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Mayor Eric Adams needs to reward competence, now that Frank Carone is exiting

Frank Carone is leaving as Mayor Eric Adams’ chief of staff at the end of December — a move that should prompt the mayor to start upping his staff’s game now. In his rookie year, Adams’ agenda in Albany stalled on multiple key fronts. Above all, the Legislature refused to make real criminal-justice fixes, badly […]

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Mayor Eric Adams rips Albany on school control

Mayor Eric Adams fumed Wednesday about some state lawmakers he says are preventing him from improving the Big Apple’s public school system, labeling them “professional naysayers.” Adams’ response came after state legislators introduced a new bill Monday that would grant him control of the city’s public schools system for just two years — rather than the three-years […]

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