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By Ed Ra On March 28, the Assembly took up the first of its ten budget bills, the debt service bill, which is necessary to make legally required payments related to the sale and servicing […]

Equating the Former with the Latter Is A Slap in the Face to Public Safety By Keith Brown Nadia Vitels, a 52-year-old mother, was brutally killed, allegedly by two squatters who had been occupying her […]

By Will Barclay New York’s attempt at legalizing cannabis has been a predictable failure. Our inefficient bureaucracy is troubling enough when it comes to basic policy items like infrastructure and taxation, so a complex policy […]

Oops, they did it again. The mainstream media, which is now nothing more than just a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party, has once again diminished its credibility by blatantly and deliberately taking out of context […]

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer‘s speech calling for the people of Israel to throw their elected president out of office is an unprecedented betrayal of an international democratic ally. Moreover, it’s an obvious craven push to […]

By Keith Brown If we enact the governor’s Executive Budget, state spending will have increased by $60 billion in the past five years — a 35% jump. Further, if we enact the Assembly or Senate […]

Governor Kathy Hochul has submitted the name of Sammy Chu to be her representative for Suffolk County on the MTA board. https://www.newsday.com/opinion/the-point/the-point-newsday-metropolitan-transportation-authority-board-sammy-chu-marc-herbst-nancy-marks-o7kc32fw This is the same Sammy Chu, who, as the representative from former Suffolk […]

By Keith Brown While I commend the Assembly Majority for taking steps to offset steep financial costs for our state’s education system and senior programs, the one-house budget in its entirety is bloated, riddled with […]

By Will Barclay Assembly Democrats’ $245.8 billion one-house budget plan isn’t just a wish-list, it’s a pipe dream. Adding $13 billion in spending to the governor’s Executive Budget demonstrates how out-of-touch they are with New […]

By Gina Sillitti The Assembly’s proposed budget was released on March 12, and I’m proud that several priorities I fought for were included. The biggest victory for our district was the rejection of the Governor’s […]