New York state to invest in $10B chip research complex
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New York state to invest in $10B chip research complex

ByNews Polite

New York state is joining tech giant IBM and semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology to invest $10 billion in a state-of-the-art chip research facility at the University of Albany, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced. NY Creates, a nonprofit entity that oversees The Albany NanoTech Complex where the 50,000-square-foot facility will be built,…

Is Hochul’s high court move a compromise — or a sellout?
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Is Hochul’s high court move a compromise — or a sellout?

ByNews Polite

Hmm: Gov. Kathy Hochul evidently hopes to sidestep the hard left’s drive to control New York’s top court with a compromise. Or maybe it’s a sellout. To recap: The state Senate’s lefty leadership orchestrated a humiliating rejection of her first nominee for state chief judge, Hector LaSalle — first stacking…

Democratic state Sen. Jeremy Cooney reverses bail stance after lefty criticism
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Democratic state Sen. Jeremy Cooney reverses bail stance after lefty criticism

ByNews Polite

Not exactly a profile in courage … State Sen. Jeremy Cooney (D-Rochester) caved to pressure from the political left late Tuesday night — just hours after Gov. Kathy Hochul sang his praises for being “courageous” enough to back a key change to bail reform. “Our state law allows for those…

NYC brought itself back to life once before — but can it again?
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NYC brought itself back to life once before — but can it again?

ByNews Polite

Ideas matter, policies matter, leadership is essential.  That could be a list of bromides, but those ingredients actually produced one of the great examples of urban renewal in American history. Now there is a film that tells the whole story in compelling detail.  “Gotham: The Fall and Rise of New…

Gov. Hochul’s security detail under investigation
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Gov. Hochul’s security detail under investigation

ByNews Polite

State Police investigators are probing whether troopers in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s security detail have been cheating taxpayers by claiming they’re on the clock when they’re actually blowing off their shifts, The Post has learned. The probe is focused on members of the governor’s detail stationed in New York City — and…

Hochul’s ‘moderate’ budget plan still leaves New York on a path to fiscal doomsday
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Hochul’s ‘moderate’ budget plan still leaves New York on a path to fiscal doomsday

ByNews Polite

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s new budget plan includes a record $227 billion in spending, plus at least $1.6 billion in tax hikes. The left wants a lot more, but that hardly makes her a fiscal conservative. She’d increase taxes on payrolls in the 12-county “MTA region” by $810 million and extend…