Tag: New York

New York City’s Vaccine Passports, School Mask Mandate Ending Monday: Mayor

New York City Mayor Eric Adams Friday announced that the city’s vaccine passport system and school mask mandates will expire on Monday, March 7. The mayor’s decision comes as a number of other Democrat-led cities, municipalities, and states have dropped COVID-19-related rules in recent weeks. They have cited a drop in the number of COVID-19…


New York Education Department Promotes Sexually Explicit Book for National Reading Event

The New York State Education Department (NYSED) promoted on social media a graphic novel that contains illustrations of teenage boys performing oral sex, only to remove the post and claim to be unaware of the book’s explicit sexual contents. In a series of posts on Tuesday, the NYSED celebrated this year’s “Read Across America,” a…


Nassau County Executive Blakeman Organising Guns to Send to Ukraine

FRANKLIN SQUARE, New York—Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman kicked off his guns-for-Ukraine donation initiative at SP Firearms in Franklin Square, New York, on March 3. The plan will go through to March 7 and owners of legal weapons may donate them at the gun store. Only long firearms (rifles, shotguns, AR-15s, or a derivative of…


Nassau County Executive Blakeman Organizing Guns to Send to Ukraine

FRANKLIN SQUARE, New York—Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman kicked off his guns-for-Ukraine donation initiative at SP Firearms in Franklin Square, New York, on March 3. The plan will go through to March 7 and owners of legal weapons may donate them at the gun store. Only long firearms (rifles, shotguns, AR-15s, or a derivative of…


Judge Blocks New York Attorney General’s Attempt to Dissolve NRA

A judge on March 2 dismissed an attempt by New York Attorney General Letitia James to dissolve the National Rifle Association (NRA). New York Supreme Court Justice Joel Cohen said the allegations against the NRA did not meet the requirements to order its dissolution. James, a Democrat, has claimed that top NRA executives siphoned millions of…


The Big Apple’s Finances Are Rancid, Accounting Group Contends

The New York City government, says financial watchdog Truth in Accounting (TIA), is a money mess. Its finances are the most troubled in America, TIA charges, although other cities also have problems. New York’s books, TIA claims, aren’t balanced as required by law. That’s because it doesn’t currently count all its bills, it says. For…


Coffee Traders Seeking Advance Payment in New Deals With Russia

NEW YORK—Coffee traders are seeking advance payment in any new deal to sell beans to Russia as Western sanctions hit the financial system of the world’s sixth largest importer. Traders in Brazil, the world’s largest exporter and number 1 supplier to Russia, said they have added the country to a list of risky and sanctioned…


NYS Republicans Nominate Zeldin and Esposito for Gubernatorial Ticket

GARDEN CITY, New York—The New York state Republican Party nominated Congressman Lee Zeldin for governor and Alison Esposito for lieutenant governor on March 1, the second day of its two-day convention at the Garden City Hotel on Long Island. Zeldin was the first nominee to address the issue of the 4,000 employees of the City…


Ned Eisenberg, ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Star, Dies at 65

Ned Eisenberg, an American actor best known for his long-running recurring role on “Law & Order: SVU,” died at his home in New York on Feb. 27, a family member has said. He was 65. Eisenberg had been fighting two types of cancer over the past two years, Patricia Dunnock, the actor’s wife, said in…


Trump Asks Appeals Court to Block Order to Testify in Probe

Former President Donald Trump on Feb. 28 appealed an order that he and two of his children testify in a probe being conducted by New York’s attorney general. Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump through lawyers asked the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court to overturn the order, which was handed down…