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Alex Wong/Getty Images A protest outside of Jeff Bezos home in New York will urge him to back a wealth tax. The protests are happening on Tax Day and are run by a group called Patriotic Millionaires. In addition to the protest, the group sponsored billboards in D.C. and New York urging tax reform. "As a millionaire, tax me more." Thats the motto of members of the Patriotic Millionaires group, which is organizing protests and mobile billboards on Tax Day encouraging...

WHECTV Created: May 11, 2021 11:15 AM ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — The City of Rochester could be getting some extra funding, and Mayor Lovely Warren says it could help fulfill a proposed project to fill in another portion of the citys Inner Loop. New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand introduced the Reconnecting Communities Act into Congress. The senators say the bill would aim to revitalize and reconnect those communities that had highways built through them...

NationofChange “Too many buses spew dirty diesel. That hurts the workers, that hurts the commuters, that hurts everyone.” U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer joined with Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Chair Sherrod Brown brought forth The Clean Transit for America Plan which would invest $73 billion in electrifying public transit.  “Too many buses spew dirty diesel. That hurts the workers, that hurts the commuters, that hurts everyone,” says Schumer.  ...

In a democracy worthy of the name, the mentally invalid are not judged. But in a true democracy, one is... I expect Arab propagandists to spread such lies. I don’t expect the falsehoods to come from an academic center that was founded by a pro-Israel scholar, and is funded in part by donations from pro-Israel members of the Philadelphia-area Jewish community. The April 20 program is responding to, in part, the ongoing debate over the definition of antisemitism that has been crafted by the Int...

409-day drought ended: journey to first day of grand jury on Cayuga Nation Police highlights local government hesitancy, federal nonintervention Gabe is the National News Editor and works out of Washington, D.C. Have a tip? Send it to gabe@fingerlakes1.com. The first day of a Seneca County grand jury relating to the Cayuga Nation Police Department has officially ended, but it took 409-days for any sort of government to formally address the violent conflict in a court of law — or any public fo...

CDTA to get $51.7M in federal COVID aid, Albany Airport $13.4M | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 ALBANY — The massive new federal COVID relief plan contains $51.7 million for CDTA and $13.4 million for Albany International Airport. It’s part of $480 million in funding for upstate airports and transit systems in the American Rescue Plan, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday. Mass transit systems have seen greatly reduced ridership this past year, as remote work and ...

The embattled governors comments came on the day his party in New York and beyond turned sharply against him following allegations of harassment as well as sweeping criticism of Cuomo for keeping secret how many nursing home residents died of COVID-19 for months. Cuomos growing list of detractors now covers virtually every region in the state and the political power centers of New York City and Washington. A majority of Democrats in the state legislature and all but a handful of the states 29-m...

Governor Cuomo’s Fate: Remember Al Franken Editorial of The New York Sun | March 12, 2021 https://www.nysun.com/editorials/governor-cuomos-fate-remember-al-franken/91448/ The louder and more numerous the calls for Andrew Cuomo to resign the governorship of New York in the wake of allegations of sexual harassment, the more the Sun is inclined to urge him to hold out for impeachment. We have no particular investment in Mr. Cuomo’s tenure in Albany. We do have an investment in the idea of due p...

Tonight, we have breaking news as we come on the air. governor cuomo defiant today, still just moments ago tonight new yorks senators schumer and gillibrand saying governor cuomo should resign. the governor today refusing to step down amid growing calls. more than a dozen members of new yorks congressional delegation calling for him to resign now. for him to resign, including congressman jerry nadler and alexandria ocasio-cortez. it comes amid allegations from six women of misconduct, current an...

Federal COVID relief bill contains millions for Capital Region cities, counties, towns | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 Local and county governments in New York stand to gain billions under the $1.9 trillion federal stimulus package approved by the U.S. Senate over the weekend. With the House taking the measure up Monday, the package could be forwarded later this week to President Joe Biden, who has made the massive spending plan a priority. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., e...