The Great Nail Reckoning continues: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is reportedly set to announce Monday that nail salons who illegally denied their workers overtime or paid them less than the minimum wage have been ordered to pay out a total of $2 million.
New York City will be getting a minimum wage of $15, and the state will have paid family leave by the end of 2018 with a new budget agreement. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the approximately $150-billion budget on Thursday.
Last week, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed into law a draconian bill that repealed every local LGBT anti-discrimination law and requires people to use the bathroom that corresponds with the biological gender written on their birth certificate. Obviously, this has prompted massive backlash.
Yesterday, New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced a series of regulations that would essentially eliminate so-called conversion therapy, a practice that claims to change the sexual orientation of LGTBQ people. Though conversion therapy continues to be used by a handful of religious groups, the practice has been…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law Tuesday that bans correctional facilities from shackling or handcuffing pregnant people. A ban on shackling incarcerated women in labor was passed in 2009; the new law will make it illegal to shackle women at any point while pregnant, in labor, in transport to the…
Last summer, a Queens assemblyman helped prepare a bill to fight the terrible working conditions in New York City’s nail salons, then he suddenly changed his mind. What happened? Money, is one guess. Seems like money happened.
There’s a scourge of topless women plaguing Time Square. The formerly very-un-family-friendly and then very-family-friendly area of New York where tourists flock to see billboards and eat at The Olive Garden has been overrun with with bare-chested painted ladies, and neither NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio or Governor Andrew…
New York state is proposing new legislation that would require college transcripts to note when a student has been found responsible for sexual assault. The measure, which is currently only required in Virginia, would help put a stop to students being able to transfer schools without the new institution knowing about…
In an interview that aired on Good Morning America Tuesday, 48-year-old Sandra Lee revealed that she found out she has breast cancer during a routine mammogram, and will be getting a double mastectomy. “Girls have to know,” Lee said, encouraging women to get checked. “Girls in their 20s and their 30s just have to…
Sandra Lee, America’s patron saint of not going the extra mile, has been appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America quite a bit lately, and Page Six reports that it’s no accident. The former host of Food Network’s Semi-Homemade Meals and current purveyor of a line of margaritas called Cocktail Time is “about to launch a…
Sandra Lee, girlfriend of Andrew Cuomo and purveyor of recipes for edible garbage, was walking along a beach in Malibu, CA earlier this week when she stumbled across a dying baby seal, reports Page Six. Fortunately for the seal, Lee made a few calls and was able to get “a wildlife rescue team to pick up the pup.”…
For nearly two years, New York state has been trying and failing to pass the Women's Equality Act (WEA), a ten-point bill designed to strengthen women's rights in the state. The sticking point has been the tenth provision, which would safeguard late-term abortion rights. After lots of fighting, supporters of the…
The governor of New York is pushing to have "racy" ads for breast enhancements removed from the city's subway system.
Oh, no! Conservative talk show host Sean Hannity doesn't feel welcome in his home state after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo stated that those who are "right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay" no longer are welcome here and now Hannity is threatening to move to Florida or Texas! What will the people of New York…
You may recall the recent Kardashian Khroma Kurfuffle in which the Klan decided to name their makeup line a name that was already taken by another makeup line. This ended in the family actually losing a court case and having to name their line something boring and normal like Kardashian Beauty. Now they're being…
New York governor Andrew Cuomo paid his ladyfriend's stylist to make him look good for TV. Well, of course — we don't want our politicians looking all shiny on camera.
We know the basics on Sandra Lee: the hardscrabble story; the "Evangelist's fervor" with which she pursued success; her relationship with new York's governor; her deep commitment to the state's food banks. At this point, even shots at her Semi-Homemade empire feel cheap and stale. And yet, a new profile — perhaps the…
Best part of the interview? "'I like to create what I call ‘tablescapes,' " she explains. 'It's so much more fun when you organize your table around a theme, don't you think?'" O, RLY? (And, yes, then she creates an ominous-sounding "Founding Fathers" tablescape.)
Beat this for a lede: "Newly minted Gov. Cuomo spent the night in his parents' old bedroom with First Girlfriend Sandra Lee and the power couple's newest "baby" — a 2-month-old cockatoo." Oh yes, the era of Lee has begun!
