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Staten Island leaders appointed to Mamdani’s 400-person transition team

SI Live: Each committee will be overseen by one of the transition co-chairs: Lina Khan, Grace Bonilla, Maria Torres-Springer, and Melanie Hartzog. “With over 50 years of combined experience in city government, social services, and the legal field, these co-chairs will guarantee that committees are delivering results aligned with the values of the administration,” said […]

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Bridgeport’s South End Revival Continues with Groundbreaking

Patch: Two significant Bridgeport projects got underway Monday with the official groundbreaking of Phase II of the Windward Apartments and the launch of Rebuild by Design’s revitalization efforts. Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim and U.S. Congressman Jim Himes joined Connecticut Department of Housing’s Seila Mosquera-Bruno and Hermia Delaire, Park City Communities CEO Jillian Baldwin, JHM Group

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Watch: Groundbreaking For More South End Housing, Resilience Project

Only In Bridgeport: The start of two significant Bridgeport projects: the construction of the Winward Apartments Phase II and the launch of Rebuild by Design’s revitalization efforts. The event is hosted by project developers: the CT Department of Housing, Park City Communities and JHM Group. Phase II of the Winward apartments will include four new

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Trump’s FEMA disaster aid approvals fell largely along party lines in October 2025

Snopes: Rebuild by Design, a project of New York University, found 99.5% of congressional districts include a county that has received a major disaster declaration for extreme weather between 2011 and 2024. Across all districts, Republican districts tend to have more disasters and receive slightly more federal funding for disasters, according to an AP analysis

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Atlas of Accountability: County-Level Federal Disaster Declarations (2011-2024)

Between 2011 and 2024, 99.5% of congressional districts experienced at least one federally declared major disaster due to extreme weather, affecting communities across political, urban-rural, and socioeconomic lines. These events, fueled by climate change, cost taxpayers $117.9 billion in federal relief—$72.7 billion from FEMA for hazard mitigation (HM) and public assistance (PA), as well as $45.2 billion

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Vermont’s lost FEMA funding

Vermont Daily Chronicle: “With a population of 648,000 people, Vermont has historically relied on federal dollars for disaster response funding that state and local taxes alone can’t produce,” the Daily Yonder reported. “Between 2011-2024, rural counties in Vermont had among the greatest occurrences of federally-declared extreme weather disasters in the country, per a Daily Yonder

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Melissa strikes Jamaica as New Jersey remembers Superstorm Sandy 13 years ago

NBC Philadelphia: “Anything that was in the planning process, any projects that were being implemented are paused until further notice,” Hana Katz with Rebuild by Design said. “If we were to have a disaster now, especially to the extent of Sandy and the government were to be shut down, we would have a completely disjointed

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