Hamas is still holding Americans and won't let the Red Cross see them.

You'll never guess which one Albany was limiting growth for and which one had a state-set minimum.

If you pay off your loans in the standard 10 years and move on, these rates will wallop you.

If you make the absolute minimum payment under the SAVE plan and extend repayment over 20 years, after which your loans are forgiven, these rates won't matter.

Perverse incentives.

And that's not counting all the Brewster's Millions larping in state legislatures.

THE WRATH OF CON

This is good watchdog work. After a UAlbany student was nearly killed, the Albany County Sheriff seized almost as many dirt bikes in Albany in a day as the Albany (city) Police Department did in three years.

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Sir, this WAS a Wendy’s.

This is part of why labor unions love 'card check,' where employees aren't allowed to use a secret ballot and instead get exposed to strong-arming.

Disagree w. Chris Churchill's push for $3.5B rebuild of I-787 in Albany but proponents should know this would be much less costly (more doable) in nearly any other state. NY's prevailing wage and trial-lawyer giveaways are why we can't have nice things.
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Absolutely stunning. The city took away most of the roughly 38,500 Airbnbs, and used lower-cost hotels as migrant shelters (seemingly w no end in sight), and this is the result.

My reporting on Airbnb reason.com/2023/09/08/did…

Between Stormy Daniels and the ruling against Prop 1 today's forecast for newsdump weather is revised to 100 percent.

But CUNY faculty will have their loans forgiven regardless.

Hard to argue for rushing the resolution when proponents wanted it placed on the 2024 ballot instead of 2023.

The pension sweeteners approved by Albany this spring were about winning elections this fall, explains Hank Sheinkopf, PhD. 'Political costs outweigh economic costs.' newsday.com/news/region-st…

After Albany passed a $4B giveaway for public employees, some major league quiet-part-out-loud:

“The unions provide manpower and they write checks, and both are needed in election years,” Sheinkopf said. “Political costs outweigh economic costs.”

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Coming up on Friday: We're going to examine New York's newly enacted 'MCO tax' -- and how it fits into the state's long history of heavily taxing health insurance.

Register here: empirecenter.org/publications/t…

Here's the CUNY faculty union looking to get the criminal charges dropped for the CUNY faculty who obstructed police at City College.

Question for Governor Kathy Hochul: why are they still CUNY faculty?

$7 million from NYS taxpayers
÷ 57 new jobs
=$122,807 per new job