New York City may be the next gambler — and next victim — to ante up to the delusion that casinos are the golden pot at the end of the economic rainbow.
Author: Luke Parsnow
Luke Parsnow
Luke Parsnow is a digital content producer at Spectrum News CNY and an award-winning columnist at The Syracuse New Times. In his blog, "Things That Matter," he discusses topics that you should know about in today's society.
“Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country,” President Donald Trump said in his State of the Union address in February. “Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” It was a statement that seemed like something more fit for an American president in the early 1980s. And yet, the acceptance of socialism or socialist-like policies has entered a new cycle of appeal to a segment of the American population. And it’s being fronted by young people. Whether they’re trying to merely play politics or genuinely trying to defend capitalism, Trump and his Republican followers and conservative media allies have seized on this…
“JCOPE? More like JOKE. The panel, unsurprisingly, is appointed by the very politicians that it is supposed to include in its oversight.
Splitting New York State in two isn’t a new idea, but it may be more complicated — and potentially damaging — than some supporters expect.
An emergency room is appropriately titled. We are always there for something serious and urgent. We don’t call it a “mild illness room” or a “can wait until later room.” It’s an emergency room. We’re not in an emergency room right now, but we are in an apparent national emergency. After a two-month-long legislative battle over funds for construction of a wall on the southern border, President Donald Trump recently declared a national emergency over the matter. Trump intends to divert as much as $6.7 billion from other programs to fund a wall on the Mexican border. It’s a move…
Bernie Sanders, the candidate who captured progress hearts in 2016, is more than capable of doing it again in the 2020 presidential election.
The people of the United States will always disagree on how large a role the federal government should have. But they’re much more likely to find common ground on how long that role should be played out. At the beginning of this year, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz spearheaded a resolution for a constitutional amendment that would impose term limits for both houses of Congress: two six-year terms for senators and three two-year terms for members of in the House of Representatives. Cruz’s resolution is one of at least nine proposals for term limits that have come forward in the new…
The disagreement on the Amazon deal seems like the first time in a long time that the Legislature has flexed its muscle as a co-equal branch of government.
People depend on newsrooms to tell them who is responsible for what. That’s what Gov. Andrew Cuomo now wants to take away by making mug shots private.
“The new senator is already being floated as a presidential candidate.” That was the sub-headline of a story in The New Republic about California Sen. Kamala Harris. “No rising Democratic star has been more hyped than Kamala Harris,” the story goes on to say. The date on that story? Jan. 12, 2017. Donald Trump hadn’t even been inaugurated president yet and Harris had only been a sitting senator for nine days. And while that may seem early, The Washington Post ran a story with the headline “Is Kamala Harris the next Barack Obama?” all the way back in January 2015. Harris announced two weeks ago that…
With one New Yorker already in the White House, another one hopes to replace him. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced that she is running for president in 2020, joining an already crowded field of Democratic candidates hoping to take on Donald Trump. The move ends years of speculation and expectation of her Oval Office ambitions. Indeed, President Trump had barely been inaugurated in 2017 when many experts believed Gillibrand was gearing up for a bid, ranking her high on shortlists of possible contenders. Just two months ago during a debate, Gillibrand had to fend off questions about the White House and…
Republican and Democratic leaders should stop considering the moronic tactic of shutting down the government in the future as a means to a political end.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claims he won’t try to end the shutdown unless he gets the high sign from Trump that a bill will go through.
While live-tweeting President Donald Trump’s first Oval Office address to the nation on Jan. 8 and the Democratic rebuttal from Sen. Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a viewer replied to one of my tweets: “Reporters should not be sending biased tweets.” My tweet said: “Nancy Pelosi in rebuttal to #TrumpAddress: The fact is, President Trump must stop holding the American people hostage, stop manufacturing an emergency, and reopen the government.” It’s rhetoric. It’s hyperbolic. It’s a statement from a politician. But it is not bias to report that she said it. During another particular event in the early…
Like a broken record, columnists Luke Parsnow once again calls for a reckoning on corruption in the state Legislature as we head into 2019.