20 Things To Know About Mamdani’s City-Owned Grocery Stores
No part of Zohran Mamdani’s agenda has attracted attention out of proportion to its size quite like the city-owned grocery stores. It…
By Darl Messy
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20 Things To Know About Mamdani’s Universal Childcare Push
Free universal childcare is the least discussed and possibly most consequential part of Zohran Mamdani’s affordability agenda. Unlike free buses, it moved…
By Darl Messy
20 Things To Know About Mamdani’s Fare-Free Bus Promise
Free buses were among the most recognisable promises of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign, and they are also the promise that has most visibly…
By Darl Messy
20 Arguments Supporters Make For Zohranomics
Zohran Mamdani’s affordability agenda has strong defenders among housing advocates, fiscal analysts and organisers. This piece sets out the case they make,…
By Darl Messy
20 Arguments Critics Make Against Zohranomics
Zohran Mamdani’s affordability agenda has attracted sustained criticism from economists, think tanks and parts of the press. This piece sets out the…
By Darl Messy
20 Things To Know About Mamdani’s Tax Plan And The Fight With Albany
Almost every commitment in Zohran Mamdani’s affordability agenda runs through the same bottleneck: New York City cannot raise its own income taxes…
By Darl Messy
20 Things Mamdani Has Actually Delivered In His First Six Months
Campaign promises and governing records are different things. Zohran Mamdani took office in January 2026, and by midsummer there is enough of…
By Darl Messy
20 Things To Know About Mamdani’s Block By Block Housing Plan
Roughly six months into his mayoralty, Zohran Mamdani released a housing plan running to more than a hundred pages. It is the…
By Darl Messy
20 Reasons Skynyrd Nation Is Not Going Anywhere
A band that lost its singer in 1977 and its last original member in 2023 should have faded decades ago. Instead the…
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20 Lynyrd Skynyrd Songs Every Member Of Skynyrd Nation Knows
Two Lynyrd Skynyrd songs are known by the entire world. The rest are known by Skynyrd Nation, and that is where the…
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20 Things You Only See At A Lynyrd Skynyrd Show
A Lynyrd Skynyrd concert does not look like other classic rock bills. The crowd is different, the atmosphere is different and the…
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20 Things Johnny Van Zant Has Done For Skynyrd Nation
Fronting the band your late brother built is not a normal job, and Johnny Van Zant has now been doing it since…
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20 Things Skynyrd Fans Pass Down To Their Kids
Almost nobody discovers Lynyrd Skynyrd on their own. The entry point is nearly always somebody older — a parent, an uncle, a…
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20 Things That Made Ronnie Van Zant A Different Kind Of Frontman
Ronnie Van Zant fronted Lynyrd Skynyrd for less than a decade before the October 1977 plane crash, and nearly fifty years later…
By Darl Messy
20 Things That Make The Skynyrd Triple Guitar Sound Different
Most rock bands have a lead guitarist and a rhythm guitarist. Lynyrd Skynyrd built themselves around three guitars playing together, and that…
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