Jewish community centers, schools and cemeteries have been dealing with waves of bomb threats and vandalism this year. Most of these crimes remain unsolved, though a man in St. Louis was charged Friday with eight of the threats made against Jewish institutions as well as a bomb threat to New York’s Anti-Defamation League.
Category: Andrew Cuomo
A.M. Roundup: Medical marijuana program set to grow
Good morning! Yesterday’s temps broke records , and proved me useless as a daffodil whisperer: My bulbs sent up shoots despite my words of warning. In another sign of spring, the Yankees play their first spring training game today , and so do the Mets .
New York attorney general bids to become Trump’s No. 1 enemy
Schneiderman is fighting to emerge as a major player in the liberal resist… . FILE – In this Feb. 17, 2017, file photo, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman speaks to colleagues at his office in New York.
Pro-Republican PAC gears up to oppose Cuomo 2020
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers one of his State of the State addresses in New York’s One World Trade Center building, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. New York state must stand as an alternative to the policies and pronouncements of President-elect Donald Trump and show the nation progressive achievements, racial and religious tolerance and that big investments in education and infrastructure can create a dynamic economy that works for all, Cuomo said Monday.
GOP lawmakers around the U.S. push for restrictions on voting
As President Donald Trump hurls unfounded allegations of colossal fraud in last fall’s election, lawmakers in at least 20 mostly Republican-led states are pushing to make it harder to register or to vote.
Senate leader: New Yorkers would have access to abortion after Roe
Our goal for the week was to find 100 people who’ve never given a single dollar to NCPR. We found: Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to pass an amendment enshrining the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 abortion decision Roe v.
Will Liberals Learn to Love the 10th Amendment?
In the 1997 case Printz v. United States , the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional for the federal government to direct state and local law enforcement officers to enforce certain provisions of the 1993 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.
Battles with Andrew Cuomo are widespread in Albany
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Poll: Voters show support for most of Cuomoa s 2017 agenda
A majority of voters statewide are on board with a number of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s policy proposals for 2017, including an extension of the so-called millionaires’ tax and state funding to cover the cost of tuition at public colleges, a new poll shows. Gov. Andrew Cuomo waits to speak at a presentation where the state will announce how it is dividing $1.5 billion in economic development funds.
Protests against Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ continue
JANUARY 28: Protesters gather to denounce President Donald Trump’s executive order that bans certain immigration, at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on January 28, 2017 in Dallas, Texas. President Trump signed the controversial executive order that halted refugees and residents from predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.
More protests against Trump’s immigration policies planned
More angry protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies are set for Sunday across the country after hundreds of demonstrators converged on airports the day before.. This is the second weekend of demonstrations, with more than 1 million people coming out last weekend for the Women’s March.
Federal judge bars deporting travelers with valid visas
A federal court in Brooklyn tonight granted an emergency stay on President Trump’s executive order that bans immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries for two Iraqi men who had valid visas to enter the United States but were detained today when they arrived in New York. Trump’s order calls for an immediate suspension of immigration from countries with ties to terror, including Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran and Libya, for a time period of 90 days.
Is Cuomo going to abandon New York taxpayers? :0
Halfway through his second term as New York’s chief executive, Gov. Cuomo could be approaching a fiscal turning point. Cuomo’s six-year budget record has mixed tax cuts and tax hikes, shrewd economizing and outright waste, sound financial practices and objectionable gimmicks.
Trump Adviser Kellyanne Conway Says Obamacare – Penalty’ Will End
Kellyanne Conway, a key adviser to President Donald Trump, said the new administration plans to end the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that most people have health insurance, a step that could destabilize the law’s markets. Conway, in an interview airing Sunday on NBC News’ “Sunday Today With Willie Geist,” appeared to indicate that the law’s requirement that most employers offer coverage to their full-time workers would also end.
New York Voting Process ‘Very Close to Failing,’ Advocate Says
Common Cause New York said the state lags far behind others in areas like early voting, allocating polling place resources and using electronic poll books. The organization led the federal suit against voter suppression in the city.
Return of the poor man’s Harvard
Karl Grossman is a professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury who has specialized in investigative reporting for 45 years. He is the host of the TV program “Enviro Close-Up,” the writer and presenter of numerous TV documentaries and the author of six books.
This Week From Albany: Cuomo’s road show
This week in state government news, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo breaks with tradition and takes his state of the state address on the road and lawmakers return to Albany for the second week of the 2017 session. Instead of a single address to lawmakers, Cuomo will deliver six speeches in different locations throughout the state this week, beginning Monday in New York City and Buffalo.
Leery States Examine Cybersecurity
Several states around the country on Saturday are asking cybersecurity experts to re-examine state and utility networks after a Vermont utility’s laptop was found to contain malware that U.S. officials say is linked to Russian hackers. The Burlington Electric Department, one of Vermont’s two largest electric utilities, confirmed Friday it had found on one of its laptops the malware code used in Grizzly Steppe — the name the U.S. government has given to malicious cyber activity by Russian civilian and military intelligence services.
Leery States Examine Cybersecurity
Several states around the country on Saturday are asking cybersecurity experts to re-examine state and utility networks after a Vermont utility’s laptop was found to contain malware that U.S. officials say is linked to Russian hackers. The Burlington Electric Department, one of Vermont’s two largest electric utilities, confirmed Friday it had found on one of its laptops the malware code used in Grizzly Steppe — the name the U.S. government has given to malicious cyber activity by Russian civilian and military intelligence services.
US states re-examine cybersecurity
Several states around the country on Saturday asked cybersecurity experts to re-examine state and utility networks after a Vermont utility’s laptop was found to contain malware U.S. officials say is linked to Russian hackers. The Burlington Electric Department, one of Vermont’s two largest electric utilities, confirmed Friday it had found on one of its laptops the malware code used in Grizzly Steppe, the name the U.S. government has given to malicious cyber activity by Russian civilian and military intelligence services.
Trump confidant says Michelle Obama belongs with African gorillas, wishes death upon the president
Carl Paladino, a former co-chair of Donald Trump’s campaign and the man New York Republicans elected as their gubernatorial nominee in 2010, told a local newspaper in Buffalo that he hopes President Obama catches mad cow disease and dies, and that Michelle Obama is a man and should be “let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.” The remarks came as answers to a questionnaire by Buffalo alt-weekly ArtVoice , which sent a harmless 4-question survey to local officials and city residents .
New York members of Electoral College vote for Clinton
New York’s 29 members of the Electoral College have cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton, who won the state despite losing the presidential race to Republican Donald Trump. Among the electors gathered Monday in the state Capitol’s Senate chambers was former President Bill Clinton, who says he’s never been prouder of any vote.