Health Dept. urged employees to skip work for immigration rally

(Hat tip: KimR) - New York: The city Health Department encouraged employees to leave work Thursday and attend a rally condemning the Supreme Court’s split decision to block President Obama’s immigration plan, The Post has learned. An e-mail sent to DOH workers informed them of the City Hall event hosted by Mayor de Blasio and urged that they participate. Read more at the New York Post Read More......

NYC: The mayor is going down!

(Hat tip: KimR) - Less than a week ago, Mayor de Blasio was offering aid to Ecuadorians after the earthquake there. Now a political earthquake is rocking City Hall and the mayor is the one who needs help. Read more at the New York Post Read More......

Pregnancy Centers Win Battle After New York City Attempts to Force Them to Promote Abortion State

(Hat tip: KimR) - A settlement that a federal district court approved Wednesday protects the right of pro-life pregnancy care centers in New York City to serve women without being forced to speak or post messages that are contrary to their pro-life beliefs or that direct women away from the services the centers offer. Read more at Life News Read More......

Bangladesh: New York fed had ‘major lapse’ in $100M robbery

(Hat tip: KimR) - Bangladesh’s central bank has suggested the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had a “major lapse" in allowing hackers to transfer $101 million in transactions that it later flagged as suspicious, according to an internal document seen by Bloomberg. Read more at MSN.com Read More......

NYC mayor orders that men have access to women’s restrooms

(Hat tip: KimR) - New York Mayor Bill de Blasio issued an executive order giving men the right to use women's bathrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa. The mayor's edict is called, "Access to Single-Sex City Facilities Consistent With Gender Identity and Expression." It means that all New York City single-gender facilities must accommodate both sexes, including city buildings and offices, parks, children's playgrounds, swimming pools, and more, all access given without showing identification or any proof of gender. Read more at Life Site News Read More......

Policy change would let illegal immigrants apply for professional licenses

(Hat tip: KimR) - Illegal immigrants in New York will be able to apply for teaching and other professional licenses under a controversial policy approved by the state Board of Regents. The new policy will cover the so-called "Dreamers," undocumented residents given exemption from deportation under an executive order issued by President Obama in 2012. Read more at the New York Post Read More......

Emboldened by Silver conviction, Bharara to indict Cuomo Jan 2nd

...Three sources are confirming that Bharara intends to indict Governor Andrew Cuomo on January 2nd — along with a half dozen associates and former staffers — on public corruption, racketeering, conspiracy, and honest services fraud.

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It's Official: Ground Zero Mosque Defeated!

The infamous Ground Zero Mosque project is officially dead. We won. We the People. --Crains New York reports that the unsavory developer behind the Ground Zero Mosque initiative, Sharif El-Gamal, is now making different plans: “Mr. El-Gamal’s Soho Properties has proposed a 667-foot condominium tower at lower Manhattan’s 45 Park Place. The glass skyscraper, which has yet to break ground, will include at least 15 full-floor units of 3,200 to 3,700 square feet, and average prices higher than $3,000 a square foot, according to plans released to Bloomberg by the developer.”

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Top Obamacare health insurance plan in Onondaga County going bust

A company that has enrolled more Onondaga County residents in private Obamacare health plans than any other insurer is going out of business. --The state has ordered Health Republic of New York to stop writing new insurance policies because regulators expect the company to become financially insolvent. --Existing individual Health Republic policies will remain in effect through Dec. 31, according to the state Department of Financial Services. Health Republic customers will be able to sign up with another insurer for 2016 coverage when open enrollment begins Nov. 1.

Read more at the Syracuse Post Standard
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EXCLUSIVE: New York 2015 - FOUR THOUSAND sleeping on the streets, 80 homeless encampments in the city...

...and beggars making $75 a day as arrests for panhandling and street drinking plunge. --They are sleeping in front of the Empire State building, sprawled in front of the doors of Macy's, and panhandling outside Grand Central. New York is in the grip of a homeless epidemic so bad that it has raised fears of the city slipping back into the disorder of the 1970s and 1980s.

Read more at the UK Daily Mail
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Ron Sherman: Yellow cabs vs. Uber: Tale of the tax tape

It's easy to take yellow cabs for granted. Taxis are ubiquitous in the city, moving 500,000 New Yorkers, tourists and business travelers daily. --But what do they really contribute to the local and state coffers? With new competition like Uber and all kinds of assertions and assumptions being made about the value of these businesses, it seemed like a good time to provide New Yorkers with the facts.

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Flouting The Law, Some New Yorkers Won't Register Guns

New York state has some of the toughest gun laws in the country. Compliance with those laws is another matter. --New York passed a broad package of gun regulations after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., despite the objections of hunters and gun rights advocates. Now it appears that many gun owners are refusing to comply with a key provision that requires the registration of so-called assault weapons. --"I think this law was so incredibly repressive that it drove people to the point now that they're basically saying we're not going to abide by any more laws," says Brian Olesen, the owner of American Trade and Goods and several other outdoor stores around Albany, N.Y., that stock a wide range of guns for hunting and self-defense. Olesen says his customers overwhelmingly oppose the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act — or SAFE Act, as the 2013 gun law is known.

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New York Gov. Cuomo to state Economy: "Drop Dead"

Getta load of Andrew Cuomo, the governor of the once-great state of New York. For the first time ever, reports Business Insider, a U.S. state "may single out one industry for a big wage hike." --Under a plan approved by New York's Fast Food Wage Board, a $15-per-hour minimum wage would be phased in over three years in New York City and six years across upstate New York, whose economy has long been the American equivalent of East Germany. The mandate would apply to any restaurant chain with 30 or more locations in the state.

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The Hill: GOP poll shows tie in race to replace Weiner

By Cameron Joseph - A GOP poll commissioned for Republican businessman Bob Turner has him tied with New York state Assemblyman David Weprin (D) at 42 percent each with 12 days until the special election to replace former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.). Read more at The Hill...

Registration in Weiner's [former] district is 3:1 Dems!

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Giuliani: 9/11 Trials in NYC Will Lead to More Terrorism

NEWSMAX, 11/13/2009 - Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani blasted the Obama administration on Friday for its decision to try five Sept. 11 suspects in New York, saying that such a trial would only encourage terrorists to target the city once again. ∴ Earlier Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba would be transported onto U.S. soil to face justice in civilian court. Read more at Newsmax... Read More......

Scozzafava Drops Out

10/31/2009 - Republican Scozzafava Drops Out of New York Congressional Race. Republican state Assemblywoman Dierdre Scozzafava has suspended her campaign for upstate New York's 23rd Congressional District seat, giving a possible boost to Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman against Democrat Bill Owens, Fox News has confirmed. ∴ The move comes on the heels of a new poll that showed Republican Dede Scozzafava had fallen behind her two competitors in a race too close. Read more at Fox News...
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