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Mamdani’s Taxes Would Make NYC Less Affordable

February 19, 2026 Hank Russell Comments Off on Mamdani’s Taxes Would Make NYC Less Affordable
By Steve Levy So New York City‘s new communist mayor is telling the world that he has only two choices to deal with his budget deficit. One is to raise income taxes and the other […]
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Don’t Vote for Those Undoing Pension Reforms

February 18, 2026 Hank Russell Comments Off on Don’t Vote for Those Undoing Pension Reforms
By Steve Levy Our Center for Cost Effective Government just published a white paper on why political donations from municipal unions to officials who negotiate with those unions should be illegal in the public sector, […]
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ICE Withdraws from Minneapolis. The Illegal Immigration Lobby is Winning

February 18, 2026 Hank Russell Comments Off on ICE Withdraws from Minneapolis. The Illegal Immigration Lobby is Winning
By Steve Levy The playbook of the Democrats over the last decade has been to flood the nation with as many illegal immigrants as possible, with the hope that, in the end, Independents and soft […]
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60 Minutes Segment Shows How Media Bias Works

February 13, 2026 Hank Russell Comments Off on 60 Minutes Segment Shows How Media Bias Works
By Steve Levy 60 Minutes was once the gold standard of hard-hitting, unbiased investigative journalism. You really couldn’t tell which political stripes they were wearing. But that hasn’t been the case for decades. Scott Pelley […]
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Combating the Scourge of Kratom in Nassau County

February 12, 2026 Hank Russell Comments Off on Combating the Scourge of Kratom in Nassau County
By Arnold W. Drucker Our most consequential responsibility as public servants, parents, and community leaders is to confront emerging threats to the health and wellness of our children. Frighteningly, many of these can be found […]
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Voters Once Again Get Fooled by So-Called ‘Moderate’ Democrats

February 9, 2026 Hank Russell Comments Off on Voters Once Again Get Fooled by So-Called ‘Moderate’ Democrats
How many times have we said it before: There is no longer any such thing as a moderate Democrat? Sure, there are a multitude of Democrats who run campaigns professing to be moderates, but in […]
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It’s No Surprise Teachers Unions Would Try to Block Charters

February 8, 2026 Hank Russell Comments Off on It’s No Surprise Teachers Unions Would Try to Block Charters
Low-income parents in Brentwood and Central Islip who were jumping for joy at the opportunity to send their children to high-performing charter schools that would be established in their area had to be highly dismayed […]
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Verdict Puts Stake in Heart of Child Mutilation Industry

February 7, 2026 Hank Russell Comments Off on Verdict Puts Stake in Heart of Child Mutilation Industry
By Steve Levy Little attention has been given to a landmark verdict this past month that awarded $2 million to an individual who had her breasts removed by doctors who, the jury claimed, pressured the […]
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Seven Reasons Not To Raise Taxes in New York

February 6, 2026 Hank Russell Comments Off on Seven Reasons Not To Raise Taxes in New York
By Bill Hammond Courtesy of The Empire Center Despite the robust growth of state revenues in recent years, many of New York’s elected officials are pushing to further increase the tax burden on the state’s […]
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Nassau Must Get Serious About Delivering Opioid Funds

February 6, 2026 Hank Russell Comments Off on Nassau Must Get Serious About Delivering Opioid Funds
By Olena Nicks Since 2019, Nassau County has had an Opioid Crisis Action Plan at its disposal. Yet, it has sat on a bookshelf, collecting dust as the opioid crisis rages onward and over $90 […]

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