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Congress still needs to respond further to the COVID recession
BY STAN VEUGER AND JEFFREY CLEMENS Friday’s data on the October employment situation provides a sobering reminder of the ongoing need for sound economic policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Labor…
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Do Democrats have an s-word problem?
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS If President Trump wanted the Cuban community in Florida to worry that the Biden Democrats were soft on socialism, it seems to have worked. Cuban-Americans helped the president defy…
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Fewer workers, not more jobs, explains New York’s September unemployment rate drop
BY E.J. McMAHON New York State’s unemployment rate has fallen sharply since the economically devastating pandemic lockdown last spring. But as state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli points out in his latest economic report,…
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With hopes dashed for “Blue Wave” bailout, Cuomo needs to deal with budget shortfall
BY E.J. McMAHON With the national election results still unclear, Governor Cuomo can no longer put off tough decisions on how to balance New York’s pandemic-ravaged state budget. Believing most national polls,…
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DiNapoli predicts $3.8 billion more in State tax receipts
BY E.J. McMAHON New York State’s tax receipts in the current fiscal year will exceed Governor Cuomo’s latest projections by $3.8 billion—still down from last year, but a big improvement over the…
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Biden may use Defense Production Act in $6.3 trillion solar roof plan prescribed by Green New Deal
Progressive activists have been insisting that the presumptive President-elect Joe Biden commits to using the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of solar roofing systems and to publicly guarantee that every…
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Bloomberg, Warren jockey to be named Treasury Secretary
The presumptive President-elect Joe Biden has already fielded phone calls from both former Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Senator Elizabeth Warren. Each politician made themselves available to serve as Treasury Secretary in the…
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Unemployment rate keeps falling faster than projected
BY MATT WEIDINGER According to today’s jobs report from the US Department of Labor, the US unemployment rate in October fell to 6.9 percent, down from 7.9 percent in September. As the…
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Smaller-scale nuclear could be a big part of the national energy mix
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS What would the world look like today if it were nuclear-powered? That is the intriguing “what if” scenario explored by The Economist last summer. From the piece: In 1985…
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Mitt Romney has been asked to lead Health and Human Services in Biden administration
Sources are telling The Chronicle that Senator Mitt Romney has been asked by the presumptive President-elect Joe Biden to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. He is currently discussing the…
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Biden promises to appoint “at least one” Native American to the cabinet
In a pledge to construct the most diverse administration in American history, the presumptuous President-elect Joe Biden is promising to nominate at least one Native American to his cabinet and to include…
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Schumer to include Upstate New York and Puerto Rico in statehood legislation
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is enduring criticism inside his caucus for a string of election losses under his leadership, is unlikely to gain a majority in the chamber this year.…
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Higgins will ask Republicans to support him in bid for Speakership
Rep. Brian Higgins is planning to run for Speaker of the House of Representatives, challenging Nancy Pelosi‘s grasp of the party at a time when severe election losses leave her weak and…
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Biden taps Cuomo to serve as Secretary of State, as Hochul plans a gubernatorial transition
Sources close to former Vice President Joe Biden are telling The Chronicle that he has tapped Governor Andrew Cuomo to serve as Secretary of State in his administration. We are told Cuomo…
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Whistleblower suspects Philadelphia political operatives have been manufacturing ballots
A longtime election worker in Philadelphia is telling The Chronicle that three political operatives with close ties to Election Commissioner Omar Sabir have been given special access to sections of the Philadelphia…
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Brown wants to sell police station at key Theater District intersection
A source inside the administration of Byron W. Brown is telling The Chronicle that — if federal stimulus funding for state and municipal governments isn’t made available before the end of the…
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Trump pledges to legalize marijuana on Indian reservations
President Donald J. Trump is promising that, upon being reelected, he will issue an Executive Order that prohibits federal police agencies — including the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), Alcohol Tobacco &…
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Facebook censorship board is comprised mostly of foreign nationals with ties to George Soros
The recently appointed Facebook oversight board tasked with deciding which posts get blocked from the world’s most popular social networking website is stacked with leftists and foreign nationals who will be functionally regulating the…
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New studio facility will bring more Hollywood to Buffalo
With Buffalo’s film industry potential on the rise, a new project to develop a 27-acre parcel into world-class studio facilities is headed to the city. Buffalo Studios CEO, founder and Grand Island…
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Mayor Brown signs Cariol’s Law — Buffalo police officers now have ‘Duty to Intervene’
After weeks of allowing the bill to sit on his desk following the Common Council’s ratification of the City of Buffalo’s new Duty to Intervene law — known widely as Cariol’s Law…
