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My blog on the brilliant memo by New York D.A. Alvin Bragg to refute Trump’s effort to set aside his conviction was published literally minutes before the judge who presided over the trial, Juan Merchan, decided to delay both Trump’s sentencing and his decision on Trump’s motion to set aside his conviction until after the…
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A ruling by Judge Juan Merchan on Donald Trump’s motion to set aside his New York hush-money conviction is expected on September 16th, 2024, and is the hinge upon which Trump is seeking to escape accountability for his crimes, with new motions to either postpone sentencing (scheduled for Sept.18) until after the election, or remove…
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Governor Hochul recently delayed implementation of congestion pricing, right before it was supposed to be implemented. Why? What will happen now? Will congestion pricing ever happen? How will this impact traffic, transit improvements and the MTA budget?
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Governor Hochul’s last-second announcement on June 5th, 2024, to pause New York’s Congestion Pricing Plan caused understandable dismay and even outrage from supporters of mass transit in the region, while the decision was hailed by leaders in the New York City suburbs and even some in the City’s boroughs outside of Manhattan. There are two…
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In my Part One on why President Biden is not to blame for inflation in the United States, I looked at how the COVID-19 pandemic turned the economy upside down in 2020 and 2021. In that piece, I noted that it was inevitable that Americans liberating themselves from the 2020 stay-at-home economy and hitting the…
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Leading up to the 2020 election, I wrote a series of blog posts titled, “The Purple Highway.” This time around, I’m going to, once again, write a number of posts about the 2024 election called, “The Precarious Election.” Why the Precarious Election? It’s because this time, it looks like the election between President Biden and…
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The emotionally unsatisfactory 2024 election was particularly unsettling for loyal Democrats this past fall and winter  as former President Trump  outperformed President Biden in the polls, with the polling average showing Trump ahead by as many as three points in late January and early February 2024 (45-42), according to The Economist’s Trump Biden polling tracker.…
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In this episode, Jim chats with his guests about significant features of the NYS budget (the NYS House and Senate recently passed separate versions, but the full legislature has yet to pass a final version) and also dives more deeply into the affordable housing crisis.
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The New York State Department of Labor reported on March 7th, 2024 that employment in New York grew by over 59,000 from December 2023 to January 2024. Private sector employment grew by 47,000. The healthy improvement also prompted Governor Hochul to announce that “ New York is back, “ since private sector employment in the…
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Governor Hochul submitted the State budget to the New York State Legislature on January 16th for Fiscal Year 2024-2025, to begin April 1st, 2024. A Cautious Initial Budget Proposal Governor Hochul submitted a cautious budget; cautious out of a belief there isn’t that much more money to spend, and cautious politically because her proposals to…
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