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It’s been just seven months since New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sailed to a third term as chief executive of the Empire…
In the last few weeks, we’ve heard President Donald Trump say repeatedly that he is “the most transparent president in…
In February 2017, soon after states like neighboring Massachusetts and Vermont had legalized recreational marijuana, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo…
No one would ever want to show up to work one day, then find out that their place of employment had suddenly closed its…
It was four years ago this month when New York state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was arrested along with…
The New York state Department of Transportation has released its long-awaited draft environmental impact statement that named the community grid…
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went from an absolute nobody to one of Time magazine’s most influential people of the year…
For quite some time now, many people in power have launched seemingly never-ending attacks on the media, from denouncing anonymous…
Maybe our failure to curb mass shootings in the U.S. is because we rely on that “it can’t happen here” sentiment, even though it keeps proving us wrong.
If representatives make a health care plan with bipartisan support, maybe the very issue that established our modern political division can be what ends it.
The demise of retail giant Sears after it filed for bankruptcy in October 2018 is an example of what happens when you commit to generous benefits.
This year, a whole bunch of policies were lined up for the New York State Budget process, but that’s not the way it should work.
President Donald Trump has taken credit for raising funds for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative — something he originally wanted to slash.
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.