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Albany close to deal on new taxes to fund MTA capital plan
State lawmakers and Gov. Kathy Hochul are finalizing a plan to ding New Yorkers’ pocketbooks to help fund the MTA’s…
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Opinion
New Yorkers must pray that the state budget standstill lasts for a good long time
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie grumbled to reporters last week that state budget talks are “kind of at a standstill” because…
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Opinion
Kathy Hochul, lawmakers steering New York into a fiscal train wreck
Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers are about to ram through one of the most reckless spending plans in New…
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Opinion
The ironic tragedy of how Albany Dems shot down the DA who raised the alarm on soaring youth gun crime
Two teens shot near the Governor’s Mansion last week prompted Albany’s mayor to declare the city “flooded with guns” —…
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Hochul calls to end Electoral College while presiding over NY vote for Kamala Harris: ‘No offense to Wyoming’
Gov. Kathy Hochul called for the Electoral College to be abolished despite Donald Trump’s popular vote win — as she…
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Upstate NY Democrat goes rogue and launches write-in campaign, breaks with party on bail reform
An upstate Democrat is launching a longshot write-in campaign to keep his job as prosecutor – bashing bail reform and…
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Opinion
Blame shoplifting scourge and blasé lawmakers
Vacant storefronts are both a sign and a cause of economic distress — and they’ve nearly doubled in the city…
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Carl Heastie faces NY GOP challenger fed up over crime
A fired-up Bronx title insurance broker announced that she will run against entrenched Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in the Nov.…
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Retail workers near Carl Heastie’s NYC office constantly fear being attacked on job
Retail employees near state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s Bronx office say they are regularly forced to deal with violent armed…
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NY Democrats could vote to scrap redistricting maps — something that may create ‘major repercussions’ for control of House
State lawmakers could vote to scrap New York’s new congressional maps next week — something that would have “major repercussions”…
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