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OPINION: Squatters’ Rights: Bad Policy Leads to Bad Public Safety
I [recently] joined small property owners and my colleagues in the Assembly Minority Conference to call out New York State’s flawed and unfair squatting laws. Thanks to a perfect storm of bad lawmaking, an overflow of unvetted migrants, and unethical TikTok posts, New York homeowners have been subjected to an unprecedented assault on their private […]
OPINION: FDR’s Four Freedoms Speech is Still Relevant Today
President Joe Biden reached back into history in his recent State of the Union (SOTU) address, citing a January 1941 speech in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) called on America to reject isolationism and engage with the world. This was the famous “Four Freedoms” speech, when FDR laid out his idealistic vision of “four essential
OPINION: New York’s Cannabis Operation Needs a Complete Overhaul
New York State’s attempt at legalizing cannabis has been a predictable failure. Our inefficient bureaucracy is troubling enough when it comes to basic policy items like infrastructure and taxation, so a complex policy like the commercial sale of cannabis was destined to be a nightmare for this administration. For this reason, the Assembly Minority Conference
OPINION: Can We Bridge Division
Disagree better. That’s the name of an interesting initiative at the National Governors Association (NGA) this year, spearheaded by the organization’s current chair, Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox. The idea, in a nutshell, is to “reduce partisan animosity and foster healthy debate by modeling a more positive and optimistic way of working through policy problems,”
OPINION: Helping Families Afford Childcare Solves Major NYS Concerns
The new spending plan for New York State [that has an April 1 deadline] should be crafted to deliver economic growth and financial relief for all New Yorkers. Unfortunately, recent budgets have spent far too much and provided far too little in the way of meaningful fiscal relief for hardworking families. “Cutting costs and improving
OPINION: Abandon Biden Movement Peels off Progressive, Young, Minority Voters in Key States
The Abandon Biden movement — a movement largely started by Arab activists in Michigan unhappy with President Joe Biden’s stance on Israel — has rapidly spread to other states and is a warning sign of the fragmentation that Democrats are experiencing. In the Michigan primary [in late February], Democrats cast more than 101,000 votes labeled
OPINION: Inflation is still high as Fed weighs interest-rate cuts
Consumer inflation ticked up 0.4 percent in February to an annual rate of 3.2 percent amid a jump in oil, gasoline, natural gas, transportation, and shelter, according to the latest data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Gasoline was up 3.8 percent. Fuel oil rose 1.1 percent. Natural gas was up 2.3 percent. Used cars
OPINION: Immigrants drive U.S. economy
The American economy is thriving, and immigration should get some of the credit. That’s the message from experts who highlight the critical role that immigrants are playing in the workforce. This may seem surprising when immigration is under attack and chaos at the border is a staple of political rhetoric. But immigrants are filling essential
OPINION: New York Must Pass “Laken’s Law” & Restore Public Safety
Laken Riley was a bright and promising 22-year-old nursing student at the University of Georgia before she was brutally murdered while out for a jog in broad daylight. The man charged with her killing is an illegal immigrant who crossed the southern border in 2022, made his way to New York, was arrested in New
OPINION: Wave of Retirements Should Serve as a Warning for Congress
Recently, I had occasion to look back at some of the early speeches I gave after I first went to Congress in 1965 as a young freshman member from Indiana. Admittedly, six decades is a long time. But even so, what I found was jarring. Congress, I liked to tell audiences back then, worked in
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