New York

Actually, New York IS coming for your gas stove
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
TOM WROBLESKI Staten Island Advance 
Mar 26, 2023
NEW YORK (TNS) — When is a ban on gas stoves not a ban on gas stoves? When New York lawmakers want to tell you that it isn’t. They can frame it any wa...
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Keep hiking despite SVB turmoil
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York, ...
Mar 17, 2023
Last week, after hawkish testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, markets penciled in a half-point increase in interest rates following the...
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Time to rethink government bailouts
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York, ...
Mar 16, 2023
The demise of Silicon Valley Bank has put the U.S. government into an uncomfortable position, backstopping depositors like never before to prevent a b...
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Adopt transparency, open government in NY
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Mar 14, 2023
It’s Sunshine Week, a nationwide annual occurrence when open government advocates and the press push for greater transparency in how the public’s busi...
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People say the silliest things about charter schools
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Mar 14, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to lift a cap on charter schools. That’s a good idea, albeit a rather modest one, but you wouldn’t know it by t...
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Firing blanks against fraudster Santos
New York, Opinion
Mar 10, 2023
Thanks to the presence of George Santos (or Anthony Devolder or any other alias the con man may be using) being a freshman member of Congress from New...
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Pass bill for WTC responders and survivors
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York, ...
Mar 01, 2023
After years of effort from this column and elsewhere, in 2010 Congress created the World Trade Center Health Program and then in 2015 voted to keep it...
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NY lawmakers don’t want to hear David Soares
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Feb 27, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — David Soares and I have had our differences and disagreements over the years, but I would certainly acknowledge that he’s worth hearing...
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Albany’s minimum-wage bidding war
New York, Opinion
Feb 24, 2023
It’s a bidding war in Albany when it comes to boosting the state’s minimum wage — with the needs of New York’s economy, and of the vast illegal-migran...
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Hochul bets big on horse racing
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Feb 15, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to hand the Buffalo Bills $650 million for a new stadium was an absurdly generous giveaway, but at least w...
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Remembering the great Frederick Douglass
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York, ...
Feb 15, 2023
Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his birthdate. All Americans should...
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George Santos and justice
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York, ...
BYRON YORK 
Feb 15, 2023
Some Republicans have entreated House GOP leaders: Can’t we get rid of this guy? Can’t we just kick him out? The guy, of course, is Rep. George Santos...
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