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Legislation aimed at disclosing where guns used in crimes were purchased has been introduced in the state Senate. The bill, S.8303, would require the Department of Criminal Justice Services and State Police to publish quarterly reports on the use of firearms in criminal activity in New York. Information included in […]
Long ago I nicknamed the Independent Democratic Conference “The Traitors.” That’s because these people who ran as Democrats actually kept the Republicans who control the Senate in very Blue State New York in power. Many people, including Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, have called out Governor Andrew Cuomo for his […]
A proposal to toughen penalties for drivers without valid licenses who kill or injure other motorists or pedestrians passed the Senate on Monday. The legislation (S.3299/A.3759) was introduced by Sen. Michael Gianaris, D- Queens, after the 2013 death of eight-year-old Noshat Nahian by an unlicensed driver. According to The New […]
Pet dealers in New York would no longer be able to sell dogs or cats bred in “puppy mills” or “kitten mills” if a bill proposed by Sen. Michael Gianaris and Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell is passed. The bill, (S.7711/A.09946), sponsored by Gianaris, D-Queens, and O’Donnell, D-Manhattan, would ban pet stores […]
Senator Michael Gianaris introduced legislation that would add immigration status to the list of protected classes in the state’s Human Rights and Civil Right Laws. Gianaris’s proposal (S.963) would make it a violation to discriminate against a person based on immigration status and would expand current civil remedies for […]