Covering the politics, policies and people of New York State government.
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 […]
As Americans root for Team USA at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, R-Staten Island, wants to exempt athletes from New York’s “insatiable hunger for tax revenue.” The assemblywoman said she will introduce legislation next session to eliminate the state tax on income earned as […]