New York’s racial reparations idiocy

Gov. Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, and state Senate President Andrea Stewart-Cousins last week named appointees to the state’s “reparations” commission, beginning a process that is certain to worsen race relations in New York state. The nine-member commission, officially named the Community Reparations and Redress Commission, said: “The legacy of slavery, the subsequent discrimination against […]
Trump fraud ruling reveals New York’s ‘assault’ on real estate, ‘Mr Wonderful’ says: Move your business out

Kevin O’Leary, president of O’Leary Ventures and aka “Mr. Wonderful” from “Shark Tank,” has ruled that a state judge has ruled that former President Trump must pay $355 million in punitive damages in a civil fraud case. Following the ruling, real estate investors were warned against developing in New York. O’Leary told “Fox & Friends […]
New York’s $700 Million Annual Giveaway to Hollywood Is a Flop, Says State Report

New York taxpayers are picking up the shaft again — this time, in the form of the state giving Hollywood $700 million a year in tax incentives for TV and movie shoots. A new state-commissioned report finds the plan is a huge failure. For every dollar the state awarded in Hollywood tax breaks from 2018 […]
Democrat Tom Suozzi Wins New York’s Special Congressional Election

Former Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) won a special election for New York’s 3rd House of Representatives, defeating House Republicans who already lacked a majority. As of 10:06 p.m. ET, the Associated Press reported. called In Suozzi’s race, he defeated Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip, a Nassau County council member and former paratrooper in the Israel Defense […]
New York’s Museum of Modern Art Forced to Close as anti-Israel Protesters Storm In

Hundreds of anti-Israel demonstrators stormed the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York on Saturday afternoon, forcing it to close early. Arts and culture website Highly allergic According to reports, nearly 800 pro-Palestinian demonstrators filled the museum’s atrium to protest the museum’s trustees’ alleged investment in Israeli military weapons. Reports say protesters distributed more […]
New York’s attorney general increases $3B crypto fraud lawsuit

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday expanded her case against Digital Currency Group and other crypto defendants, tripling the size of the fraud scheme to more than $3 billion. In October, James sued DCG, its Genesis Global Capital unit, and Gemini Trust, an exchange run by twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. She […]
Democrat Suozzi running for George Santos seat takes heat for 2019 post on ICE amid New York’s migrant crisis

George Santos’ former staff involved in successor election Nysa Woomer, a Republican strategist whose work includes work in the administrations of ousted Rep. George Santos and former Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, spoke to Fox News Digital about the special election in New York’s 3rd Congressional District. New York Democrat Tom Suozzi, who is running in […]
Connecticut cannabis shortage contrasts with neighboring New York’s oversupply

Cannabis retailers in Connecticut say they are running out of product to sell because of a lack of licensed growers in the state’s nascent legal cannabis industry. Supply issues surfaced last year as retail growth in neighboring New York state slowed and New York producers struggled with a counter-supply glut. Both problems seem easy to […]
Message in a bottle found in New York’s Shinnecock Bay 32 years later

A message in a bottle written in a ninth-grade science class on Long Island 32 years ago was discovered Thursday in New York’s Shinnecock Bay, according to a Facebook post. The letter, written in October 1992, read: “Dear Discoverer, As part of a 9th grade earth science project, this bottle was thrown into the Atlantic […]