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NY State Ed's pathetic response to rising chronic absenteeism in schools: We'll stop tracking it
For years now, we've been slamming the State Education Department and its rulers, the state Board of Regents, as having turned against anything resembling excellence, but we're still sꦓhocked at...
Upstate NY Democrat launches write-in campaign after primar🐷y loss, breaks with party on bail reform
Albany County District Attorney David Soares, who has been in office since 2005, is campaigning again after los📖ing a June party primary to rival Lee Kindlon by 1ꦰ0-percentage points.
Assembly speaker's girlfriend snags a job at Albany lobbying shop
Rebecca Lamorte lost her job with Greater New York LECET in what the company 🌳called a reorganization🐬 in June -- several months after her powerful beau angrily fended off questions...
NY Assembly speaker wants answers after labor group lays off his lobbyi♍sꦇt girlfriend
The powerful Bronx pol called up Mike Hellstrom, the co-chairman of Greater New York LECET, last month inquiring about w🤪hy his girlfriend, Rebecca LaMorte, had been let go, sources confirmed... ℱ
NY Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie blocked bill that would have closed rape law loophole despite surge 🦹in sex assaults 𒐪
The Assembly speaker quietly blocked a bill that would have criminalized having sex with people w🎃ho are too drunk to consent, insiders told The Post.
NY needs to ou✅tlaw masking at protests NOW before more antisem🐻itic goons run wild
Masks are being abused in total KKK style: AG James has a duty🐻 to reverse course -- especially if she wants to keep any hope of winning higher office.
NYC crime wave continues with 21,000-plus shoplifting complaints for 2024 so far, all🐎 thanks to lefty Dems 📖
Shoplift🐬ing is up 5% over last year, part of the NYC crime wave. Thank lefty Dems like Carl Heastie.
Albany must address the 🌠deadly surge in youth violence
Last week two teens killed and at least six more wounded in shootings and stabbings across the city, again flags the ꦰfailure of Albany’s soft-on-crime approach.
Now NO ONE truly really runs New York City's public school system
CUNY Graduate Center Profꦰ. David Bloomfield described the plan as a “putrid ketꦓtle of fish cooked up by the Legislature.”
Blame shoplifting♌ scourge, blasé lawmakers for worst case of storefront vacancies since COVID
Per the city Department of Finance, more th🍒an 11% of Big Apple storefronts now sit empty, discouraging nearby commerce and attracting d𝓡isorder.
WH's John Kirby flips reality on Iran, AG Merrick Garland goes blind to Biden's 'impairment' and more
White House National Security spokesman John 🐷Kirby claimed that Iran listened to President Biden's warning to "not escalate" after Israel killed G🍎en. Mohammad Reza Zahedi — despite the attack it...
𓆏 NYPD fights back against illegal vendors — but pro-crime pols must g🌱et out of the way
The NYPD swooped in on an illegal vendor enclave in Queens. Gre📖at news! But we need pro-🔯crime pols here and in Albany to get out of the way.
Soft-on-crime NY Spe🌠aker Heastie finally caves on increased 💝penalties for assaulting retail workers
The reversal come🎃s as Heastie, and lawmakers in gen💮eral, are facing pressure to react to a rise in increasing violent crime.
🥃 Man who punched 9-year🌠-old girl in Grand Central was enabled by soft-on-crime Dems
What kind of sicko sucker-punches a child? Bettꦏer que👍stion: What kind of depraved society helps him do it?
Hochul announces preliminary agreeꦗment on $237B NY state budget -- with new measures on shoplifting
The preliminary plan would also allow prosecutors to hit repeat retail thieves with felony charges, and includes measures to crack down on illegal pot sto🐻res and kick start housing production...
Hochul, legislative leaders come to i﷽nitial agreement on landmark housing deal
ꦫ Gov. Kathy Hochul and top state lawmakers st🏅ruck a housing deal Friday, clearing a major hurdle for state budget negotiations that have dragged on nearly two weeks past deadline, sources...
Critics furious over Hochul, Heastie plan to crack down on NY's $8 billion home care Medicaid program: 'Recipe for corruption'
Critics are furious about Gov. Kathy Hochul and state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie's new plan to crack down on New York's alle♈gedly fraud-ridden $8 bi⛄llion Medicaid homecare program.
It's time to end Albany's destructive micromanagement of NYC schools
This obscene, venal f𒈔arce m💛ust end: Mayoral control should be made permanent. Let New York City run New York City schools.
Too soft: Carl Heastie faces GOP challenger fed up over crime stands, ba👍il policies
"Heastie needs to be ▨held responsible for the policies 🌜he implemented -- first and foremost bail reform," Stepanie Liggio told The Post.
Some NY state lawma꧂ꦫkers skip town to catch solar eclipse as late budget negotiations drag on
Some New Yorkඣ state legislators skipped town Monday to watch the solar eclipse -- even as negotiations on the already-late budget continue🐎 to drag on.