#Times Square crowds show NYC returning to life

#Times Square crowds show NYC returning to life

“#Times Square crowds show NYC returning to life” Here’s something we never expected to cheer: The Mickey Mice are back in Times Square, along with the Batmen and other buskers, including the accept-no-substitutes Naked Cowboy. It’s a joy because it means the Crossroads of the World has returned to life. As The Post’s Steve Cuozzo…

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#Don’t raise corporate taxes and other commentary

#Don’t raise corporate taxes and other commentary

“#Don’t raise corporate taxes and other commentary” Economist: Don’t Raise Corporate Taxes Even if President Biden wanted to raise revenue to address America’s “mountain of debt” (rather than for his dubious $2.3 trillion “infrastructure” plan), hiking corporate taxes “is the wrong way to go about it,” contends Allison Schrager at City Journal. The Trump tax…

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#Andrew Cuomo extends no-alcohol-without-food rule

#Andrew Cuomo extends no-alcohol-without-food rule

“#Andrew Cuomo extends no-alcohol-without-food rule” Gov. Andrew Cuomo isn’t letting a nursing-home scandal and multiple allegations of sexual misconduct stop him from showing New Yorkers what arbitrary, power-hungry “leadership” looks like: He’s extending his no-alcohol-without-food rule through May 6. His aides suggest it’s a bone to the restaurant industry that his lockdown orders have devastated….

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#New York’s lockdown self-harm and other commentary

#New York’s lockdown self-harm and other commentary

“#New York’s lockdown self-harm and other commentary” Economy desk: NY’s Lockdown Self-Harm The “Great Lockdown” of 2020, laments The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, involved massive, “self-inflicted” harm — but some states fared better than others. “States that allowed businesses to reopen sooner, and maintained fewer restrictions for the rest of the year, recovered by…

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#Teachers’ unions don’t care that closed schools are a harmful inequity

#Teachers’ unions don’t care that closed schools are a harmful inequity

“#Teachers’ unions don’t care that closed schools are a harmful inequity” In New York City and nationally, school shutdowns without question do the most harm to minority, low-income and special-needs students. And it’s beyond outrageous that the teacher-union leaders who are behind the most egregious public-school closures pretend the opposite. They’re making things easier on…

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#Team Biden caves on Iran — and gets nothing in return

#Team Biden caves on Iran — and gets nothing in return

“#Team Biden caves on Iran — and gets nothing in return” Even before the “indirect” US-Iran talks in Vienna had finished up, Team Biden caved, with the State Department saying it’s ready to lift sanctions on the rogue regime to rejoin the nuclear deal — giving away all leverage without getting a thing in return. Spokesman…

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#De Blasio must order NYC teachers back to school

#De Blasio must order NYC teachers back to school

“#De Blasio must order NYC teachers back to school” It’s past time for Mayor Bill de Blasio to reopen all public schools, full time, shut down hybrid learning and end remote instruction. Period.   Instead, all he’s done is give parents one last chance to opt-in to in-person classes —because that’s the most United Federation…

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