I don’t want to toot my own horn but I have been saying for some time that one of the most disgraceful things Andrew Cuomo and his lackeys in the Legislature have ever done was depriving Comptroller Tom DiNapoli of some his audit functions over state development projects. You […]
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On Judith Clark issue, Cuomo can have his cake and eat it too
By all accounts, Judith Clark is a remarkable human being. Now 67, she was incarcerated at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in New York for the past thirty-five years. All kinds of good people have called for her release. At one time as a member of the Weather […]
State will spend $213 million to fight opioid addiction
On April 19 at the THRIVE Long Island Recovery Center in Hauppauge, Long Island, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that will allocate $213 million for drug recovery institutions and programs statewide to battle the current heroin and opioid epidemic, which he calls “the worst drug scourge this nation has […]
Ten reasons why Andrew Cuomo might (or might not) be president
Reason One: He’s mean enough. You have to be mean to be president. That way people are afraid of you because they think if they cross you, you’ll get even. Presidents have a lot of power. Donald Trump is mean and Andrew Cuomo is mean. Barack Obama was an […]
SUNY students recognize magnitude of new tuition program, but also raise practical concerns
More than 940,000 families will qualify for tuition-free college at SUNY and CUNY schools once fully implemented Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Excelsior Scholarship program, which will provide free tuition to undergraduate students attending SUNY and CUNY schools beginning this fall, was signed into law at LaGuardia Community College in […]
Officials mourn death of Court of Appeals justice
State court system begins accepting nominees to fill vacancy left by Abdus-Salaam’s death The first African-American women to serve on the New York State Court of Appeals was found in the Hudson River Wednesday near the shoreline at 132nd Street and pronounced dead not far from her home in […]
Governor’s message to the middle class: ‘We want to see you do well’
Under the recently adopted budget, tax cuts, tax credits and investments in education are all apart of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s goal to revive the middle class and give millennials an incentive to invest their future in New York. “With this budget, New York is once again leading the nation […]
Undocumented, part-time and disabled students rally for inclusion in governor’s free college program
Legislators and student advocates of the CORE coalition (College Opportunity and Resource Expansion) rallied to ensure that Governor Cuomo’s Excelsior Scholarship program include undocumented students, part time students and students with disabilities. The Excelsior Scholarship, announced in January, would cover tuition costs for students whose families earn less than $125,000 […]