With NYC red ink worse than advertised, why’s Eric Adams nixing cuts?
Opinion editorial By Post Editorial Board Published March 3, 2024, 7:49 p.m. ET Mayor Eric Adams’ supposedly balanced $109.4 billion plan for Fiscal 2025, which begins July 1, is $3.6 billion shy of what’s needed for current services, the CBC reports. G.N.Miller Mayor Adams is playing hero again, canceling a round of spending cuts set […]
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Opinion | Alabama might avert an IVF disaster, but the antiabortion activists won’t stop there | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
That didn’t take long. On Feb. 16, Alabama’s state Supreme Court ruled, 8-1, that frozen embryos are children, entitled to protection under an 1872 state law that allows parents to sue over the wrongful death of a minor child. Within a week, members of the state’s Republican-majority legislature and the GOP governor were promising to […]
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Gov. Hochul must help Mayor Eric Adams renew mayoral control of NYC public schools
Opinion editorial By Post Editorial Board Published Jan. 7, 2024, 7:26 p.m. ET Mayoral control of New York City public schools is on the cusp of extinction: If the Legislature weakens it any more this year, the United Federation of Teachers will effectively be calling the shots. The UFT is already all too close, having […]
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No, Mr. Mayor, NYC hasn’t ‘turned a corner’ on crime
Opinion editorial By Post Editorial Board Published Jan. 6, 2024, 8:03 a.m. ET Mayor Eric Adams declared that “crime is down” in NYC as car thefts surged a staggering staggering 191% compared to pre-COVID, according to NYPD data. AP Overall crime in New York City dropped in 2023 over 2022; we’re still the “safest big […]
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Fight like hell, Mayor Adams
Opinion editorial By Post Editorial Board Published Dec. 25, 2023, 10:07 a.m. ET Speaker Adrienne Adams poked Mayor Adams in the eye last week, passing Public Advocate Jumaane Williams’ bills to ban solitary confinement and bury cops under massive amounts of unnecessary paperwork. Matthew McDermott Speaker Adrienne Adams and the City Council poked Mayor Adams […]
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Don’t hike property taxes — cut needless spending, Mr. Mayor
Opinion editorial By Post Editorial Board Published Dec. 18, 2023, 7:09 p.m. ET Mayor Eric Adams granted a round of municipal union pay hikes without winning much of anything in productivity increases. REUTERS/David Dee Delgado Since the Biden administration has told City Hall “drop dead,” Mayor Adams is talking of hiking property and other taxes […]
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New mayor, mayor pro tem in Marquette are top choices | News, Sports, Jobs
The Marquette City Commission earlier this week was spot on in terms of who they selected as the new mayor and mayor pro tem. The panel unanimously chose Commissioner Sally Davis to succeed Cody Mayer as Marquette mayor during a Monday meeting. Then, commissioners chose, also unanimously, Commissioner Jessica Hanley to serve […]
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Matson is endorsed for Davenport mayor
At 4:55 p.m. May 28, the west wall of the six-story apartment building known as The Davenport collapsed, killing three people, forcing an amputation of another and destroying the homes and belongings of dozens of people. Ken Croken, left, and Mike Matson, right, are running for Mayor of Davenport. The city/school election is Nov. 7. […]
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Conservativism or populism? Republicans have to choose | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
By Lynn Schmidt There is a fight, albeit weak one, taking place within the Republican Party between conservatism and populism. That dividing line between the two ideologies may be drawn around our national defense. Recently former Vice President Mike Pence, a candidate for the GOP nomination, gave a speech at the New Hampshire Institute of […]
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Candidate for CV City Council Misleads as ‘Legal Professional’ | #citycouncil
By Arturo CastañaresEditor-at-Large A candidate for the Chula Vista City Council refers to herself as a legal professional and to her legal practice even though she is not a licensed attorney, becoming the second recent candidate to embellish their background in hopes of gaining a political advantage in the county’s second-largest city. Leticia Munguia claims […]
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