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Here's how much each NY state resident will have to fork over in taxes to cover migrant crisis bill
October 14, 2024 | 7:19pmThe en💜tire tax bill paid by 328,471 New Yorkers would be required to cover the $2.3 billion in annual state costs for the migrant crisis, according to analysis by a...
Hochul's agency heads might get pay raises after it's revealed that NYC officials with similar titles make $50K more
October 11, 2024 | 12:03pmThe data about the low s𝓰tate pay was revealed during a hearing Thursday by a state commission charged with recommending raises for lawmakers and other pols, such as the governor,...
NY Dems 🌄quietly dismiss harassment claims against pol challenging Republi🍷can in closely watched House race — while offering little details
August 29, 2024 | 7:18pmNew York Democrats quietly dismissed harassment allegations against state Sen. John Ma🍌nnion -- who is running in a closely watch🐻ed congressional race -- but are refusing to provide details of...
NY GOP hopeful campaigns for transgender sports ban -- and she could have lots o𓂃f company
August 25, 2024 | 7:54pm“Sixty-six percent of New Yorkers recently surveyed said they want Girls Sports left alone, but radical progressives, like my opponent State Senator Pete Harkham, think they know better than the..ꦡ.
MTA boss 'thrilled' Hochul eyeing lower congestion toll after gov indefinitely paused controversial scheme
August 22, 2024 | 6:47pm🍎 MTA boss Janno Lieber and Manhattan lawmakers are "thrilled" that Gov. Kathy Hochul will propose a plan by year's end to fund the MTA's massive capital program that could include...
By eyeing new tolls after Election Day, Gov. Hochul broadcasts contempt for New York voters 🧸
August 19, 2024 | 6:48pmGov. Hochul is mulling a reduced-priced congestion-pricing toll that exempts city union workers, reports The Post's Carl Campanile — after the November 🍬election. 💃
NY pols push casino p🅘lan to aid MTA as congestion toll mayh🏅em reigns
June 11, 2024 | 1:21pmSpeeding up the selection process for the metro area's three casino licenses could generate billions of dollars in much-needed r♊evenue for the MTA after Gov𒆙. Kathy Hochul stalled the congestion...
'Republican' Staten Island excluded from getting more judges under Dem NY bill: 'Blatantly disproportionate'
June 10, 2024 | 6:11pmThe Democratic-led state Legislature pas🍌sed a bill to add 12 new Civil Court judgeships throughout New York City to address b🌄acklogs in cases -- but excluded Staten Island.
Cl🌜eaning up after con꧒gestion pricing is messy — but worth it
June 7, 2024 | 8:27pmGov. Kathy Hochul found a billion dolꦅlars for the MTA without having t𝄹o raise taxes or impose congestion pricing.
Albany pumps brakes on MTA funding plan in rebuke of Hochul's move to ditch congestion pricing
June 7, 2024 | 6:45pmAlbany lawmakers pumped the brakes on a last-ditch funding plan for the MTA on Friday -- in a major rebuඣke of Gov. Kathy Hochul's sudden move to scrap congestion pricing.
NY passes milestone ban on 'addictive' social media feeds for children
June 7, 2024 | 5:01pmNew York kids' social media feeds are about to get less "addictiv🐎e."
Congestion pri🔯cing is a bad idea, raising taxes is even worse
June 6, 2024 | 7:36pmGov. Hochul says she’s going to make the MTA good for i🌊ts loss of congestion-pricing-toll income, but Albany needs to find the mon🍸ey within the record-breaking budget it already has.
💫 DEI = ‘Didn’t Earn It’, Europe’s harsh laws suppress speech and other commentary
June 5, 2024 | 4:42pm“Perhaps a jeering minority will rid us of today’s most egregiously indefensible phrase: ‘Dive🔯rsity, Equity and🦩 Inclusion,’” hopes John Tierney at City Journal.
NY push to restrict kids’ ‘addictive’ social media feeds could go viral ཧacross the US
June 4, 2024 | 2:30pmNew York parents soon coꦚuld gain control over their kids' social meꦆdia scrolls.
Progressives’ next goal: normalizing sexploitation with legal 'sex work'
May 29, 2024 | 2:27pmNew York will never eradicate prost﷽itution. But that doesn’t mean New York should normalize and encourage it, as it is has done wܫith marijuana.
NYC lawmaker blocks Steve Cohen's $8B casino project by Mets' Citi Field
May 28, 2024 | 3:48pmSteve Cohen’s Mets are losers — and so is apparently his Queens casino bid, at least for now. 🗹
‘De-whiting NY’: North Africans, Middle Easterners would lose 'white' status under state bill
May 25, 2024 | 3:26pmA controversial bill being pushed by lefty legislators in Albany is trying to ma💃ke the Empire Stat꧙e less “white,” critics say.
Albany's push to close legal loophole that let Harvey Weinstein off the hook appears to be in limbo
May 21, 2024 | 7:41pmꩲ Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie hasn't said whether the lower chamber will take up the measure.
NY senator with history of violence has to be restrained after he shoves🌟 lobbyist out of committee 🔯room: sources
May 15, 2024 | 5:00pmSources say Micꦛhael Carey, an Albany lobbyist, was having an⭕ impassioned conversation with Parker before the Energy and Telecommunications Committee meeting Wednesday when the Senator grabbed Carey by the chest...
📖 Mets owner Steve Cohe🌟n lines up support for $8 billion casino project next to Citi Field
May 13, 2024 | 11:46pmIt was all a bid woo resistant state Sen. Jessica Ramos to support the project and rezone the land for development. 𓄧