Month: September 2020

BY EMILY ESTELLE Maj. Gen. Dagvin Anderson, the commander of US Special Operations Command Africa, gave a sobering assessment of the increasing security threats posed by al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and their ilk in Africa in an AEI webinar

BY KEVIN R. KOSAR For the past several years, there have been murmurings on Capitol Hill about possibly bringing back earmarks. Now it appears possible that the scandal-tainted earmarks of old may never come back. This week, a congressional committee

BY E.J. McMAHON Six months into the novel coronavirus pandemic, New York State’s private-sector employment recovery was the slowest in the 48 contiguous states—and getting slower. The latest monthly jobs report from the state Labor Department and the Bureau of Labor Statistics

BY E.J. McMAHON Forty-five years ago this month, then-Gov. Hugh L. Carey and the state Legislature passed a landmark law, the Financial Emergency Act, designed to rescue Gotham from imminent bankruptcy. The law created the state Financial Control Board as

In recent weeks, and despite repeated statements of support, operatives of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have been quietly soliciting smears against Governor General Julie Payette, Canada’s Vice Regal and the Queen’s appointed representative to Parliament, a source inside the Prime

Seneca Nation Treasurer Matthew Pagels narrowly won the Seneca Party caucus nomination for President. Pagels was nearly defeated by John “Joonie” Williams, in a vote of 733 to 700. The offices of President and Treasurer rotate between the Nation’s Cattaraugus

Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska have been privately suggesting to colleagues that they would support a confirmation vote for President Donald J. Trump‘s Supreme Court nominee if he selects a “John McCain Republican“. The

Tribal governments and Native American businessmen are urging President Donald J. Trump to move the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) from the Department of the Interior (DOI) to the Department of State (DOS), and name Tara Sweeney — currently the

Residents of Marine Drive Apartments — Buffalo’s largest public housing complex — prefer that Carl Paladino‘s Ellicott Development was their landlord, rather than the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority (BMHA), at a rate of more than 2 to 1, privately conducted

WASHINGTON, DC — Judicial Watch announced today it received 87 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that show senior members of Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office (SCO) repeatedly and “accidentally” wiped phones assigned to them.   The records were produced in

Buffalo Police officer Karl Schultz shot Willie Henley, a 60 year old homeless man, on Saturday afternoon on Genesee Street just blocks from downtown. Henley was shot in the abdomen and is in stable condition at Erie County Medical Center.

BY IAN KINGSBURY Education Week released its A-F grades for states on school quality last week. New York earned a B-, appreciably better than the nationwide C average. A closer look at scoring methodology, however, shows grade inflation at work. Education Week raised New

BY KEN GIRARDIN New York’s largest teachers union this summer threatened to go on strike rather than allow schools to reopen for in-person classes—despite months of preparation by officials and a state law that prohibits union work stoppages. Public employee

BY E.J. McMAHON For the better part of three years now, Governor Andrew Cuomo has been pounding SALT — the federal income-tax deduction for state and local taxes. After President Donald Trump signed the GOP-sponsored tax-reform bill in December 2017,

BY KEN GIRARDIN Months of bad decisions and inaction by New York state officials have put school districts in the awkward position of having to give pay raises to most teachers while laying off others. The districts could have avoided

BY IAN KINGSBURY Governor Andrew Cuomo is withholding 20 percent of state school aid allocations pending federal bailout negotiations. The decision has been met with alarm and objection from district leaders and New York teachers unions. Yet notably absent from pleas to maintain funding

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it received 47 pages of documents from the Department of Justice which includes a May 17, 2017, email documenting that Robert Mueller informed the Attorney General’s office he was withdrawing from consideration for director of

WASHINGTON, DC — Judicial Watch announced today that it has filed its opening brief in its lawsuit for access to former Vice President Joe Biden’s Senate records at the University of Delaware. The new court filing comes in Judicial Watch and the Daily