#Albany lawmakers pass bills aimed at cleaning up housing bias

#Albany lawmakers pass bills aimed at cleaning up housing bias

“#Albany lawmakers pass bills aimed at cleaning up housing bias” ALBANY — State Senate Democrats passed a package of bills Monday designed to clean up discriminatory and predatory practices in the housing market.  The 11 bills includes a measure that would require the state attorney general’s office to conduct a yearly investigation into how minorities…

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#New York lawmakers introduce capital gains measure

#New York lawmakers introduce capital gains measure

“#New York lawmakers introduce capital gains measure” ALBANY — Democratic state lawmakers keen on raising taxes on higher-income earners to help close the state’s massive, multi-billion dollar deficit have introduced a new bill that would place an extra tax on investments.  The new legislation — sponsored by Democrats state Sen. Gustavo Rivera (D-The Bronx) and…

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#Emails show top Cuomo aide dominates state’s vaccine program

#Emails show top Cuomo aide dominates state’s vaccine program

“#Emails show top Cuomo aide dominates state’s vaccine program” New York City health officials and their upstate counterparts are deeply frustrated with how top Cuomo aides have centralized and micromanaged vaccine distribution across the state. Cuomo brought back his former budget director Larry Schwartz — who sits on the MTA’s board and serves as the…

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#Andrew Cuomo’s sad State of the State speech

#Andrew Cuomo’s sad State of the State speech

“#Andrew Cuomo’s sad State of the State speech” Entering the back half of his third term amid a pandemic he’s badly mishandled, Gov. Andrew Cuomo offered a truly sad State of the State Address on Monday, full of empty noise and short on serious new ideas. He kicked off the 45-minute speech with a rehash…

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#Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature get desperate for cash

#Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature get desperate for cash

“#Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature get desperate for cash” Money hunger is raging in Albany, trumping all other policy concerns. The greed is so bad that the state risks turning legalized pot and online-betting into money losers. Amid falling tax revenues and a growing projected budget deficit, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has embraced legal weed and…

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#Slamming landlords leaves NYC’s housing on brink of disaster

#Slamming landlords leaves NYC’s housing on brink of disaster

“#Slamming landlords leaves NYC’s housing on brink of disaster” New York’s politicians have rushed to safeguard tenants during the pandemic and lockdowns, with multiple protections against eviction and guarantees that you don’t have to pay rent — without facing the fact that cutting off landlords’ income is courting other kinds of disaster. State lawmakers just…

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#DC media group buys NY’s City & State, plans expansion

#DC media group buys NY’s City & State, plans expansion

“#DC media group buys NY’s City & State, plans expansion” A DC-based news agency for politicians and bureaucrats has acquired City & State, a media business covering New York state and local politics for elected officials and government workers. Terms of the acquisition by Government Executive Media Group were not disclosed. But the company behind…

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#Albany’s planning more pain for New York in 2021

#Albany’s planning more pain for New York in 2021

“#Albany’s planning more pain for New York in 2021” Fasten your seatbelts for the new year, New York: With Democrats now boasting veto-proof supermajorities in both the Assembly and the state Senate, and several Democratic Socialists joining the ranks, the left is emboldened — and that spells big trouble. “We recognize the mandate we’ve been…

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