Covering the politics, policies and people of New York State government.
So, after Donald Trump said during his campaign that Preet Bharara should be reappointed, he has now fired the man. Bharara, of course, was not only the best U.S. Attorney in the country and a hero of epic proportions, he was also a modern day Eliot Ness. The list […]
Andrew and Donald, the saga continues. It turns out that Andrew, slick dude that he is, has lucked out. He thought that Hillary would be president. He was wrong or possibly just playing it cagey. Then the heat got turned up and everyone wanted to know what and when Andrew […]
President Donald Trump fired U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Saturday after the prosecutor refused to step down along with 45 other Obama holdovers who were asked by the Justice Department to resign. Bharara has been a hero to those in New York who appreciated his tough stance on public corruption, […]
Senator Brad Hoylman, D–Manhattan, is taking action against the Trump Administration’s recent rollback of transgender protection laws. The senator has introduced a new bill on March 3 that would protect New York’s transgender youth by codifying certain protections under state law. Hoylman’s bill (S.4843) would permanently adopt the Title […]
VOTERS GIVE CUOMO HIS BEST FAVORABILITY AND JOB PERFORMANCE RATINGS IN MORE THAN TWO YEARS SUPPORT REMAINS STRONG FOR MILLIONAIRE’S TAX, RIDESHARING, LIMITING LEGISLATORS’ OUTSIDE INCOME, FREE SUNY/CUNY TUITION FOR MIDDLE CLASS AND TERM LIMITS For the first time in more than two years, 60 percent of New Yorkers […]
With the Trump Administration focused on a range of immigration enforcement policies, Assembly Democrats have passed a series of bills that would protect immigrants’ private information, prohibit profiling by local police departments, and make it more difficult to deport undocumented New Yorkers for misdemeanor crimes. Alongside these new bills, […]
There are people who think that Donald Trump is stupid. Well, yes and no. A stupid person doesn’t care about the deteriorating climate in the world. A stupid person doesn’t want people at the lower end of the social spectrum to have health care while claiming that they themselves […]
We all know that Hillary won the popular vote so you would think that Donald J. Trump would get the message and maybe meet those in the majority who voted for her sort of halfway. In New York where I work and in Massachusetts where I live, there are many, […]