You’ve all heard of the “Three Tenors” who owned the world of opera. They were Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti. Then in the word of bluegrass, there were the “Three Pickers,” Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs and Ricky Skaggs. It really doesn’t get any better than those two threesomes. […]
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NYC voters prefer millionaire’s tax over congestion pricing as a way to fund public transit
By a solid 64-to-21 percent, registered New York City voters say they prefer a millionaires’ tax instead of a form of congestion pricing as the best way to raise money for mass transit, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. The poll numbers come just days after a panel was […]
Opinion: MTA and its riders can’t afford to wait
To the editor: While New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo continue to fight over who is responsible for management of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and how much each should contribute for funding the current $32 billion 2015-2019 Five Year Capital Plan, Washington […]
De Blasio’s numbers are down in latest Quinnipiac Poll
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s job approval rating is wilting in the summer heat and now stands at 50-to-42 percent, down from 60-to-34 percent just two months ago, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll released Monday. But Mayor de Blasio still tops his little-known Republican challenger, Assemblywoman Nicole […]
NYC bag tax dominates recent budget hearing
Both State Senator Simcha Felder and New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio share the same objective – a greener New York – but believe in different solutions. At the joint budget hearing on local government in Albany on January 30th, De Blasio and legislators spoke about a variety […]
Senate presses de Blasio on recent child protection failures
Two new bills would help prevent tragedies like Zymere Perkins and Mikey Guzman In light of two recent high-profile deaths attributed to negligence by the New York City’s Administration of Child Services, Zymere Perkins 6, and Michael Guzman 5, Mayor Bill de Blasio faced push back from state lawmakers […]
In politics, turnabout is fair play
There seems to be a fierce contest of wills between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo and there is a lot of speculation about both men looking for surrogates to defeat one another in their coming reelection campaigns. Neither man is particularly popular. De Blasio’s reputation among a […]
Among NYC voters, Cuomo gets higher approval rating than Mayor de Blasio
New York City voters disapprove of the job Mayor Bill de Blasio is doing by 51 to 42 percent, close to his lowest-ever 52 percent disapproval rating recorded in May. Fifty percent of the voters say he does not deserve reelection in 2017, according to a Quinnipiac University poll […]