New York’s independent grocery stores consistently face disadvantages from corporate competitors who can sell groceries at lower prices due to differences in supply chains and purchasing power. A recent New York State Senate and Assembly bill seeks to change that.

Dozens gathered at the steps of City Hall Wednesday to protest legislation that would require the New York Police Department to create plans to implement no-protest “buffer zones” outside places of worship and schools—including Columbia.

After struggling to find neighborhood spots to bring her children, Mariely Hieroms, a mother of three living in Hamilton Heights, decided to fill that gap herself, opening the neighborhood’s first indoor playground in February 2025.

Former President Bill Clinton spoke about his relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Oslo Accords at an Institute of Global Politics event Nov. 10, marking 30 years since Rabin’s assassination.

Lina Khan, associate professor of law and former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, and Cory Doctorow, a journalist and author who has previously written about tech companies and digital regulation, spoke on a panel Nov. 5 at the Lee C. Bollinger Forum about the divide in digital policy between the United States and Europe.

Columbia will be the only test-optional Ivy League in the 2027-28 admissions cycle, after Princeton University announced in an Oct. 9 update to its web page on standardized testing that it will begin requiring students to submit SAT or ACT scores—the seventh Ivy to announce an end to its test-optional policy.