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John Flanagan stands up for New York City's kids
Kudos to state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan for standing up for every child’s right to a first-class education. Flanagan says he won’t extend mayoral control of the city’s regular...
Senate GOP leader wants to raise city's charter school cap
Republican state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan will insist that more charter schools be allowed to open in New York City as part of any deal to extend Mayor de...
New York's newest ugly budget
Remember all the jeers at then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 2010 comment, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it”? That’s business as usual...
Cuomo, GOP leaders feud over proposed tax hikes
A war has erupted between Gov. Cuomo and state Senate Republicans over the taxes and fees added in his new budget. “What we heard tended to be a little different...
Cuomo proposal calls for state agencies to buy US-made goods
ALBANY – New York State government agencies would have to buy US-made products for purchases over $100,000, under a plan announced Wednesday by Gov. Cuomo. “We’re going to enact a...
Senate GOP leader John Flanagan eyes run for governor
ALBANY – State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan is considering challenging Gov. Cuomo in 2018, sources told The Post Wednesday. “It’s being talked about,” one source said. GOP consultant Mike...
Cuomo gets in a shouting match with Senate GOP leader
ALBANY -- Gov. Cuomo and state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan got into a shouting match over the phone, it was reported Thursday, and later traded charges over who is...
State Senate races a big win for GOP — and huge loss for de Blasio
Hillary Clinton won New York big, but Donald Trump’s coattails outside the city were enough to give Republicans outright control of the state Senate. The GOP withstood Democratic challenges in...
GOP leader accuses Cuomo of giving de Blasio too much power
Republican state Senate Majority leader John Flanagan charged Wednesday that Gov. Cuomo was putting Mayor de Blasio “in charge of setting the state’s agenda” by campaigning to swing the house...
Albany tries to defend charter schools from de Blasio (again)
Yet again, Albany is racing to the rescue of the city’s charter schools — even as Mayor de Blasio tries to hold them back. In a June letter disclosed for...
Powerful union backing GOP's bid to keep control of NY Senate
A powerful union with close ties to both Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio is throwing its money behind the Republican Party’s bid to maintain control of the state Senate....
Consensus says Heastie and Flanagan are weak leaders
"Weak and weaker." That’s how one of the state’s best-known and most experienced lobbyists summed up the first full legislative cycle presided over by freshmen Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and...
A toothless tiger can't fix de Blasio's misrule of NYC schools
We appreciate that state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan wants to rein in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s misrule of the city’s schools, but his proposed “education inspector” won’t do much...
New York's leaders are still failing on ethics reform
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature’s leaders are oh so proud of their just-passed state budget — yet there’s not a word in it about ethics reform. This as former...
Flanagan blasts ethics-reform bill supported by Democrat Todd Kaminsky
State Senate GOP Majority Leader John Flanagan is getting involved in the race to keep convicted crook Dean Skelos’ former Long Island seat in Republican hands — blasting Democratic candidate...
John Flanagan close to $15 minimum wage deal with Cuomo
Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan is close to a “Faustian pact’’ with Democratic Gov. Cuomo to raise the state’s minimum wage to a national high of $15 an hour...
Andrew Cuomo's reckless and radical 'fight for $15'
New York has seldom seen an executive initiative as politically radical or economically reckless as Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal for a $15-per-hour statewide minimum wage. The radicalism, at least, appears...
New York's cross-dressing Republicans
Wondering why this state’s taxes are the nation’s highest? Just look at how lawmakers this week pandered to mayors seeking to ease the cap on property-tax hikes. Lawmakers including Republican...
Heastie selects state ethics panelists originally picked by Silver
ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has reappointed two members to a state ethics panel who were first put there by his crooked predecessor, Sheldon Silver. Heastie defended his move...
New York's new pork reeks as badly as the old
For all the years of scandal to rock Albany, one truth remains absolute: Never expect a legislative leader to apologize for pork. Carl Heastie may have become speaker after a...