Guy Bentley New York is reaping the whirlwind of sky-high cigarette taxes with a wave of smuggling decimating the state’s revenue. New York holds the dubious honor of having the highest cigarette taxes in country, with the average pack of smokes in New York City costing as much as $10.60. New York raised taxes on cigarettes…
Andrew Follett Iranian hackers infiltrated the control system of a dam approximately 20 miles from New York City in 2013, according to a Sunday report by the Wall Street Journal. When the White House was alerted, officials wrongly believed a much larger facility in Oregon had been hacked. The Iranian hackers likely gained access to the New York dam through a cellular modem,…
Blake Neff A group of lawmakers in New York are working to rename the Donald J. Trump State Park in response to his comments about Islam, with one suggesting the park be renamed after a Muslim war veteran who likely doesn’t actually exist. The park in question, located about 20 miles north of New York City,…
Michael Bastasch It’s been one year since Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he would ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, from happening in New York, and the natural gas-rich Southern Tier has been hemorrhaging jobs. While New York’s economy has added jobs on the whole, jobs are disappearing in regions where natural gas drilling would have…
Josh Fatzick A “Back To The Future” sequel likely won’t be coming out of New York City, after the perennial nanny state moved to make hover boards illegal Wednesday. Police in New York City now consider the self-balancing scooters, which aren’t exactly hover boards but have taken on the popular name, as motor vehicles, the…
Connor D. Wolf New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday a first of its kind executive order to raise the minimum wage for state workers to $15 an hour in the latest effort to enact the policy statewide. “I believe that if you work hard and work full-time, you should not be condemned to…
Connor D. Wolf Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Edmund J. McMahon warned Monday that a $15 minimum wage could kill pizza restaurants in New York state. McMahon spoke at a panel discussion hosted by the Center for New York City Affairs. He argued the minimum wage debate is too focused on large corporations. While big companies…
By Guy Bentley The latest report accusing Uber of being a jobs killer has been slammed as a “laughable attempt at economics” from a committee threatened by competition. The Committee for Taxi Safety released a report Monday claiming that should Uber expand throughout New York State, more than 11,000 nondriver jobs could be lost. The…
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Blake Neff A newly-released video shows that New York students remain confused about the implications of a new affirmative consent law that dramatically changes how they are expected to act in sexual situations. Under a New York law enacted last summer at the urging of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, all colleges receiving state funds are required to…
By R. Brownell Hillary has been having a hard time lately, not being able to outrun that whole e-mail scandal and losing ground to Colonel Sanders’s socialist Yankee cousin, and whatnot. Maybe her old stomping ground, the state of New York, can help soften her image? Or not… take a look for yourself how New Yorkers…