“JCOPE? More like JOKE. The panel, unsurprisingly, is appointed by the very politicians that it is supposed to include in its oversight.
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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…
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…
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.
With one New Yorker already in the White House, another one hopes to replace him. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced that…
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…
Like a broken record, columnists Luke Parsnow once again calls for a reckoning on corruption in the state Legislature as we head into 2019.
From Sen. Kevin Parker to Mayor Denis Langlois to President Donald Trump, government officials should be held accountable for what they say online.
Members of the New York state Legislature have been trying for 20 years to get a pay raise. Now that…
The Wisconsin Republicans committed political malpractice boiling down to “The people voted for the guy we didn’t want, so now we have to change the rules.”