Tag: New York State
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Opinion | Crime Takes a Dip in New York
[ad_1] Cities often forget and have to relearn that active policing reduces crime, but the results leave little room for doubt. New York’s neighborhood patrols are rolling back deadly violence, despite the progressive groups trying to dismantle them. The New York City Police Department on Wednesday released its year-end crime numbers for 2023. The trend…
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Opinion | Shocker: Sanity Prevails in New York
[ad_1] In the rare good news department, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ended the year by vetoing two bills that would have driven more businesses and high earners out of the state. Are declining tax revenue and population spurring a political awakening? It would be nice to think so. Ms. Hochul vetoed a bill that…
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Opinion | Union to Eric Adams: Drop Dead
[ad_1] Public unions are big cities’ toughest customers, even for an ally like New York’s Eric Adams. The mayor is patching the city’s budget amid a growing migrant crisis, but government workers are dragging him to court to block cost savings. One of New York’s largest public unions sued Wednesday to prevent City Hall from…
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Samuel Morse’s Moving Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette
[ad_1] Samuel Morse came to Washington in February 1825, an ambitious but frustrated 33-year-old artist. Before the discovery of telegraphy and the code that bears his name, he was nearly as well known for his paintings as for his father, the famed geographer Jedidiah Morse. Or as the Marquis de Lafayette jested to his son…
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Opinion | Democrats Stage a Congressional Map-Making Coup in New York
[ad_1] Updated Dec. 12, 2023 6:44 pm ET Congratulations to Democrats who on Tuesday significantly increased their odds of picking up at least four House seats next November—thanks to New York’s Court of Appeals. A progressive 4-3 majority on the state’s high court bowed to the left and threw out the current court-ordered House map…
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Opinion | The Migrant Crisis and the Urban Death Spiral
[ad_1] Cities are organic entities. They have life cycles. They can thrive and grow or suffer and shrink. As secretary of housing and urban development, I learned this firsthand. Detroit wasn’t always the Detroit of today. San Francisco today is different from San Francisco 10 years ago. New York, Los Angeles and Chicago aren’t what…
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Opinion | New York’s Near Zombie Apocalypse
[ad_1] The city came close to an electric grid shutdown last winter. [ad_2] Source link
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Opinion | Lessons in Leadership From the Hebrew Bible
[ad_1] An orthodox rabbi grapples with the evident shortcomings of America’s political class. [ad_2] Source link
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Opinion | Another New York Gift to Florida
[ad_1] Nov. 21, 2023 12:58 pm ET As lousy as New York’s business climate is, it can get worse. Democrats in Albany are reminding businesses of this by passing legislation that would ban so-called non-compete agreements in employer contracts. Call it another gift to Florida. Opposition to non-compete agreements has become a new cause celebre…