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JFK Airport strike during Memorial Day weekend averted after Gov. Hochul intervention

A planned strike by fuel workers at John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens over Memorial Day weekend was averted after Gov. Kathy Hockal stepped in to resolve the labor dispute, The Washington Post has learned. Teamsters Local 553, which represents 300 workers and mechanics who refuel commercial and cargo planes at the airport, announced a […]

Hochul admin quietly puts brakes on alleged ‘predatory’ cannabis funding program

The Hochul administration has quietly put the brakes on a multimillion-dollar fund designed to help underprivileged people open cannabis stores, instead creating a predatory and potentially draining state fund. It is said that last month, bomb report Officials with the Department of State Dormitory Services (DASNY), which oversees the funding program, are working with private […]

Hochul flying to Italy, Ireland on taxpayer dime for climate, business events

Gov. Kathy Hochul is spending 10 cents of taxpayers’ money to fly overseas this week to attend climate change and business events in Italy and Ireland. The trip, Hochul’s second overseas trip since becoming governor in August 2021, follows New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ visit to Vatican City and Rome last week as a […]

Adams, Hochul tout passage of law allowing city to lower speed limits

Traffic safety advocates hailed a new law that would allow the Big Apple to lower speed limits on city streets to 16 mph. The bill, dubbed “Sammy’s Law” in memory of 12-year-old Sammy Cohen Eckstein, who was fatally hit by a van near her Park Slope home in 2013, is part of the state budget. […]

White House distances itself from Hochul black children ‘computer’ comments

The White House said it had not heard a high-profile Democrat’s comments regarding black children in the Bronx, but offered a mild rebuke nonetheless. “Obviously, we don’t think that is the right way to speak about young people in any way, in any form,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday when asked about the brewing […]

Dem NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Says ‘Young Black Kids’ Don’t Know the Word ‘Computer’

Gov. Cathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) believes that “young black kids growing up in the Bronx don’t even know the word ‘computer.’ “They don’t know,” she added. “They don’t know about these things.” New York’s governor thinks black children don’t know what the word “computer” is. pic.twitter.com/N13QL1efGf — Postmillennial (@TPostMillennial) May 7, 2024 This disdain for black […]