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Open Letter to Mayor Ferris: You Ran Against Mill Street Lofts, Now You Extend the Contract in Secret?

Read the full Open Letter here.

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Legislation Tracker ’27

Voter Guide: Election ‘27

Scoreboard: Election ’25

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Our inspiration: “A severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.”

-The Economist, founding prospectus, 1843.

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The World Is Copying America at 250. Hudson, Its First City, Should Too

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Local Progressive (Hodge) Who Lost Everywhere Else, Generously Offers to Lead Hudson as Mayor

Read the full Shallot Satire here.

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$1.6 Million Disaster

Hudson 4th Ward Supervisor, Linda Mussmann, asks ‘when is enough, enough?’ in this short and factual Letter to the Editors. Read the full Letter to the Editors here.

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Hudson, You’ve Got NO Mail

Mayor Ferris is 2 for 3 on his core transparency promises, so why is the easiest one still missing?

Read the full Editorial here.

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Hudson Knows the Problem. Now What About Pedestrian Safety?

A Warren Street resident asks whether knowing about the speeding, the trucks, and the near-misses is enough, or whether City Hall will actually act...

Read the full Guest Op-Ed here.

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Hudson's School Vote Is Captured

The Hudson Teachers’ Association has the money and votes in the bag. Is this election, and its rules, stacked against taxpayers? Read the full Editorial here.

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Special Report: Half the Kids. Twenty Times the Budget.

Over the past 20 years, Hudson’s youth population has been cut in half while its youth-services budget has grown twentyfold. The city now spends over $45,000 per child each year (HCSD + Hudson groups). Its $1 million Youth Center serves 40 kids a day. A Youth Industrial Complex: a jobs program for adults, funded by the middle-class families it is taxing out of the city they built.

Follow the money. Follow the lobbying. Understand why nothing changes. ***Read the full Special Report here. Read the response to the response here (coming soon)…***

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Guest Op-Ed: In The Shadows

Our new Series (Guest Op-Eds + Editorials) asks a simple question: can every differently abled resident of Hudson live freely and fully in their own city? We begin with a firsthand account, a Guest Op-Ed authored by Papillon, a differently abled Hudson resident. A 2-square-mile walking town, but what if walking itself isn’t simple? Read the full Guest Op-Ed here.

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The Shallot: City of Hudson Officially Declares April "Conservative+ Coming Out Month"

From Betsy Ross flags to Bengalis, is Hudson finally winning the battle to protect New York’s most endangered demographic; conservatives? Read the full Satirical piece here.

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Contemporary Hudson Common Sense Covers, Inspired by The Economist

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