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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
Court’s mail-in voting decision is a slap in the face to NY’s voters
So much for “no means no.” That’s the message from the state Court of Appeals, which ruled last week that…
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Opinion
Hochul’s COVID report leaves NY still lacking answers four years later
More than four years after the eruption of the 2020 COVID pandemic, New Yorkers still have no reliable, independent assessment…
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Opinion
NYS public-campaign-finance fraud exposes state board’s utter incompetence
New York state’s new public-campaign-funding scheme couldn’t be more ripe for fraud and abuse. In the lead-up to the June…
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Opinion
Restore New York’s mask ban NOW!
A coalition of civil rights groups, religious leaders and lawmakers rallied Thursday to demand the state’s mask ban be restored…
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Opinion
Albany’s flawed new housing tax break just killed a magnificent Brooklyn project
Don’t believe Gov. Hochul’s so-called replacement for the 421-a tax-abatement program will spur the creation of new homes the way…
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Stories
Kathy Hochul gets on board with key parts of NY ‘Good Cause’ rent-control bill as state budget housing deal nears
Gov. Kathy Hochul is getting on board with key parts of the “Good Cause Eviction” bill being pushed by lefty…
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Opinion
New York’s costly consumer-protection insanity just won’t stay dead
Here’s another menace at risk of being rushed into law as part of the state budget: The so-called Consumer and…
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Opinion
Albany can’t let insane NY housing laws send Bronx back to bad old days
In a sign city housing is headed for even bigger trouble, 32 BJ SEIU building workers have OK’d a strike…
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Opinion
New York lawmakers’ spending spree will bankrupt the state
State lawmakers must be smoking some of that wacky tobacky they legalized, because the one-house budget bills they passed this…
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