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Upstate CEOs do not have a positive outlook on the business policies likely to come out of the state Capitol during the 2017 legislative session, a new poll shows. A Siena College/state Business Council poll released Friday shows that 61 percent of upstate CEOs surveyed in the final quarter of...

Democrats have decided to oppose nearly every one of President Trump’s nominees, and Betsy DeVos seems to be a particular target. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer unleashed a verbal assault on the education nominee on Thursday that might have made Harry Reid blush, and it deserves notice as a sign...

A state lawmaker got into a battle with city officials Thursday over how many undocumented immigrants charged or convicted of crimes were turned over to federal authorities last year. Assembly member Nicole Malliotakis (R-SI) said NYPD stats show the city cooperated with only two of 80...

A state lawmaker got into a battle with city officials Thursday over how many undocumented immigrants charged or convicted of crimes were turned over to federal authorities last year. Assembly member Nicole Malliotakis (R-SI) said NYPD stats show the city cooperated with only two of 80...

On Wednesday, State Senator Jose Peralta, a man who owes his seat in Queens to the very hard work of many volunteers and Democratic operatives who fought for their party to one day control the State Senate, joined the Independent Democratic Conference. He became the IDC’s eighth member...

New York is looking to legalize ride-hailing services outside New York City, but there would be surcharges placed on riders and taxes lodged against the companies. In his budget plan last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a 5.5 percent "state assessment" fee on every trip given by companies like...

A pair of state lawmakers want to snuff out the recreational use of flamethrowers. Legislation introduced by Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo, D-Broome County, and Sen. Fred Akshar, R-Broome County, would prohibit the possession, manufacture or sale of flamethrowers manufactured after 1965. Those...

President Donald Trump plans to take steps to deliver a campaign promise to tighten U.S. immigration policies Wednesday, including the building of a wall along the southern border and threatening "sanctuary cities" like Syracuse. According to the Associated Press, Trump plans to curb funding of...

The United States has fallen from the ranks of what a respected business intelligence provider considers "full democracies" and can now only be considered a "flawed democracy" -- but the reason for the demotion may be a surprise. As the country's new president, Donald Trump, sits in the White...

Ahead of the release of their full budget analysis Monday, state Senate Republicans said Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive budget proposal includes $803 million in new fees for the coming fiscal year, which would grow to $4.5 billion by 2021. That analysis is contrary to Cuomo’s claims in his...

Sen. Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday that he is prepared to leave open the ninth seat on the Supreme Court. “If the nominee is not bipartisan and mainstream, we absolutely will keep the seat open,” Schumer told CNN’s “State of the Union.” The Supreme Court vacancy has...

More pay to play from FUAC. Most of the donors who helped Gov. Andrew Cuomo raise $4.4 million over the past six months were familiar ones. Contributors like Brookfield Financial ($100,000 this filing period), Howard Milstein (who, with his family, gave $50,000) and Genting ($50,000) have all...

At 8:30 a.m., the line to enter Saturday’s gun and knife show was already wrapped around the side of the Westchester County Center. By 3 p.m., the steady-moving line was just as long. County Executive Rob Astorino said attendance numbers from the first day of the show were expected to break the...

Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino announced on Jan. 20, 2017, he has vetoed legislation passed by the county legislature that would have banned gun shows on any county property. The county legislature passed the legislation in a 9-8 vote on January 9, 2017. In his veto message...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seeking broad new authority to unilaterally hold back promised budget payments if tax money and federal aid don’t materialize as expected, an unprecedented move that has sparked concern among state and local officials. Fiscal analysts pointed to several lines sprinkled...

A little gun humor. First post. Funny pics. Viewing a thread - A little gun humor.........just received this am.

State Senate could be a model for D.C. Republicans and Independent Democrats in New York’s state Senate have successfully checked mainstream Democratic authority in Albany. Similarly, U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, Dean Heller, Lisa Murkowski, Pat Toomey, Cory Gardner and Rob Portman, along with U.S...

The amount of people moving out of New York State is almost double the number of people moving into the state. Recently we wrote about new census estimates that showed that New York was the number one state in terms of people moving out. Well, United Van Lines’ 40th Annual National Movers...

And there's more taxes & fees. Cuomo looks to enforce tax laws on out-of-state Web sales | New York Post New Yorkers are going to get nickeled-and-dimed in the new state budget, with added fees on everything from prepaid cellphones to titles for motor vehicles. The biggest hit would be a...

Gov. Cuomo kept his new budget hush-hush all Tuesday, and one reason is obvious: His call to extend the millionaires tax (again) shows his rank hypocrisy. Again. “No new taxes. Period,” Cuomo declared in 2011, nixing any extension of the “millionaires tax.”: “You are kidding yourself if you...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tonight unveiled a state budget that includes a three-year extension of the state’s film production tax credit. Launched in 2004 and extended by Cuomo in 2013, the $420 million-a-year program isn’t set to expire until 2019 but was expected to run out of money later...

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...

... And don't forget it will soon become a revenue stream for New Yorkistan. NY will use your permit money to further their cause to disarm us.

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...