New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, the frontrunner in next week’s Democratic mayoral primary, won’t say whether he supports New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s re-election bid—not because he can’t stand the guy (though he can’t, and it’s obvious), but because he’s simply refusing to talk to the media about mid-term…
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Here is how New York Governor Andrew Cuomo works: He is a coward, asserting responsibility only to defer it, every action a bureaucratic mirage of committees and task forces; manufacturing crises only to emerge as the hero once again; finding ways to make fait accompli look like the product of his own political genius…
MANHATTAN—Past a crush of tourists posing delightedly in front of Wall Street’s “Charging Bull,” a small crowd gathered around the “Fearless Girl” statue as lawmakers and childhood sexual abuse survivors called for passage of the Child Victims Act.
The office of U.S. Attorney General Preet Bharara, who was fired by Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente on Friday after refusing to resign, is currently involved in a number of active investigations and cases—an investigation into New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign fundraising, a bribery and…
We have just witnessed the incredible spectacle of a vile right-wing celebrity being elected President of the United States. There is a right lesson—and a wrong one!—for Democrats to take from this.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo continued to style himself as a leader of the democratic anti-Trump resistance (presidential aspirations beckon, no doubt), with his announcement on Saturday that he is widening reproductive rights protections for the New York women he serves. The guy definitely has his faults, but at…
Andrew Cuomo wants to be loved. He wants to run for president. He is also the embodiment of a morally bankrupt Democratic Party that has failed, at every juncture, to live up to any of the ideals it purports to hold dear. Andrew Cuomo is a snake. He should be allowed nowhere near the 2020 presidential election.
Late on Friday, Governor Andrew Cuomo released a list of 13 companies and institutions that his administration determined had supported or participated in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. Per an executive order he issued over the summer, the state of New York must end any business…
Earlier this year, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito formed an independent commission to determine whether the dilapidated and violent city jail on Rikers Island should (and could) be shut down. Now, Politico New York reports, the vultures are circling: real estate developers like Related Companies,…
Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York was first publicly asked for comment on the George Washington Bridge lane closures of September 2013 three months after the fact. “I don’t know anything more than basically what has been in the newspaper, because it was basically a New Jersey issue,” he said at the time.
On Thursday, federal prosecutors announced corruption charges against nine members of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s inner circle in connection with an alleged bribery and kickback scheme involving the much-lauded upstate New York economic development program known as the “Buffalo Billion.”
We finally tricked the government into tax-free ‘pons.
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…
