In the final days of the legislative session in Albany last week, the State Senate passed a bill that would expand healthcare access to hundreds of thousands of low-income New Yorkers regardless of ...

Unionized home-care workers and advocates packed into Albany on Monday, pressing lawmakers to pull private insurers out of New York’s Medicaid home-care payment system. At the center of the fight is ...

ALBANY — State Sen. Gustavo Rivera may not have the backing of the Bronx political machine, but the influential Hotel Trades Council is in his corner. The politically powerful union became Monday the ...

Tenants Political Action Committee (PAC) announced its support this morning for Gustavo Rivera in his bid to unseat incumbent Pedro Espada, Jr. in the 33rd Senate District. It adds to a growing list ...

Home care workers and Democratic State Senator Gustavo Rivera rallied at the New York State Capitol to remove Medicaid ...

There will be press conference at 10 a.m. in front of the Kingsbridge Armory to announce Councilman Fernando Cabrera’s endorsement of Gustavo Rivera as he seeks to unseat Pedro Espada Jr. in the 33rd ...

Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the May edition of the Mt. Hope Monitor. Like every New York state senator, when 33rd District representative Gustavo Rivera moved into his local office, he ...

At least, he appears relaxed and confident. Earlier today, I had lunch with Rivera and two of his volunteers at New Capital Restaurent, a diner on West Kingsbrige Road. Rivera was in good spirits.

Well, here’s one sign that there’s some work going on in Albany, despite the lack of action on rent reform and gay marriange. State Sen. Gustavo Rivera’s office just tweeted that the freshman lawmaker ...

As we mentioned in the news roundup yesterday, former Bronx Borough President Freddy Ferrer is endorsing candidate Gustavo Rivera in the 33rd Senate District race, as Rivera fights to unseat State Sen ...

Here are some snippets from a couple of hours I spent out at the polls and visiting a few senior centers with the Gustavo Rivera campaign earlier today. When I arrived at Mosholu Montefiore Community ...

Bronx State Senator Gustavo Rivera is no stranger to contentious campaigns, but his bid this year for a seventh term has been exceptionally so. Rivera, a hero of New York’s progressive left known for ...