The State of New York has a natural gas shortage, the result of years of the administration of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and environmentalists fighting the construction of new supply pipelines.
A June 2019 report by The Manhattan Institute documented the shortage and its causes, Out of Gas: New York’s Blocked...
The NRA has been under assault from liberal politicians and political groups for decades. But those attacks have intensified after the Parkland school shooting.
Student David Hogg, backed by powerful groups like Media Matters, launched a campaign to pressure companies to sever membership discount programs with the NRA. That campaign was largely...
On Wednesday, the New York State Education Department apologized for including an ‘anti-Israel’ political cartoon on its global studies Regents Exam.
The exam was administered to 10th graders back on January 24.
Anti-Israel and antisemitic propaganda are common on America’s college and university campuses. But as we’ve highlighted in a number of recent posts, this discriminatory and biased messaging and materials appears to be filtering down into the public education system.
In a post last April we noted how anti-Israel materials have been systematically introduced...
Donald Trump is hovering near a delegate trajectory that will gain him a majority of delegates on the first ballot, even though he will not come anywhere near a majority...
The State of New York just passed two significant measures. One is a new family leave policy and the other is a new minimum wage of $15 an hour.
Liberals are pretty stoked about both items. Smaller businesses, particularly in hard-hit upstate NY, not so much. Expect the people intended to...
This is no surprise, particularly given the dismal economic situation in upstate NY.
The government under pressure from political activists shut down any hope of fracking even though it works fine elsewhere and has kept parts of Pennsylvania economically alive for years; regulations and taxes are strangling businesses; and almost every day...
Retailers including Wal-Mart, Amazon, and Sears have reached a $300K compromise with New York regulators who say that the outlets’ sales of toy guns violate state law.
Federal law requires that toy guns display an orange strip to indicate non functionality, but New York law goes further by banning the sale...
New York State municipalities are suffocating under the weight of local pensions.
The solution? Defer and delay, rather than deal with the problem now.
From The Ithaca Journal, Borrowing for pension costs soar in N.Y.:
Local governments and the state increased borrowing off the state pension fund to pay yearly retirement costs by 22...
