7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (207+ words) ALBANY – Gov. Kathy Hochul’s “State of the State” agenda for 2026 will include new policies barring ICE at “sensitive locations,” allowing upstate cities to test autonomous vehicles, a new downstate semiconductor chip design center and another tuition freeze for CUNY and…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (318+ words) It sure looks like The New York Times has some weird agenda when it reports on apparent petty theft involving at least 130 state legislators — but only names one... who’s already been voted out of office. The paper reports in great…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (777+ words) They’re pensioning off New York’s future. Powerful public-sector unions scored their $557 million sweetheart pension giveaway after an election-year pressure campaign aimed at Gov. Kathy Hochul and Albany lawmakers that cashed in on labor’s long support for statewide Democrats. The ultimate…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago   (242+ words) It’s great that Gov. Kathy Hochul now means to opt New York into the federal school-choice scholarship program — a win for schoolchildren at no cost to the state — but why is she hedging from the start? The governor broke the…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (440+ words) Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to lower auto insurance rates by cracking down on fraud is one of the hurdles keeping Albany from passing a budget, which is now nearly a month late. Yet why is such a plan even controversial?...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (307+ words) It’s a mystery fit for Sherlock Holmes: Where New York’s governor will come up with the cash to fill the yawning gap in her proposed state budget? When Gov. Kathy Hochul opens up the book Tuesday on next year’s spending,…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (542+ words) She’s playing it safe. Gov. Kathy Hochul looked poised to tap-dance around thorny election-year issues in her 2026 “State of the State” address Tuesday, focusing instead on crowd-pleasing measures such as universal child care. The State of the State agenda released…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (403+ words) Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed another bill that would have recognized the sovereignty of a Long Island Native American group — riling tribal leaders who said the Democrat “just doesn’t get it.” Hochul’s move to block the Montaukett Indian Nation from getting…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (165+ words) Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is tapping a controversial lawyer —who describes himself as a “social justice attorney” — to head up the city’s Law Department. Steven Banks, who served as Bill de Blasio’s homeless services director, is expected to be named corporation…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (486+ words) He’s Dante de Nepobaby. Lefty former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s son Dante de Blasio recently scored a plum gig as the political director of a union repping 17,000 restaurant workers, despite his relatively thin resume. The younger de Blasio, 29, quietly revealed…...