Louis Cholden-Brown
@lcholdenbrown
Strategist, Scholar, Advocate, and Amateur Enigmatologist. Former Gov & Union Lawyer and AD75 State Committee Member.
This furor is misplaced. GC is applying a 2007 precedent about whether you can bring a ULP if not hired for a job you were intentionally trying to not get. This tactic isn't actually about salting a job, it's about harassing anti-union employers. I'm all for that but lets be real
Good piece, but would benefit from acknowledging that EDC only administers 3 of 6 current markets and that NYC Dept of Markets dates way back to 1917 and operated 5 wholesale markets as well as regulated 53 open-air markets gothamist.com/news/zohran-ma…?
The Charter Commission has posted its Proposed Final Report, Ballot Questions, Ballot Abstracts, and Charter Amendment language ahead of a 1 PM meeting and vote: nyc.gov/site/charter/r…
EMTs definitely deserve more, but articles like this that represent the minimum pay standard as a wage rather than including $4.50+ in remuneration for taxes $ expenses employees don’t incur do a disservice to both underpaid public servants $ gig workers amny.com/police-fire/fi…
10 years ago Cuomo talked about using his emergency powers to suspend Urstadt. Of course nothing came of it and this time would be no different.
In this interview, @andrewcuomo tells @errollouis he wants New York State to repeal the Urstadt Law, which gives the state legislature power over local rent regulations, as a way to make housing more affordable ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…
Albany admittedly controls taxes, but in a year where her pitiful plans for exercising dominion over Adams landed with a thud, pretty Cuomoesque take on home rule....are we back to banning plastic bag bans?
On Morning Joe, NY Gov. Hochul touts her sway over NYC when asked about the mayor’s race. “People have to understand that I’m going to make sure that we have a climate where businesses can thrive,” she said.
A Texas district court, at the request of the Trump CFPB, just vacated a January Biden Bureau rule that removed “an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of about 15 million Americans” and prohibited lenders from using medical information in their lending
2.5m complaints have flooded the CFPB since January, approx 25% of the total CFPB has rec'd since its birth in 2011, suggesting junk fees, predatory terms & routine swindles are booming. Yet NYS & NYC remain largely silent as fake ICE agents force immigrants to buy gift cards.
Meanwhile as this package passes, the Council intros a new proposal for wrongful deactivation of app-based delivery workers legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDet…
Can't help but find it odd that this article focuses on 20,000 grocery delivery app workers rather than the vastly larger contracted delivery workforce for Amazon, FedEx, and numerous other companies, who will also get pay raises in 18 months after a study nytimes.com/2025/07/13/nyr…
Can't help but find it odd that this article focuses on 20,000 grocery delivery app workers rather than the vastly larger contracted delivery workforce for Amazon, FedEx, and numerous other companies, who will also get pay raises in 18 months after a study nytimes.com/2025/07/13/nyr…
2.5m complaints have flooded the CFPB since January, approx 25% of the total CFPB has rec'd since its birth in 2011, suggesting junk fees, predatory terms & routine swindles are booming. Yet NYS & NYC remain largely silent as fake ICE agents force immigrants to buy gift cards.
Congress will cut 50% from the CFPB today. Still zip from this Admin on antimonopoly consumer empowerment strategy. In 2026, we'll have @ZohranKMamdani and a vision to reverse oligarchic power & financial exploitation, but 1k+ more NYers will have already been robbed & victimized
Different use of the verb, but did they advise the Public Advocate who became Acting Mayor, despite the Admin regularly pretending otherwise, the second Adams left City airspace?
Well that's not true is it Kayla - you said you were sitting with counsel who said that you don't have to advise when the mayor leaves the state - I asked you if counsel could then provide a statement explaining that and you scoffed - said no - and hung up the phone