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Blakeman is determined to deliver a Major League sports franchise for Rochester, and it’s most likely soccer
Rochester has been a major league city before. It has not been one in a long time, and the distance between those two facts is the whole argument. Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau…
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Blakeman’s plan to save Syracuse University would adopt Cornell’s governance model
BY STAFF REPORTER Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s soon to be announced plan to save Syracuse University from closure does not ask the state to buy the campus, fold it into SUNY,…
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RACISM: Liberals say DC’s oldest gay bar has been shamelessly exploiting Roberta Flack’s legacy
By Staff Reporter March 26, 2026 In the heart of Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Hill, Mr. Henry’s—billed as the city’s oldest gay bar and a “historic gem” since 1966—has built its entire modern…
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Five questions for Virginia Postrel on dynamism, glamour, and technological change
By James Pethokoukis and Virginia Postrel While we often describe American politics with the terms “left” and “right,” another key divide is dynamism versus stasis. Dynamists, argued Virginia Postrel in her 1998…
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Hochul plans to task NYPA with new energy projects, including reengineering the Erie Canal
(December 23, 2021) — Governor Kathy Hochul is preparing to task the New York Power Authority (NYPA) with the construction of several major clean energy production projects in an effort to accelerate…
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Jamie Beard discusses the potential of geothermal energy
By James Pethokoukis and Jamie Beard Is the future of clean energy right beneath our feet? By tapping into the infrastructure and expertise of the oil and gas industry, geothermal energy could…
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SolarWinds (Russia), Microsoft (China): Time for escalation, or are cyber norms possible?
By Claude Barfield As readers of this blog know, I am a follower of the Jack Goldsmith school of thought regarding the strong yet perilous US position when it comes to cyber conflict over…
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Defining the market in the Epic Games v. Apple trial
By Daniel Lyons Early in Epic Games’ antitrust suit against Apple, presiding Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers billed the dispute as a case at the “frontier edges of antitrust law.” But the trial began not…
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Quantum computing: A national security primer
BY KLON KITCHEN Quantum computing is a rapidly advancing field of computer science that harnesses the mind-bending dynamics of quantum physics—the behavior of the universe’s smallest particles—to produce computers with vast new…
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Should Europe really be leading the world on tech policy?
BY SHANE TEWS As the Joe Biden digital economy team takes shape, the European Union’s (EU) proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA) loom large. The proposals —…
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What happens when the EU and Biden redesign Big Tech?
BY MARK JAMISON Some politicians, academics, and regulatory practitioners are increasingly confident that there is something wrong with the structure of Big Tech. They are equally confident that smart regulators can remold…
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Don’t call them data caps: A deep dive on usage-based broadband pricing
BY DANIEL LYONS Last week, Comcast announced plans to expand its existing usage-based broadband pricing model to northeastern markets, prompting a fresh wave of criticism by some long-time opponents of the practice. But setting aside…
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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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Supreme Court ingests Java as Google-Oracle copyright spat boils over
BY MICHEAL ROSEN Last week, the long-simmering software dispute between Google and Oracle boiled over, as the Supreme Court heard arguments in the tech giants’ copyright fight. The story began in federal court in San Francisco…
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Payroll tax deferral could be more complicated than it sounds
BY ALAN D. VIARD On Saturday, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum directing the Treasury Department to allow employers to defer their employees’ Social Security payroll taxes. The administration claims legal authority to take…
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Most of Facebook censorship board has ties to leftwing billionaire George Soros
The recently appointed Facebook oversight board that will decide which posts get blocked from the world’s most popular social networking website is stacked with leftists, including a close friend of leftwing billionaire George Soros…
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Bob Rich urged to launch a new Buffalo-based ‘brand-building unit’
Billionaire Bob Rich, the owner of the privately held Rich Products Corporation is being urged to launch a new Buffalo-based marketing unit focused on ‘brand-building’ across the multi-national firm’s product channels. Many…
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Cuomo tasks Hochul to ‘think big’ in Niagara’s economic recovery — but will she deliver?
In recent weeks Governor Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly said that the economy is unlikely to “just bounce back” from the COVID-19 pandemic shut down. He has been arguing that the government will…
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Nature always wins
BY NORBERT RUG I’ve always said that there are too many humans on earth and that no matter what we humans do or what we build, nature always wins. I see more…
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Hoarding toilet paper
BY NORBERT RUG I find it amazing the way some people behave when it comes to hoarding. Let a blizzard approach or other disaster hit and we descend on stores, like the…
