UFT President Michael Mulgrew joins Democratic mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani outside IS5 in Elmhurst, Queens.

Approximately 40,000 New York City public employees, retirees, and their dependents could lose in-network coverage as early as next week in a long-running dispute with insurance company Emblem Health over premiums at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Network. The United Federation of Teachers, the city’s second-largest public sector union, accused the hospital of making a “power play” … Read more

Upstate New York turkey poacher arrested for bagging three out-of-season birds

NYS DEC Police Reports from January to March 2026

Residents of the town of Orleans in Jefferson County reported seeing a neighbor shoot and kill several wild turkeys from their backyard on February 27th. When New York State Department of Environmental Conservation officers questioned the neighbor, he admitted to firing four shots, killing three wild turkeys as they were feeding on a bird feeder … Read more