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Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to make several changes to his signature Start-Up NY economic development program and rename it the Excelsior Business Program. The proposal was included in his fiscal 2018 budget released late Tuesday. The changes simplify the current Start-Up NY program's eligibility...

A San Francisco company has posted ads in more than 20 cities nationwide seeking protesters to demonstrate at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, offering to pay up to $2,500, The Washington Times reported. "Get paid fighting against Trump!" bellowed the ad listed on the website...

State Republican Chairman Ed Cox’s quick dismissal of talk that state Senate GOP Majority Leader John Flanagan might run for governor in 2018 left some in his party “stunned” and “frustrated.” Cox on Thursday when asked about Flanagan said he hadn’t heard such talk and doubted it was true . He...

In Northern Italy. This combination drum and bugle corp, musket drill team puts on half time shows at both soccer and football (American style) stadiums in Northern Italy. Lots of musket firing and pyrotechnics.

It was a family passion for the Yatskos, one that is popular in their home state of Ohio. Domonique Yatsko, 9, went on an organized youth hunt last year and harvested her first deer – an eight-point buck. To mark the milestone, her family had the image of a beaming Domoninque with her trophy...

The habit hooked the state government 20 years ago this month, when the Health Care Reform Act took effect. The main purpose of that law was to do a good thing: end state-imposed price controls on hospitals, giving free-market competition a chance to tame spiraling health-care costs. To smooth...

If you’re a recent college graduate living upstate and you have yet to buy a home, you’re hardly alone. Millennials nationwide have delayed purchasing a first home, and this is something Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to combat. On Friday, the governor proposed a $5 million Graduate to Homeownership...

The animal lovers of New York society are in an uproar over the hot-and-heavy romance between Michael Bloomberg’s daughter, Georgina, and a trophy-game hunter. Georgina Bloomberg and Carlos Arruza Jr.Patrick McMullan In November, animal-rights organization the Humane Society gave the Bloomberg...

Already at war with Gov. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan has been telling people he is considering a 2018 run for governor, sources said Wednesday. Flanagan, a Suffolk County Republican, has been battling with Cuomo for weeks over a legislative pay raise and other issues. Flanagan...

Even as he warns the upcoming state budget will be tight, Gov. Cuomo is sitting on $1.4 billion in unallocated funds that lawmakers say could be used to help boost funding for their different priorities. Of the $9.4 billion in money the state has received since 2014 from legal settlements with...

Another reason to close the border. While guiding an aoudad hunt in Presidio county Texas, a New Mexico hunting guide was shot in the abdomen and seriously wounded Friday night after what appears to have been an attempt to kidnap his clients on the Mexico border. The guide remains in critical...

For the second time since the law was passed in 2014, the Saratoga County sheriff and clerk are taking a stand against New York's controversial SAFE Act. Matt Hunter reports. BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. – Less than a week after the New York State Police announced pistol permit holders could begin the...

The top Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer of New York, is promising to block one of President-elect Donald Trump’s first big initiatives — naming a ninth member to the Supreme Court. “It’s hard for me to imagine a nominee that Donald Trump would choose that would get Republican support that...

Barely two months after Hillary Clinton lost the presidency to Donald Trump, she is being urged by major Democratic donors and leaders to make a bid for New York City's mayor and challenge incumbent Bill de Blasio, Newsmax has learned. "She's talking about it," a former city Democratic elected...

Get ready for more gun control. A group of breakaway state Senate Democrats has decided to continue in a bipartisan coalition with the chamber’s Republican majority. Despite pressure from the left to strike a deal with the mainline Dems, Senate Independent Democratic Conference leader Jeffrey...

From the man that proudly gave us the unSAFE Act. Bronx state Sen. Jeffrey Klein’s influential group of breakaway Democrats will push for a major overhaul of New York’s Tuition Assistance Program that includes granting access to undocumented immigrants, the Daily News has learned. As part of a...

This makes me very nervous to say the least. Donald Trump told Democrat Sen. Charles Schumer in a phone call he likes him more than his GOP brethren House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a source close to the transition team said. During a recent phone call, the...

I hope he doesn't run for Governor. When U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna walks away from Congress next week after six years in office, the Upstate New York Republican will leave behind a GOP that he says has become too intolerant and extreme, drowning out moderates like himself. Hanna, 65, a fiercely...

Hillary Clinton intends to keep her campaign organization together for the next four years and run again for president in 2020. “She’s convinced that, sooner than later, the voters will come to their senses and realize they made a horrible mistake by putting [Donald] Trump in the White House,”...

he chairman of the Westchester County Board of Legislators vowed there will be a showdown on Jan. 9 over whether a gun and knife show can take place at the County Center in White Plains, as reported here earlier by Daily Voice. "I support the Second Amendment, but it doesn't have to be at the...

New Yorkers have a mixed assessment of whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo should run for president in 2020, a Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday found. Voters by a 50 percent to 43 percent margin believe Cuomo should be a national leader in challenging incoming President Donald Trump’s...

Richard Hanna may be retiring from Congress in a couple of weeks but he is giving some thought to seeking another job closer to home. The Oneida County Republican has been a member of the House of Representatives for six years. He did not run for reelection this year. Hanna previously has said...

Hours after Sen. Chuck Schumer delivered a hopeful speech to anxious Democrats gathered at the Javits Center on Election Night, the dealmaker was already recalibrating to his new, less powerful reality. Schumer was not displaying any signs of shock, like many of the Democrats around him, who...

Niagara Falls loves FUAC as much as e do. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, through his associates at State Parks and the New York Power Authority, sometime over the past week perpetrated an act of such petty vindictiveness and blatant contempt for Niagara Falls that we thought it appropriate to come up with...

Looks like it's a Cuomo family trait. The hosts of Morning Joe have lashed out at CNN anchor Chris Cuomo in a new interview. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were asked about Cuomo's very public criticism of their relationship with Donald Trump in an interview with Vanity Fair, and...

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a California law requiring a 10-day waiting period for gun purchases. Judge Mary M. Schroeder, an appointee of President Jimmy Carter, wrote the opinion of the three-person panel that reversed a federal trial court that found the 10-day "cooling off"...

For the second installment of the “You Defend It Debate Series,” representatives from the largest organizations in New York advocating for and against stricter gun laws squared off in Old University Union. The event, held Tuesday, was hosted by the Binghamton University Speech and Debate Team...

In New York, there’s no such thing as a “temporary tax,” and Gov. Andrew Cuomo may be about to prove that rule yet again by pushing to renew levies on wealthy taxpayers. That would not only deal the state’s economy another blow, it would also go against Cuomo’s own past statements about how...

The Tax Returns Uniformly Made Public Act would require presidential and vice presidential candidates to disclose five years of federal income tax returns in order to appear on the ballot in New York State. Sen. Brad Hoylman, D-Manhattan, has drafted legislation that would require presidential...

The state’s Attorney General has released a package of bills aimed at improving what he says is the state’s “arcane” and “ridiculous” voting laws that bar many potential voters from the ballot box. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman began a statewide inquiry after his office received a record...

Why did Hillary Clinton join Jill Stein, the Green Party’s oddball presidential nominee, in asking for a recount of the votes in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania when everyone knows that such a recount won’t change the outcome of the 2016 election? Part of the answer is that people close to...

Governor Cuomo is pressuring state lawmakers to come back in December for a special session that includes a number of reform items to address recent corruption scandals. He says in exchange, they could potentially be rewarded with a pay raise. Governor Cuomo is trying to convince state...

President Barack Obama blamed Democrats' difficulty connecting with voters in the election partially on the prevalence of Fox News, in an interview with Rolling Stone. "In this election, [white working class voters] turned out in huge numbers for Trump," Obama said, answering Jann Wenner about...

With a Republican majority in Congress and Donald Trump soon to be in the White House, the National Rifle Association has big plans to push an aggressive gun-friendly agenda, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to the Journal, the NRA has four big targets and initiatives...

The readers of The New York Times are speaking out against the newspaper's election coverage and complaining to their offices at "five times the normal level." "The number of complaints coming into the public editor's office is five times the normal level, and the pace has only just recently...

In one last effort to deny Donald Trump the presidency, half a dozen Democratic electors in the Electoral College have signed onto an agreement to attempt to block Trump from getting into the White House. These electors are trying to convince their Republican counterparts to also break with...

Sounds like another way to rig the election. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday signed legislation that secures New York’s place on the list of states that have joined National Popular Vote compact. By signing this legislation, the governor seeks to guarantee that every vote in every state will...

Sounds like another way to rig the election. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday signed legislation that secures New York’s place on the list of states that have joined National Popular Vote compact. By signing this legislation, the governor seeks to guarantee that every vote in every state will...

In the waning days of the presidential campaign, Bill and Hillary Clinton had a knock-down, drag-out fight about her effort to blame FBI Director James Comey for her slump in the polls and looming danger of defeat. "I was with Bill in Little Rock when he had this shouting match with Hillary on...

A mom in Texas made a stunning find when she discovered an accused sex offender hiding under the stairs of her house -- and after a fight, her son shot the man in the face, an arrest warrant revealed Tuesday. The family's barking dog first alerted the mother to the suspect, 56-year-old Leonard...

An awful lot of red.

From Reuters & AOL both are anti gun so take it for what it's worth. Gun control-related ballot measures in four states are expected to pass on Tuesday, opinion polls show, after gun safety advocates poured a massive amount of money into backing the initiatives. In Maine and Nevada...

Now the Dems are trying to blame the FBI saying that they are pro Trump. A recent flurry of leaks by FBI sources to the media about ongoing investigations related to Hillary Clinton has raised questions about whether bureau personnel are trying to meddle in the presidential race less than one...

I'll believe it when I see it but for what its worth. Both Fox News and the Wall Street Journal are reporting new information surrounding the FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation, with sources saying the case will likely lead to an indictment. New details surfaced Thursday, when Fox...

The FBI’s background check system for gun sales processed more than 2.3 million checks in October, setting an all-time record for the month. There were 2,333,539 gun-related checks processed through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, known as NICS, last month, according to...

Schmidt sent a detailed plan to Cheryl Mills, who had served as Clinton's chief of staff when she was secretary of state, in April 2014, a full year before the Democratic politician announced her bid for the White House. The Google titan outlined a number of things, including one Clinton...

FBI Director James Comey reopened the agency's investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails last week because "almost 100" agents threatened to resign before next week's election, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told Newsmax TV. "A few weeks ago, almost 100 agents were threatening Comey...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Donald Trump’s favorability rating is sky-high here, where citizens are paying surprisingly close attention to the U.S. election and see the developer and political novice as the clear choice for the White House. In dozens of interviews FoxNews.com conducted in various cities...

Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton asks Americans to think hard before electing Donald Trump, suggesting that his “dark and dangerous” views might split the country, leading to civil war or even nuclear war. “He has a dark and divisive vision for America that could tear our country...