New York Is Trying To Punish Its Way to 100% Vaccine Compliance
15 out of 16 adult New Yorkers have gotten the jab, but that's not enough to keep government from fining businesses and excluding kids.
15 out of 16 adult New Yorkers have gotten the jab, but that's not enough to keep government from fining businesses and excluding kids.
Requiring kids as young as 5 to either get vaccinated or stay home is not as smart or as necessary as de Blasio claims.
Instead of impoverishing the world, we have to learn to live with COVID-19.
The Supreme Court should reject a law that bars ordinary people from carrying guns for self-defense.
In Buffalo, incumbent Byron Brown staged a successful write-in campaign against DSA-backed candidate India Walton. Elsewhere in the country, DSA candidates won their local races.
Several groups urging the Supreme Court to overturn New York’s virtual ban on bearing arms emphasize the policy’s racist roots and racially disproportionate impact.
Higher cigarette taxes will fuel greater black-market activity and more confrontations with the police.
A Supreme Court decision against New York's gun control scheme would be a victory for both criminal justice reform and the Second Amendment.
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The vaccine mandate on health care workers, ahead of the broader mandate on the rest of us, is putting America in uncharted territory.
One at Rikers, one at a nearby jail barge, marking 12 deaths this year
Formal sentences cover for informal penalties including crowding, poor sanitation, beatings, and rape.
The men of Attica said they had "set forth to change forever the ruthless brutalization" of U.S. prisoners. For all the horror and bloodshed, not much has changed.
Business owners in the Bronx respond to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine passport mandate.
Hochul’s office reports that some 55,400 people have died of the coronavirus in New York, much higher than the 43,400 claimed by Cuomo, who left office Monday.
Andrew Cuomo was a very bad governor. His ability to convince people otherwise during his pandemic press briefings is surely a performance deserving of an Emmy.
Federal environmental laws and restrictions on tolling are adding years to the rollout of New York’s congestion pricing program.
Going out in Manhattan the first night patrons were required to prove their vaccination status
Setting aside the harassment claims and the nursing home debacle, the Cuomo administration’s inability to run a minimally functional rent relief program should forever end his reputation as a competent executive.
Mandates, instead of incentives, were always going to drive people away.
After allegedly sexually harassing 11 women and issuing nursing home COVID guidance that led to massive outbreaks and huge death tolls, Cuomo is out.
Two rotten politicians demonstrate the sickness of America’s political culture.
De Blasio's dataless call to create a class of citizens barred from civic life is an intolerable imposition on New Yorkers' liberties.
Yet under qualified immunity, it's incredibly difficult for the public to sue police.
"There should be a zero tolerance policy when it comes to sexual harassment," Cuomo tweeted in 2013.
At a time when the student COVID positivity rate in NYC is 0.01%, the governor is spreading fear that school buildings are death traps.
Much of what government does is tax people to try to fix problems that government caused.
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Eric Adams insists on a double standard that lets former cops like him escape the firearm restrictions everyone else has to follow.
New York's new law seems to conflict with a federal statute that protects manufacturers and dealers from liability for gun crimes.
It's likely that soon, almost all Americans will be legally able to carry guns.
The suspension is based on "demonstrably false and misleading statements" that Giuliani made as Donald Trump's lawyer.
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Theatrical safety checks don't keep people safe—vaccines do.
Special interests are trying to stuff newfound alcohol freedom back in the bottle as the pandemic ends.
If hosting a religious service or a performance that includes food service, theaters can open to 50 percent capacity. But plays and other performances are still capped at 33 percent.
The flawed documents seem destined to be part of life long after the reason for their existence is gone.
Shocker: When you keep schools closed, lie about them being death mills, then call opening advocates white supremacists, parents may not be in a hurry to send their kids back to part-time Zoom-in-a-room.
Government officials who wield land grabs to pick economic winners and losers now want to use them to kill disfavored businesses.
Citizens should be able to punish elected officials who have done an extraordinarily bad job rather than be forced to count on elected legislators to do the heavy lifting.
A Messina, New York, police officer is under investigation after video showed him intentionally slamming a door into a car several times.
Two governors defined by their differing approaches to COVID-19 are both moving in the same direction.
New York, like several other states, limits public carrying of handguns to the favored few.