October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It’s an opportunity to not just put up fliers and circulate hotline numbers, but to talk about things that are too frequently unsaid. It is a chan…
New Yorkers could have affordable and quality health insurance but politicians are standing in the way.
The state’s highest court heard arguments Tuesday on a question: Are daily fantasy sports like those run by DraftKings and FanDuel, which allow people to plunk down money to assemble personali…
In the old days, the Committee on Open Government was an advocate for the people, even though it was couched in a government department overseen by the governor’s office.
ALBANY (TNS) — A year ago, health care workers were the undisputed heroes of the pandemic, and rightly so.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attended last week’s Met Gala wearing a dress emblazoned with the slogan “Tax the Rich.” It’s certainly catchier than what would have been a more appropriate slog…
When she took office three weeks ago, Gov. Hochul pledged to all that “transparency will be the hallmark of my administration.” She was explicit that “the public deserves a clear, honest pictu…
On March 31, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo passed the Marihuana Regulation and Tax Act legalizing adult use and possession of cannabis. To New Yorkers, this means that smoking and vaping cannabis n…
As President Biden toured the sites of calamitous flooding in New York and New Jersey, flanked by every imaginable local elected official, he had plenty to say about climate change. That it is…
We’re coming up on a month since Canada opened its border to non-essential travel by vaccinated Americans. The United States has failed to reciprocate.
ALBANY (AP) — Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned from office in disgrace, but there are 18 million reasons to believe he will remain a force in state politics.
Kathy Hochul’s first speech as governor of New York stuck to the tradition for initial inaugurals: blessedly brief, general themes, details (implicitly) to follow.
Shifting away from his Afghan debacle, President Biden went back Wednesday to that other war, COVID, with a two-prong attack on the enemy: Vaccines and masks.
The Assembly Judiciary Committee was right to say that impeachment would come off the table when Gov. Cuomo resigns early next week. Unlike the U.S.Constitution, the state’s highest legal docu…
SYRACUSE (TNS) — Women are about to dominate politics and government in New York state.
ALBANY (TNS) — New York will be better for this. Andrew Cuomo had to go.
NEW YORK — When President Richard Nixon was neck deep in the Watergate scandal and faced impeachment in the House of Representatives and a trial in the U.S. Senate, Tricky Dick said he would n…
Once again there is a bipartisan chorus of calls — from throughout New York state and even from the White House — for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign after Tuesday’s release of a report detailing …
ALBANY (TNS) — Team Cuomo keeps pushing its newly favored narrative: Attorney General Letitia James wants to be governor and is overseeing a tainted investigation.
When it comes to assessing New York’s reformed bail laws, everyone from the NYPD to mayoral candidates to Gov. Cuomo has their own version of the truth. In Nassau County, Republican district a…
