Letters to the Editor — Jan. 24, 2025
The Issue: Gov. Hochul unveiling a $252 billion state budget for 2025 earlier this week. Perhaps Gov. Hochul hasn’t noticed, ...
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Tag: state budget
Illegal pot shop, retail theft crackdowns locked-in as lawmakers begin voting on state budget Thursday
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s push to crackdown on spiraling retail crime was a focus Thursday as her state budget deal with ...
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Soft-on-crime NY Speaker Heastie finally caves on increased penalties for assaulting retail workers
New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) said he was on board with stiffening penalties for assaults on retail workers, ...
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Pass a state budget that addresses New York’s most urgent issues
Wouldn’t it be nice if the next state budget focused on handling New York’s worst problems? Things like the migrant ...
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New York lawmakers’ spending spree will bankrupt the state
State lawmakers must be smoking some of that wacky tobacky they legalized, because the one-house budget bills they passed this ...
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How migrant crisis will sink Biden
Not since 1975 — when a famous tabloid headline read, “Ford to New York: Drop Dead” — have New York ...
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Governor Hochul’s NY budget isn’t terrible but lawmakers will want to make it so
Gov. Hochul just rolled out a characteristically careful budget that points toward fiscal sanity. Let’s hope she sticks to her ...
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Hochul’s ‘State of the State’ holds a glimmer of hope that the gov gets it: 1 ½ stars
Gov. Hochul’s 2024 State of the State Address was an improvement over her past performances — but this “franchise” has ...
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