A leader of protests against new coronavirus restrictions in Brooklyn has been arrested on charges of inciting people to riot and unlawful imprisonment of a journalist who was chased and trapped by a crowd, police said. Heshy Tischler, a City Council…
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Cuomo, de Blasio say pot sales will help fix the subway
The subways are going to pot — and that may be a good thing. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday announced that revenue from legal marijuana sales in New York state would help fuel repairs to…
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Andrew Cuomo’s avalanche of platitudes
Andrew Cuomo stood baying at the moon in Albany Tuesday, and it was only two o’clock in the afternoon. New York’s leather-lunged governor folded his annual budget message into his State of the State Address, belting it out to the…
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No one is targeting the real corruption plaguing New York
Federal Judge Valerie Caproni sentenced former state economic-development czar Alain Kaloyeros to 3-and-a-half years in prison Tuesday, ending one major chapter in the Cuomo corruption scandals. We wish we could be sure it’s the final chapter. Already sentenced: Developers Louis Ciminelli…
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