Several weeks ago, I suggested on the radio that Donald Trump, who I believe has no bottom, might be planning a coup to subvert our American democracy. I didn’t say that there would be a coup, rather, I suggested that there might be. Now I believe that my words have […]
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SUNY completes mandatory Thanksgiving exit testing of on-campus students, chancellor says
Two days before Thanksgiving, State University of New York Chancellor Jim Malatras announced that SUNY campuses have finished mandatory testing of students on campus with 152,788 tests conducted with a positivity rate of 0.63 percent between November 9 and November 23. SUNY Upstate Medical University will process the remaining tests […]
Cuomo signs anti-SLAPP law to protect free speech in New York
Legislative Gazette file photo The New York State Court of Appeals On November 10th, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the legislation S.52A/A.5991A into law that would protect New Yorkers’ First Amendment rights from strategic lawsuits aimed at intimidating critics, journalists, or activists. In a SLAPP lawsuit, an acronym for a […]
Metzger concedes in close race for 42nd Senate District
Sen. Jen Metzger on Tuesday conceded the race for the 42nd Sate Senate District following a prolonged count of mail-in ballots in the Hudson Valey and Catskills. Three weeks after Election Day, most of the approximately 30,000 absentee and affidavit ballots have been counted. Metzger, a first-term Democrat, picked up […]
Live entertainment spaces get creative amidst prolonged shutdown
Live event spaces are still under heavy regulations eight months after the initial lockdown in New York state as a result of COVID-19 guidelines issued by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with lockdowns likely to become even more restrictive if coronavirus cases continue to spike this winter. As U.S. Sen Kirsten Gillibrand […]
Democrats claim victory in four close legislative races
As more absentee and mail-in ballots are counted across New York state, many close races are being called. Senator Anna Kaplan, D-Great Neck, will continue her service as State Senator for New York’s Seventh Senate District after Republican challenger Dave Franklin conceded the election. “This afternoon I received a call […]
LGBTQ+ groups ask governor to sign gender-neutral bathroom bill
More than 85 organizations and hundreds of individuals have signed on to a letter asking Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill that would designate many single-stall bathrooms in New York as gender-neutral. The bill (S.6479-a/A.5240-a) is modeled after California’s law and would require “all publicly accessible bathrooms, including those […]
Publisher’s Corner: Bernie belongs in the Senate, not Biden’s Cabinet
I have interviewed Bernie Sanders many times. Those opportunities mostly came when he was a member of Congress but when he became a Senator, he moved uptown and except for a few opportunities, he didn’t need me and the public radio audience. He had the national media begging for interviews. […]