New York State Government

For the second straight summer, July has started out like a scene from "Jaws" on New York beaches. Four swimmers were attacked and bitten over the past holiday weekend.

In 2021, New York State voters convincingly rejected a referendum to expand mail-in voting. In an attempt to circumvent the wishes of their constituents, the state Senate and Assembly passed The New York Early Voter Act on June 9th.

Reports came out Tuesday, that Governor Hochul plans to have up to 1500 migrants transported to various SUNY campuses throughout New York State. The plan is to house the migrants in the unoccupied dorms during the summer months. Then what?

Eight whales have died on New York beaches since January. Ten whales perished in the span of two months at the end of 2022. Today, another was added to the list on the beaches of Robert Moses State Park.

Last summer, for about a three week period on New York's south shore beaches, ocean swimmers were on shark alert. Six victims were bitten during that time period in rather shallow water, on the white sands of Long Island. This year, New York's Governor Kathy Hochul says that the state parks are ready to take on the monsters of the deep.

It's one thing to be so good at baseball, that the player is enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. It's another thing, when that same player faced the challenge of serving in the United States military during wartime. The U.S. Navy decided those players were special.

Telling the truth has not been characteristic revealed by rookie-Congressman George Santos in his short tenure in the United States House of Representatives. Despite being caught in dozens of lies from the campaign trail and on, Santos has continued to represent his New York constituents. That could be until now.

U.S News released their annual state rankings this week. Which of the 50-states is the best to live in and why? Some people are pretty biased. As a lifelong New Yorker, it is difficult to agree with priorities of someone in, say, Utah.

There has been a bizarre twist in the cold case murder of an NYPD detective's daughter in Orange County. Following last week's celebrated arrest, a procedural mistake is about to set Megan McDonald's killer free, likely temporarily. Compounding the intrigue is the fact that the District Attorney in the case has now recused himself, due to conflict of interest.

After being elected in November, navigating her own Democratic party has not been easy for Governor Kathy Hochul. After suffering an embarrassing loss, when the Senate rejected Justice Hector LaSalle as New York's chief judge, the governor was forced to pivot to a more liberal Justice Rowan D. Wilson, for a quick win.

Scientists continue to say that we know more about space than what lies beneath the sea. It seems to hard to believe in the crowded Long Island Sound, a 92-foot submarine would be just lying there unnoticed for nearly 80 years. Apparently, that was the case.

The New York State budget is 18 days late. Even though April 1st is the same date each year, the budget deadline seemed to sneak up on our state legislators in 2023.