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By Steve Levy When you chop off the sexual organs or the breasts of 13-year-olds, are you engaging in “transgender care” or is it “genital mutilation”? It’s the same procedure, but the wording carries far […]

By Steve Levy Another year has come and gone, and we’ve experienced policy initiatives that both benefited the state’s residents and hurt them as well. Here is hoping that 2026 will bring us nothing but […]

By Steve Levy File this one in the column of some universities that never change their spots. Harvard University, which came under national scorn for its indifference to antisemitic attacks on its campus, is at […]

Previously Published in The Empire Report By Kathy Hochul Right in the midst of the holiday season, we learned that President Trump is once again pulling the rug out from under New York workers. Without […]

Don’t buy the propaganda from the climate extremists that Governor Kathy Hochul’s signature on a bill forcing homeowners to pay for natural gas hookups was a win for the environment. In actuality, it’s exactly the […]

By Steve Levy  One of the greatest tragedies of liberal rule in our inner cities is the indifference of left-leaning mayors and city councils to homeless encampments that sprout up in parks, sidewalks and subways. […]

By Steve Levy If you want another example of blatant media slanting of the truth (besides what you’d find in my book Bias in the Media), check out an article entitled “Trump‘s tax cuts not […]

An investigation is confirming that it was the ridiculously leftist woke policies of Gavin Newsom and the progressives in Los Angeles and all of California that helped inflame the huge wildfires that caused death and […]

When I was county executive, I passed legislation that prohibited political party leaders and officers from having positions on county boards or holding county office, The rationale for this ethics reform was obvious. Party leaders […]

Last week, New York State Attorney General Tish James issued a memo  claiming that any school board member in New York State who dared to bring up the issue of gender identity at a school […]