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NY pols push casino plan to aid MTA as congestion toll mayhem reigns
Speeding up the selection process for the metro area's three casino licenses could generate billions of dollars in much-needed revenue for the MTA after Gov. Kathy Hochul stalled the congestion...
'Republican' Staten Island excluded from getting more judges under Dem NY bill: 'Blatantly disproportionate'
The Democratic-led state Legislature passed a bill to add 12 new Civil Court judgeships throughout New York City to address backlogs in cases -- but excluded Staten Island.
Cleaning up after congestion pricing is messy — but worth it
Gov. Kathy Hochul found a billion dollars for the MTA without having to raise taxes or impose congestion pricing.
Albany pumps brakes on MTA funding plan in rebuke of Hochul's move to ditch congestion pricing
Albany lawmakers pumped the brakes on a last-ditch funding plan for the MTA on Friday -- in a major rebuke of Gov. Kathy Hochul's sudden move to scrap congestion pricing.
NY passes milestone ban on 'addictive' social media feeds for children
New York kids' social media feeds are about to get less "addictive."
Congestion pricing is a bad idea, raising taxes is even worse
Gov. Hochul says she’s going to make the MTA good for its loss of congestion-pricing-toll income, but Albany needs to find the money within the record-breaking budget it already has.
DEI = ‘Didn’t Earn It’, Europe’s harsh laws suppress speech and other commentary
“Perhaps a jeering minority will rid us of today’s most egregiously indefensible phrase: ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,’” hopes John Tierney at City Journal.
NY push to restrict kids’ ‘addictive’ social media feeds could go viral across the US
New York parents soon could gain control over their kids' social media scrolls.
Progressives’ next goal: normalizing sexploitation with legal 'sex work'
New York will never eradicate prostitution. But that doesn’t mean New York should normalize and encourage it, as it is has done with marijuana.
NYC lawmaker blocks Steve Cohen's $8B casino project by Mets' Citi Field
Steve Cohen’s Mets are losers — and so is apparently his Queens casino bid, at least for now.
‘De-whiting NY’: North Africans, Middle Easterners would lose 'white' status under state bill
A controversial bill being pushed by lefty legislators in Albany is trying to make the Empire State less “white,” critics say.
Albany's push to close legal loophole that let Harvey Weinstein off the hook appears to be in limbo
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie hasn't said whether the lower chamber will take up the measure.
NY senator with history of violence has to be restrained after he shoves lobbyist out of committee room: sources
Sources say Michael Carey, an Albany lobbyist, was having an impassioned conversation with Parker before the Energy and Telecommunications Committee meeting Wednesday when the Senator grabbed Carey by the chest...
Mets owner Steve Cohen lines up support for $8 billion casino project next to Citi Field
It was all a bid woo resistant state Sen. Jessica Ramos to support the project and rezone the land for development.
Lefty Manhattan pols back rent control for the rich — under false pretense of helping middle class
A bill being pushed by Manhattan state Sen. Liz Krueger and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal offers rent control for the rich -- under the pretense of protecting middle-class New Yorkers.
Proposed law would limit massive rent hike at Billionaire's Row Co-Op, other buildings
A proposed state law seeks to prevent skyrocketing rental costs for 25,000 co-op apartment dwellers who live in buildings with ground leases.
NYC pol says law allowing rape suit against him was unconstitutional — despite voting for the legislation
A Brooklyn state senator claims the law allowing a rape lawsuit against him to move forward was unconstitutional — even though he actually voted for the legislation and then bragged...
The EmPIRE Act would kill NY small businesses
We're plenty worried about crime in general, but we don't argue for legalizing vigilantes.
NY pols take aim at squatters with ‘crystal clear’ laws favoring homeowners after series of takeovers
New York lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have introduced a flurry of legislation taking aim at the issue of squatters plaguing law-abiding homeowners all over the state.
NYC GOP energized by record number of Asian-American candidates ‘stepping up’ for statehouse runs
More Asian-American voters in New York City have voted Republican in recent years -- and now a record number are taking matters into their own hands by running as GOP...