NYC pols from all boroughs urge NY Gov. Kathy Hochul to keep rule limiting pot shops
City council members from each ward are calling on Governor Kathy Hawkle to block the state’s Cannabis Control Commission’s efforts to allow more licensed marijuana stores to open in New York City neighborhoods. Nine members of the council’s “Common Sense” Caucus sent a letter to Hochle on Monday slamming what critics call a half-baked proposal […]
Staten Island pols urge Hochul yank MTA board member
Seven Staten Island politicians are pressuring Governor Hoffle to fire the MTA board member who recommended removing promised new rail cars from the forgotten borough. In their letter to the governor, the representatives blasted non-voting MTA board member Norman Brown for displaying “clearly hostile bias and callousness” during a June committee meeting about the now-suspended […]
Hochul restarts 2nd Ave. subway project and punts congestion pricing revenue fight to 2025
Gov. Kathy Hawkle has freed up $54 million to restart the Second Avenue subway construction project that was stalled by the abrupt halt to congestion pricing, but she acknowledged Tuesday that the question of how to fill a $15 billion hole in the MTA’s budget will drag on into next year. The state Legislature ended […]
Top staffers flee NY cannabis regulator after Gov. Kathy Hochul dumps agency’s head
THC See you soon! Several top officials at New York’s marijuana regulator have resigned after Gov. Kathy Hawkle fired the agency’s chief, calling it a “disaster.” Officials leaving the Office of Cannabis Control (OCM) include Health and Safety Director Nicole Rosa, Deputy Director for Licensing Daniel Holmes, First Deputy General Counsel Patricia Piskorski Heer and […]
FBI raids home of former Hochul aide
The FBI searched the Long Island home of a former aide to New York Governor Kathy Hockle earlier this week. Federal agents searched Linda Sun’s five-bedroom, $3.5 million mansion in a gated community on Long Island’s North Shore. “The New York FBI conducted court-authorized law enforcement operations in Manhasset,” an FBI spokesperson told Fox News […]
FBI raids home of former NY chief diversity officer who also worked for Gov. Hochul
Early Tuesday morning, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched the Long Island home of a former aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hockle (D). The New York Times report. The five-bedroom, $3.5 million mansion that Linda Sun shares with her husband, Chris Foo, is located in a gated community on the North Shore. […]
FBI raids former Hochul aide’s $3.5M Long Island home
A former aide to Gov. Kathy Hawkle was reportedly subjected to an FBI raid early Tuesday morning at her $3.5 million Long Island home. Federal agents conducted a pre-dawn search of the five-bedroom property in a gated Manhasset community where one of Hawkle’s former deputy chiefs of staff, Linda Sun, lives. The New York Times […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul asks Biden for emergency declaration after severe weather devastates parts of NY
New York Gov. Kathy Hockle has asked President Joe Biden to declare a federal emergency after severe weather devastated parts of the state earlier this week. Hawkle’s letter to Biden cited the high winds and heavy rains that wreaked havoc on July 15 and 16 across 15 counties, including Genesee, Herkimer, Montgomery, Oswego, Oneida, Saratoga […]
Hochul signs bills to extinguish deadly e-bike battery fires that killed 18 in NYC
New York is rekindling its fight against lithium-ion battery fires in electric bikes. Gov. Kathy Hockle signed a package of bills Thursday banning dangerous, low-quality batteries that she said have been linked to about 270 fires in New York City last year alone, killing 18 people. “These batteries don’t burn like firewood, they explode like […]
Biden joins Elton John, Hochul at opening of NYC Stonewall Inn national monument
President Biden was in New York on Friday to attend the grand opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor’s Center, marking the 55th anniversary of the historic riots that launched the American gay rights movement. Still reeling from his terrible performance in Thursday’s presidential debate with Donald Trump that shocked the nation, the 81-year-old Trump […]