Last month, the New York Times ran a glowing profile of Iowa City’s fare-free bus pilot program. Since eliminating fares in August 2023, the college town of 75,000 has seen ridership increase, ...

New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s campaign message may have been clouded by detractors calling his transit plans unrealistic, but the Queens lawmaker may have been more practical in his thinking ...

As mayor-elect, one of Zohran Mamdani’s first acts was to squelch an insurgent leftist’s political campaign. If this, like Mamdani’s chummy meeting with Donald Trump, was obviously jarring, it carried ...

Subway and bus riders voted overwhelmingly for Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who won neighborhoods where most people commute by transit by 29 points. It’s little wonder, given his unprecedented promise ...

Journalists expecting a clash at Trump and Mamdani’s first meeting were taken by surprise. The reasons why have more to do with policy than personality. On Friday, President Donald Trump held his ...

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani says nothing has changed about his view of President Donald Trump — even after the two men held a closely watched meeting at the White House on Friday.

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The sound bite of the week was anti-ideological, for once. In the Oval Office, President Donald Trump leaned toward New York’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, and said, “We have to get Con Edison to ...

The secret fear of the loudest die-hard critics of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is not that he will fail as the city’s leader but that he has a very good chance of succeeding. If the new administration ...

COLUMBIA — The Columbia Office of Violence Prevention is proposing a pilot program that would place trained community workers on city buses to improve safety. The community navigation liaisons project ...