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By Will Barclay   After a month-long delay that featured six emergency extenders, secretive meetings and several backdoor deals, the recently passed state budget amounted to another missed opportunity. At a time when inflation remains […]

By Will Barclay After weeks of negotiations and six budget extenders, the final state budget ended up right where it started: too much spending, too much regulation, too many taxes and too many reasons for […]

by Rob Trotta and Steve Levy   While there is a consensus that expanding sewers in Suffolk County could help improve the environment and allow for needed targeted economic expansion, we vehemently oppose unnecessarily raising […]

We are no fans of Alec Baldwin’s liberal policies or erratic disposition, but we call it straight. So when we saw that the actor was being charged with murder in the accidental shooting of a […]

If you want to get a better idea of how bias in the media works, look no further than the two headlines juxtaposed against each other by Newsday and the New York Post regarding a […]

By Will Barclay New York continues to lag the nation in job recovery, but creating the new profession of “career criminal” is not the answer. Crime across the state, and particularly in New York City, […]

George Orwell warned us in his famous book 1984 that, at one point in the Marxist socialist dystopia: ● What was up, would be down. ● What was in, would be out. ● Two plus […]

By Steve Levy First, we learned that the Department of Justice and the FBI placed targets on the heads of parents throughout the country who dared to speak out at school board meetings in a […]

By Long Island Life & Politics Want to know how screwed up New York State is? The governor just nominated to the position of the chief justice of the Court of Appeals, the state’s highest […]