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By Steve Levy The state government, which is desperate to balance a structural budget deficit of nearly $14 billion over the next three years, is grasping at straws to come up with solutions.  The ideal […]

By Bill Hammond Courtesy of The Empire Center  As Washington threatens to crack down on fraud and abuse in New York’s Medicaid program, state legislators are doing their best to demonstrate why federal intervention is […]

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that New York State’s Democratic-dominated Public Finance Board has maliciously denied public funding to Republican gubernatorial challenger Bruce Blakeman. We’ve seen the political hacks on this campaign […]

By Steve Levy Newsday published an outstanding article, which described how the New York Police Department‘s highest-ranking uniformed cop, John Chell, acknowledged that police departments give a free pass based upon who you know.  This […]

By Jim Soviero The latest media-hyped round of “No Kings” protests gives us all another glimpse into just how short on historical perspective, and long on blatant hypocrisy, these people truly are.  Let’s begin with […]

By Steve Levy Let’s talk about the Iran situation as fellow Americans — not as Democrats or Republicans or as Trump haters or Trump lovers. Let’s talk about Iran as it will affect our present […]

It seems just a couple of years ago that our nation and much of the world were headed toward an irreversible level of woke craziness in our culture and sports world, where men were going […]

A recent Newsday editorial sounded the alarm about potential energy price spikes that are slated to hit New York consumers over the next year as a result of the 2019 climate change laws implemented by […]

By Scott M. Davis Over the course of the past several decades, proposals to redevelop the Nassau HUB — nearly 72 acres of prime undeveloped real estate situated in the heart of Nassau County —have […]

By Steve Levy Kudos to the State of New York for passing new legislation that requires all retailers to accept cash.  How many of us have gone out, forgetting our credit cards when we’re in […]