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The Family Fortune Behind Elise Stefanik’s Humble Origins Myth
The Daily Beast· 6 days agoSince her first campaign for Congress, Elise Stefanik has downplayed her parents’ wealth—and the...
New York Housing Deal Critics Spin Themselves Silly
The Real Deal· 4 days agoThe Assembly and Senate invited them by floating the terms — a strategy to gauge people’s reactions before shaking hands with Gov. Kathy Hochul on a...
New York’s Overlapping Price Gouging Laws
The National Law Review· 6 days agoOn June 24, 2021, New York celebrated the lifting on most COVID-19 restrictions. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the COVID-19 state of emergency would officially ...
Corruption or Just Politics? Supreme Court Weighs New Bribery Case as More Clashes Are Brewing
The Wall Street Journal· 4 days agoWASHINGTON—The Supreme Court for years has been making it more challenging for prosecutors to bring...
New York State Enacts Law Prohibiting Religious Discrimination Based on Appearance
The National Law Review· 5 days agoOn the heels of enacting a law to prohibit hairstyle discrimination, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a bill that amends the New York ...
New York State budget to allow NYC to lower speed limits in win for street safety advocates
New York Daily News· 1 day agoLegislation moving control of New York City’s speed limits from the state to the city has been...
Gold Bar Sen. Bob Menendez hires shrink who testified for double child murderer ahead of corruption...
New York Post· 3 days agoChris Christie, in the “Bridgegate” case as well as Joseph Percoco, an aide to former New York Gov. ...
New York Employees Get Up To Three Hours of Paid Time Off to Vote
The National Law Review· 2 days agoA revision to New York’s election law gives workers in the state up to three hours of paid time off to vote, Governor Andrew Cuomo highlighted in an announcement ...
NPR suspends editor who accused network of liberal bias
Axios· 3 days agoNPR has suspended senior editor Uri Berliner after he wrote an essay deriding the network as having...
What happened to Secrets dance club at Guptill’s?
Albany Times Union· 3 days ago“COVID hit and (then-Gov. Andrew) Cuomo said all nonessential businesses had to close,” said Wes Guptill, who was a DJ at the club for nearly 40 years.