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ALBANY — Standard political catechism advises most politicians to avoid going on the record in support of a new tax. But that's not the case with one upstate lawmaker. Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, D-Ulster, has begun the push for a statewide carbon tax, a measure that is intended to address...

Doctors would be required to report drivers who have “an impairing ailment’’ to the state DMV, and the agency could then suspend his or her license, according to proposed legislation detailed Friday. State Assemblyman Robert Carroll and state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, speaking at the scene of...

The de Blasio Administration is illegally shipping homeless families off to unsuspecting, upstate towns with a year of free rent — forcing those municipalities to pick up the rest of their living expenses, Broome County officials said Thursday. At least five families have been sent to Broome in...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says Russian hackers might interfere in his re-election this year. “I don’t think the Russians said we’re only going to interfere in federal elections,” Cuomo told reporters Thursday. “I think part of the goal is just to wreak havoc.” He discussed the potential for hacking...

Elected officials in New York have been trying desperately to figure out how to soften the impact of federal tax reform on millions of state residents. Ideas like a switch to a payroll tax, letting people treat their state and local payments as charitable contributions, and making technical...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Call it the Amazon and Ebay tax. To help close a $4.4 billion budget gap, Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed an "internet fairness conformity tax" in his executive budget that would require online marketplaces to collect sales tax from third-party sales to New York residents...

Gov. Cuomo keeps blocking natural-gas pipelines in New York, supposedly because they might taint rivers and streams. But a new report flags the real reason: The mere use of natural gas is too much for enviro-radicals. The study, by Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy for the...

Armed teachers would be banned from New York schools under new legislation to be introduced in Albany on Monday. President Trump proposed arming qualified teachers and other staffers to shoot back if a gunman attacks their school after last month’s mass shooting left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman...

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand were among those rushing to fill the political void created on Capitol Hill after President Donald Trump told Democrats he agreed with much of their gun-control agenda. At a news conference, Schumer laid out a three-point...

President Trump on Wednesday voiced support for confiscating guns from certain individuals deemed to be dangerous, even if it violates due process rights. “I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida ... to go to court would have taken a long...

Democrats in the state Senate, fed up with gun-control bills going nowhere in the GOP-controlled chamber, are secretly planning to force their Republican colleagues into voting on the issue today — by introducing the stalled proposals as hostile amendments In the wake of the Florida school...

A man armed with an AR-15 rifle stopped an attack by one of his neighbors and held him until police arrived. It happened Monday at an apartment building on Harbor Drive in Oswego Township. Police say it all began when someone with a knife attacked another person during an argument. Neighbor...

The good guy with the gun got shot. Another mass shooting set within sacred confines nearly could've taken place on the same day as the massacre in Parkland, Fla., were it not for one man joining with a group of congregants to take down the gunman. Unfortunately for Tony Garces, he still got...

Democrats mulling how to approach gun control on the campaign trail this year are weighing their tough history on the subject against the burning politics of the moment. The killings of 17 people at a Florida high school has led to an outpouring of student protests and new energy for the gun...

The governors of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island are forming a coalition of like-minded states on gun control, hoping to make progress where they see the federal government has faltered. The four Democrats announced the formation of "States for Gun Safety" on Thursday, about...

New York Senate Republicans face new pressure to back a bill that would let judges confiscate weapons from dangerous individuals after several Democrats who share power with the GOP signed on as co-sponsors. The so-called “red flag” law would let guns be seized from people deemed dangerous by...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer signaled Democrats will renew a fight to expand background checks for gun purchasers following last week’s mass shooting that killed 17 people at a Florida high school. "Our No. 1 priority is going to be universal background checks," Schumer of New York...

Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. insinuated Wednesday that student survivors of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting were being manipulated by Democratic billionaire George Soros to organize for gun control. In a tweet, the former Wisconsin sheriff wrote that media appearances...

As many as 250 workers could lose their jobs at Dresser-Rand Corp.'s plant in Wellsville within two years, after its German parent company agreed to sell one business to Curtiss-Wright Corp. and shift its remaining functions there to North Carolina. The loss of the plant is a major blow to the...

A war was lost before it ever could begin, according to local historians who were hoping to fire up a mock battle. The Elk Grove Historical Society planned a Revolutionary War reenactment for more than a year and has had similar events in the past, but it’s now forced to cancel the event...

He has some valid points. LONSBERRY: GOP And DEMS Both Wrong About Shootings | Bob Lonsberry | NewsRadio WHAM 1180

Republicans Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Rep. Carlos Curbelo, and Sen. James Lankford all voiced their support for gun legislation on the Sunday morning talk show circuit. Even conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh came out in favor of some gun regulation. Ohio Gov. John Kasich came out swinging on...

New York state ranked highest in government debt for residents in 2015, the latest data available. The debt per person was $17,528 in New York state, according to the Empire Center. The center is a non-partisan, non-profit think tank based in Albany that calls for policy reforms based on...

More people are carrying guns than ever before, but the crime rate remains relatively low. WCCO’s Pat Kessler is looking at the numbers, and giving them a Reality Check. We took a hard look at the numbers, and found: Minnesota has a high rate of gun ownership, and a relatively low rate of...

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Good read. Media ignoring 1 crucial factor in Florida school shooting Here we go again. A horrific mass shooting occurs. Everyone is in shock and grief. Democrats blame guns and Republicans. Pundits urge the public, “If you see something, say something.” And everyone asks, “Why?” As...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's favorability rating, after reaching its highest point of his second term in early January, took a considerable dip this month. According to the latest poll conducted by the Siena College Research Institute and released early Monday, Cuomo's favorability rating fell from 62...

Worried about federal immigration policies, a New York labor organization is taking steps to protect its own. Across Long Island and throughout the city, some 120,000 Teamsters are getting prepped to become a “sanctuary union.” In 27 shops, business agents, supervisors and front-line workers...

The company that bills itself as the largest sauerkraut manufacturer in the world will close its factory in Shortsville, New York. GLK Foods, which processes a total of 130,000 tons of cabbage a year, announced that is consolidating its sauerkraut production to its plant in Bear Creek...

Calling gun violence a “national epidemic,” state Senate Democrats Tuesday unveiled a package of gun control bills. The nine-bill package would ban bump stock devices that increase rate of fire like the one used in the Las Vegas mass shooting. It would also establish extreme risk orders of...

New Yorkers can be forgiven for thinking Gov. Cuomo and his fellow progressives want them to leave the state. After all, DC’s tax reforms will make New York’s nation-high tax burden sting all the more. But Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio and assorted pro-union and progressive groups are pushing to raise...

The Republican leader of the New York Senate joked Monday that he’s willing to take flak to get Gov. Andrew Cuomo a new government plane because the current one is way past its prime and he’s got to fly on it. Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, during an unrelated press conference at the...

Gov. Cuomo wants to give another break to immigrant Dreamers by extending free public college tuition to students who were brought into to the United States illegally as kids. Cuomo tucked a provision in his $168 billion budget plan that would amend state education law to make the undocumented...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that New York State would use its share of Medicaid money to insure DACA recipients if the federal government terminates the program. The Deferred Action Childhood Arrival program granted legal status to some 42,000 New York residents, allowing them to...

N.Y. gun violence costs state economy $5.6B a year: study Gun violence in New York not only carries a social cost, but a hefty economic one as well, a new analysis shows. Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a group founded by former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, looked at gun...

California will take the next step in blurring the lines between citizens and non-citizens beginning April Fool’s Day when the state complies with a court order to begin automatically registering to vote all those who are granted driver’s licenses. The state has long provided driver’s licenses...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra warned employers Thursday of legal repercussions if they assist federal immigration officials in an impending crackdown in the sanctuary state, The Sacramento Bee reported. Under a new state law – the Immigration Worker Protection Act – employers and...

New York Republican State Committee Chairman Edward F. Cox claimed the unemployment rate is rising in upstate counties, something Republicans intend to remind voters about in the 2018 race for governor. "Of all the 62 counties in New York state, all of them, unemployment is going up except for...

Governor Cuomo’s budget proposal includes more than $1.5 billion in automatic state personal income tax hikes, affecting many of the same people who have the most to lose from the new federal limits on state and local tax (SALT) deductions. As first noted here yesterday, the 2018-19 Executive...

Facing a multibillion-dollar gap in state finances, Governor Cuomo has turned to one of Albany’s favorite piggy banks: the health care industry. Out of $1 billion in “revenue actions” proposed by Cuomo on Tuesday, $750 million would be extracted from health insurers and drug manufacturers and...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's bid to avoid a retrial on corruption charges after his 2015 conviction was thrown out by a lower court. Silver, a Democrat, had appealed a July 2017 lower court ruling that set aside his conviction...

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen confirmed Tuesday that her department has asked federal prosecutors to see if they can lodge criminal charges against sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with federal deportation efforts. “The Department of Justice is reviewing what avenues may...

Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country? Not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia, but California, where nearly one out of five residents is poor. That’s according to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, which factors in the cost of housing, food...

State and county law enforcement say they do not plan to pursue criminal charges against pistol permit holders who fail to recertify their permits by Jan. 31. In recent months, state and county officials have raised concern that failing to extend the recertification deadline would turn...

In Edward Garrett's eyes, the time, energy and money it took for him to get a pistol permit, were reasons enough to challenge the state law. The former chairman of the Erie County Libertarian Party got his answer this week: the 106-year old law stands. A federal judge dismissed the...

You know New York’s future is grim when even Republicans refuse to push for meaningful relief for overwhelmed state taxpayers, even as federal reforms ratchet up the state’s tax bite. On Tuesday, Senate Republicans — New York’s main hope for reining in tax-and-spend progressives — rolled out...

A New York state assemblywoman from Brooklyn who claims to be an advocate for Sandy victims has been accused of bilking FEMA and New York City's's Build it Back fund out of thousands of dollars following the monster 2012 storm. Rep. Pamela Harris, a former New York City correction officer, was...

Erie County Clerk Michael Kearns is urging Albany to push back a deadline to renew tens of thousands of gun permits, as required by New York State's SAFE Act. Under the SAFE Act, permits five years and older must be renewed by January 31, 2018. Kearns is among those concerned that thousands...

Redneck Revolt is a national activist organisation that advocates for the downfall of capitalism through the elimination of racism. Its founders believe strongly that working-class liberation can only occur when workers unite, regardless of race. So in 38 different locations around the country...