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By Clifford Sondock Governor Kathy Hochul is right to address New York’s housing shortage by overriding burdensome, overreaching local zoning authorities. Local zoning empowers a spider web of 111 self-interested, parochial village and town fiefdoms […]

Few politicians on Long Island over the last decade have shown the type of courage exhibited by Suffolk Legislator Rob Trotta in defending the interests of the taxpayer. Trotta has been embroiled in many controversies […]

by Steve Levy The term “liberal” was once meant to be a representation of open-minded thought that coincided with the Renaissance, the rise of democracies and the advent of free thought as espoused by Locke, […]

By Keith P. Brown Gov. Kathy Hochul’s housing plan will not “liberat[e] Long Island to be the best that it can be,” as she is quoted in Newsday, but, rather, it will forgo state environmental […]

Assistant District Attorney Shea Sanna tried to alert the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office about how they were being played by a convicted child molester. He was suspended for his efforts. https://www.foxnews.com/media/la-prosecutor-hannah-tubbs-case-slams-suspension-gascon-punished-hurting-child-molesters-feelings “Hannah” Tubbs, born […]

The Supreme Court is hearing a case from the family of individuals murdered by Isis, claiming that social media platforms encouraged the killing by not policing their platform well enough.  The court is determining whether […]

Remember how we all panicked during the first months of Covid, given the government did not stockpile enough masks and ventilators for such an emergency? We swore we would never be caught flat-footed again. But […]

FEMA initially refused to give aid to Ohio residents after a freight train spilled toxic chemicals into their air and water. But FEMA was quick to act to spend $800 million in blankets, buses and […]

Politics in Albany has always been slimy, but the New York Senate is becoming a bastion of disgust. Just look at some of the recent actions it has taken over the last few years.  Cashless […]