{"id":76407,"date":"2026-07-22T09:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/mamdani-taps-lina-khan-and-tony-shorris-for-key-new-york-economic-posts\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:55:14","slug":"mamdani-taps-lina-khan-and-tony-shorris-for-key-new-york-economic-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/mamdani-taps-lina-khan-and-tony-shorris-for-key-new-york-economic-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani taps Lina Khan and Tony Shorris for key New York economic posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The appointments mark a shift at the state\u2019s powerful development agencies as the mayor reshapes his economic agenda<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New York City mayor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/zohran-mamdani\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, has named Lina Khan as the next chair of the city\u2019s Economic Development Board (EDB) and longtime city government official Tony Shorris as the next leader of the city\u2019s Economic Development Corporation (EDC), marking major changes at one of New York\u2019s most influential agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Khan, who previously chaired the Federal Trade Commission during the Biden administration, has been a close adviser to the mayor. She also played an early role in reviewing candidates for the EDC president position.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/22\/lina-khan-nyc-economic-development-board\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appointments mark a shift at the state\u2019s powerful development agencies as the mayor reshapes his economic agenda Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has named Lina Khan as the next chair of the city\u2019s Economic Development Board (EDB) and longtime city government official Tony Shorris &#8230; <a title=\"Mamdani taps Lina Khan and Tony Shorris for key New York economic posts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/mamdani-taps-lina-khan-and-tony-shorris-for-key-new-york-economic-posts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mamdani taps Lina Khan and Tony Shorris for key New York economic posts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}