#Take away de Blasio’s emergency COVID powers, too

#Take away de Blasio’s emergency COVID powers, too

“#Take away de Blasio’s emergency COVID powers, too” Hand it to city Comptroller Scott Stringer for catching out Mayor de Blasio in a bit of rank hypocrisy, by demanding he live up to his own stated principles on the need to end pandemic-emergency powers. De Blasio this month joined the chorus calling for the end…

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#NYC district attorneys’ bogus gesture on subway safety

#NYC district attorneys’ bogus gesture on subway safety

“#NYC district attorneys’ bogus gesture on subway safety” The city’s district attorneys say they’ll prosecute spitting on transit workers, but not smoking weed or urinating in the subway — which shows how clueless the prosecutors are about what makes it dangerous underground. The DAs were showing support for a state bill to make saliva-assaults easier…

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#Why isn’t Biden a Nazi, too and other commentary

#Why isn’t Biden a Nazi, too and other commentary

“#Why isn’t Biden a Nazi, too and other commentary” Iconoclast: Why Isn’t Biden a Nazi, Too? The left acted like President Trump “was always either embodying the evils of the Second World War or propelling humanity into a third,” but now that President Biden is “doing a lot of the same things,” it’s telling that…

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#Anti-Cuomo Johnny-come-latelies and other commentary

#Anti-Cuomo Johnny-come-latelies and other commentary

“#Anti-Cuomo Johnny-come-latelies and other commentary” Conservative: Anti-Cuomo Johnny-Come-Latelies New York’s liberal political class, including Mayor de Blasio, are turning against Gov. Cuomo and calling for his emergency powers to be revoked — “but why now?” asks The Federalist’s Christopher Bedford. De Blasio and others cite Cuomo’s withholding of nursing-home death data, but “that fact, you…

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#NYC’s new schools chancellor seems stuck on bad old priorities

#NYC’s new schools chancellor seems stuck on bad old priorities

“#NYC’s new schools chancellor seems stuck on bad old priorities” While educator Meisha Ross Porter will make history as the city’s first African American female schools chancellor, she’s already showing signs she’ll follow in the ill-fated footsteps of nearly gone Chancellor Richard Carranza. With enrollment cratering thanks to lockdowns that private and parochial schools managed…

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#Why Andrew Cuomo is falling on all fronts

#Why Andrew Cuomo is falling on all fronts

“#Why Andrew Cuomo is falling on all fronts” Suddenly, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s popularity and power are plummeting. But the fall has been building for months — and the sexual-harassment allegations that he’s so focused on handling (badly) are just the latest stick on the bonfire. Consider the Emerson College poll findings: Approval of his job performance…

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