Covering the politics, policies and people of New York State government.
Let’s review. I’ve been telling you all along that Andrew Cuomo is NOT my friend, despite the fact that I have spent many hours interviewing both him and his father on the radio. I have also constantly told you that Andrew, the prince of darkness, is not finished in politics. […]
One can only see this election as Donald Trump running against himself. He continued the thread that came out of the American Civil War. Slavery may have been abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, but all those who study the American sociology know that slavery was followed by Jim Crow […]
There are a bunch of self-styled Democrats in the New York State Senate who deserted the regular Democrats and formed their own conference known as the Independent Democratic Conference. They soon forged a relationship with the Republicans in the Senate and from time to time, they have saved the Republicans […]
Certain words from foreign languages are so universally used that they become part of the English language. Certainly one of my favorite Yiddish words that our language has adopted is “chutzpah” which means, more or less, “unbelievable gall.” It is often exemplified by the story of the kid who […]
Every time I turn around, someone is espousing a New York State Constitutional Convention. I think this is a very bad idea. If a Constitutional Convention were capable of cleaning up the huge New York State Constitution (more than 50,000 words) and removing stuff that should be in statute […]
My birthday is not until next July but Rich Azzopardi of Governor Cuomo’s press office has recently sent me a gift that should certainly be acknowledged. Azzopardi, who was once my student on The Legislative Gazette newspaper, now seems to be in charge of retributive tweeting for the governor. […]
New York state is not alone in its drug inundation. We’ve all been watching the heroin scourge threatening to drown us just as surely as the rising water levels in our oceans threaten the same thing. We really don’t understand why our children too often turn to drugs. I […]
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 […]