Legislature debates on a Friday and other near-apocalyptic signs
03/05/2021 04:00 PM EST
The Legislature is in session today, and it’s not because the budget’s late? Must be why pigs are soaring through Albany skies.
The bill to rein in some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s emergency pandemic powers needed to “age” after it was introduced earlier this week, and is now being approved in the Legislature more like stinky cheese than fine wine.
The state Senate passed the measure on a 43-20 party-line vote. It’s not like Republicans want Cuomo to keep his king-like control; they don’t think the legislation goes far enough because it keeps multiple Cuomo orders alive.
The plan, which Adams’ has dubbed NYC Advanced Income Deployment, or NYC AID, aims to boost the earned income tax credits poor families receive by more than 10 times and cost the city $1 billion annually.
Andrew Yang comes to aid of photographer attacked on Staten Island Ferry
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
Posted Feb 26, 2021
Andrew Yang speaks to a police officer following an incident on the Staten Island Ferry, Feb. 26, 2021. (Paul Liotta/Staten Island Advance)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Andrew Yang, a former Democratic presidential candidate and current frontrunner in the race for NYC mayor, came to the rescue of a photojournalist who was attacked Friday on the Staten Island Ferry.
Yang was traveling on the 11 a.m. boat from Manhattan to Staten Island for a tour of the borough, accompanied by his press staff and a few members of the media, including Getty photographer Spencer Platt.
New York City’s next mayor will inherit a host of complex problems when he or she steps into office Jan. 1, but there’s one pressing issue that’s been given relatively short shrift on the campaign trail so far: crime.