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Actress Cynthia Nixon blasted Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a bully and a "wannabe Republican" Monday during her first visit to Albany since announcing her bid for New York governor. The "Sex and the City" star and public education advocate criticized the two-term governor for not doing enough to ensure equal opportunities for poor and minority students.
Cynthia Nixon is blasting Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a "bully" and "wannabe Republican" during her first campaign event in Albany since announcing her candidacy for New York governor. . FILE - In this Tuesday, April 4, 2017, file photo, the Supreme Court in Washington.
Richmond County District Attorney Michael E. McMahon is among a contingent of city prosecutors pushing for a bill that would allow judges to take firearms away from people who could potentially harm themselves or others. bill as part of the 2018-19 budget.
Bronx: While I support women running for office and voted for Hillary Clinton, I don't support Cynthia Nixon's challenge to our governor, Andrew Cuomo. At a time when we have an inexperienced, corrupt reality star in the White House who is systematically tearing down the very fabric of society, we need to have experienced state and local elected officials like Cuomo as a check against this incompetent now inhabiting the White House.
Actress and activist Cynthia Nixon is running for governor of New York, challenging Democract Governor Andrew Cuomo, from the left in this year's Democratic primary. "Something has to change," Nixon says in the campaign's launch video.
On Tuesday New Jersey's new Democratic governor, Phil Murphy, broke sharply with President Trump and Congress on taxes. He used his first budget address to propose a hefty tax hike on millionaires.
Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo accused of bribery, leaves Federal court in New York, Monday, March 12, 2018. Jurors have finished another day of deliberations after a second deadlock.
As state budget negotiations intensified in Albany ahead of an April 1 deadline, an influential Brooklyn state senator said he is in favor, at least in principle, of a proposal to institute a congestion pricing plan to get vehicles off clogged Midtown Manhattan streets and another idea that would double the number of speed cameras outside of New York City schools. But state Sen. Marty Golden , the only Republican state senator representing a Brooklyn district, said his support is contingent on getting certain provisions into both bills.
On Monday the US Supreme Court will hear Janus v. AFSCME. At issue are the constitutionality of laws in 22 states - including New York - that force public employees who do not want to belong to unions to pay unions "agency fees" for bargaining collectively on their behalf.
An idea that had been discussed for at least a year to limit the flow of weapons has accelerated in the wake of Parkland, Fla. shooting Gov. Phil Murphy speaks during a roundtable on gun violence prevention strategies at the Betty and Milton Katz Jewish Community Center in Cherry Hill on Feb. 13, 2018.
State GOP Chairman Ed Cox is calling on Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. to investigate Gov. Cuomo and his office. Cox, in a letter to be delivered Monday to Vance's office, says testimony coming out of the trial of former Cuomo aide and confidante Joseph Percoco raises questions about "what role other executive chamber employees, including the governor, played in Mr. Percoco's unlawful acts and whether they knowingly aided and abetted or acquiesced to such unlawful acts."
The following is an expanded version of the third item from my "Albany Insider" column that was cut for space from Monday's print editions: The embarrassment of seeing their star witness in the trial against former long-time Gov. Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco put behind bars for violating his cooperation deal with prosecutors could be another black eye for former crusading Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's legacy, legal and political sources say. Prosecutors had made it clear Howe's background was one of frequent lies and crimes.
Gov. Cuomo with Gov. Rossello of Puerto Rico at rally supporting hurricane relief on Saturday. Photo: Office of Gov. Como The bribery trial of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, begins its third week in federal court Monday.
If President Donald Trump needs help in picking projects for his $1.5 trillion infrastructure program, he needs only to look to his home state of New York, where the list of mega projects needing billions of dollars has been piling up for years. It's unclear however just how much - if any - new money New York can expect for its two most pressing transportation needs.
Republican Chele Farley, who most recently served as New York City finance chair of the state party, on Thursday launched a run against U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who is up for re-election to a second full term this fall. Farley, a partner at the equity firm Mistral Capital, launched her effort with a video that borrowed an argument recently deployed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo : New York State pays roughly more in federal taxes than it gets back in federal aid - money, Farley said, that could be used to rebuild state infrastructure and boost education, among other things.
Bill McKibben - journalist, gadfly, Bernie Sanders supporter, and briefly an inmate of Washington, D.C.'s Central Cell Block - is one of America's foremost environmental activists. As the founder of an organization known as " 350.org ," he leads a global network of climate change zealots who believe that persecuting energy companies involved in the production of fossil fuels is necessary to achieve "climate justice."
New Jersey and Connecticut are joining New York in planning to sue Washington over the Republican-led federal tax overhaul, the Democratic governors of the three states announced Friday. Andrew Cuomo of New York, Dannel Malloy of Connecticut and Phil Murphy of New Jersey announced Friday that they're talking to leaders of other states that stand to be hurt by the federal tax plan that's expected to cost taxpayers in their states billions of dollars.
New York will continue to provide Medicaid benefits to people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children - no matter what officials in Washington do with the program that protected them from deportation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this week. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created by former Democratic President Barack Obama protected certain immigrants who entered the country as children from deportation.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo previously said he wanted to launch a "repeal and replace" campaign against the just-passed federal tax overhaul which he says will harm high-tax Blue state like New York and California. Still unclear is how much they will spend and if this may be borrowed or replicated in other states, particularly battleground Purple states or even congressional districts where there could be competitive Congressional elections in November.