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Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand were among those rushing to fill the political void created on Capitol Hill after President Donald Trump told Democrats he agreed with much of their gun-control agenda. At a news conference, Schumer laid out a three-point...

President Trump on Wednesday voiced support for confiscating guns from certain individuals deemed to be dangerous, even if it violates due process rights. “I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida ... to go to court would have taken a long...

Democrats in the state Senate, fed up with gun-control bills going nowhere in the GOP-controlled chamber, are secretly planning to force their Republican colleagues into voting on the issue today — by introducing the stalled proposals as hostile amendments In the wake of the Florida school...

A man armed with an AR-15 rifle stopped an attack by one of his neighbors and held him until police arrived. It happened Monday at an apartment building on Harbor Drive in Oswego Township. Police say it all began when someone with a knife attacked another person during an argument. Neighbor...

The good guy with the gun got shot. Another mass shooting set within sacred confines nearly could've taken place on the same day as the massacre in Parkland, Fla., were it not for one man joining with a group of congregants to take down the gunman. Unfortunately for Tony Garces, he still got...

Democrats mulling how to approach gun control on the campaign trail this year are weighing their tough history on the subject against the burning politics of the moment. The killings of 17 people at a Florida high school has led to an outpouring of student protests and new energy for the gun...

The governors of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island are forming a coalition of like-minded states on gun control, hoping to make progress where they see the federal government has faltered. The four Democrats announced the formation of "States for Gun Safety" on Thursday, about...

New York Senate Republicans face new pressure to back a bill that would let judges confiscate weapons from dangerous individuals after several Democrats who share power with the GOP signed on as co-sponsors. The so-called “red flag” law would let guns be seized from people deemed dangerous by...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer signaled Democrats will renew a fight to expand background checks for gun purchasers following last week’s mass shooting that killed 17 people at a Florida high school. "Our No. 1 priority is going to be universal background checks," Schumer of New York...

Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. insinuated Wednesday that student survivors of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting were being manipulated by Democratic billionaire George Soros to organize for gun control. In a tweet, the former Wisconsin sheriff wrote that media appearances...

As many as 250 workers could lose their jobs at Dresser-Rand Corp.'s plant in Wellsville within two years, after its German parent company agreed to sell one business to Curtiss-Wright Corp. and shift its remaining functions there to North Carolina. The loss of the plant is a major blow to the...

A war was lost before it ever could begin, according to local historians who were hoping to fire up a mock battle. The Elk Grove Historical Society planned a Revolutionary War reenactment for more than a year and has had similar events in the past, but it’s now forced to cancel the event...

He has some valid points. LONSBERRY: GOP And DEMS Both Wrong About Shootings | Bob Lonsberry | NewsRadio WHAM 1180

Republicans Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Rep. Carlos Curbelo, and Sen. James Lankford all voiced their support for gun legislation on the Sunday morning talk show circuit. Even conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh came out in favor of some gun regulation. Ohio Gov. John Kasich came out swinging on...

New York state ranked highest in government debt for residents in 2015, the latest data available. The debt per person was $17,528 in New York state, according to the Empire Center. The center is a non-partisan, non-profit think tank based in Albany that calls for policy reforms based on...

Sandy Hook Part 2.

More people are carrying guns than ever before, but the crime rate remains relatively low. WCCO’s Pat Kessler is looking at the numbers, and giving them a Reality Check. We took a hard look at the numbers, and found: Minnesota has a high rate of gun ownership, and a relatively low rate of...

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Good read. Media ignoring 1 crucial factor in Florida school shooting Here we go again. A horrific mass shooting occurs. Everyone is in shock and grief. Democrats blame guns and Republicans. Pundits urge the public, “If you see something, say something.” And everyone asks, “Why?” As...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's favorability rating, after reaching its highest point of his second term in early January, took a considerable dip this month. According to the latest poll conducted by the Siena College Research Institute and released early Monday, Cuomo's favorability rating fell from 62...

Worried about federal immigration policies, a New York labor organization is taking steps to protect its own. Across Long Island and throughout the city, some 120,000 Teamsters are getting prepped to become a “sanctuary union.” In 27 shops, business agents, supervisors and front-line workers...

The company that bills itself as the largest sauerkraut manufacturer in the world will close its factory in Shortsville, New York. GLK Foods, which processes a total of 130,000 tons of cabbage a year, announced that is consolidating its sauerkraut production to its plant in Bear Creek...

Calling gun violence a “national epidemic,” state Senate Democrats Tuesday unveiled a package of gun control bills. The nine-bill package would ban bump stock devices that increase rate of fire like the one used in the Las Vegas mass shooting. It would also establish extreme risk orders of...

New Yorkers can be forgiven for thinking Gov. Cuomo and his fellow progressives want them to leave the state. After all, DC’s tax reforms will make New York’s nation-high tax burden sting all the more. But Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio and assorted pro-union and progressive groups are pushing to raise...

And five years from now they will be back in the same boat. The smart way would have been to implement it over over five years based on the first letter in your name buy dividing the alphabet by five. But then FUAC said they spent more time on writing the unSAFE Act then the New Yorkistan budget.

The Republican leader of the New York Senate joked Monday that he’s willing to take flak to get Gov. Andrew Cuomo a new government plane because the current one is way past its prime and he’s got to fly on it. Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, during an unrelated press conference at the...

Gov. Cuomo wants to give another break to immigrant Dreamers by extending free public college tuition to students who were brought into to the United States illegally as kids. Cuomo tucked a provision in his $168 billion budget plan that would amend state education law to make the undocumented...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that New York State would use its share of Medicaid money to insure DACA recipients if the federal government terminates the program. The Deferred Action Childhood Arrival program granted legal status to some 42,000 New York residents, allowing them to...

N.Y. gun violence costs state economy $5.6B a year: study Gun violence in New York not only carries a social cost, but a hefty economic one as well, a new analysis shows. Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a group founded by former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, looked at gun...

California will take the next step in blurring the lines between citizens and non-citizens beginning April Fool’s Day when the state complies with a court order to begin automatically registering to vote all those who are granted driver’s licenses. The state has long provided driver’s licenses...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra warned employers Thursday of legal repercussions if they assist federal immigration officials in an impending crackdown in the sanctuary state, The Sacramento Bee reported. Under a new state law – the Immigration Worker Protection Act – employers and...

New York Republican State Committee Chairman Edward F. Cox claimed the unemployment rate is rising in upstate counties, something Republicans intend to remind voters about in the 2018 race for governor. "Of all the 62 counties in New York state, all of them, unemployment is going up except for...

Governor Cuomo’s budget proposal includes more than $1.5 billion in automatic state personal income tax hikes, affecting many of the same people who have the most to lose from the new federal limits on state and local tax (SALT) deductions. As first noted here yesterday, the 2018-19 Executive...

Facing a multibillion-dollar gap in state finances, Governor Cuomo has turned to one of Albany’s favorite piggy banks: the health care industry. Out of $1 billion in “revenue actions” proposed by Cuomo on Tuesday, $750 million would be extracted from health insurers and drug manufacturers and...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's bid to avoid a retrial on corruption charges after his 2015 conviction was thrown out by a lower court. Silver, a Democrat, had appealed a July 2017 lower court ruling that set aside his conviction...

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen confirmed Tuesday that her department has asked federal prosecutors to see if they can lodge criminal charges against sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with federal deportation efforts. “The Department of Justice is reviewing what avenues may...

Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country? Not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia, but California, where nearly one out of five residents is poor. That’s according to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, which factors in the cost of housing, food...

State and county law enforcement say they do not plan to pursue criminal charges against pistol permit holders who fail to recertify their permits by Jan. 31. In recent months, state and county officials have raised concern that failing to extend the recertification deadline would turn...

In Edward Garrett's eyes, the time, energy and money it took for him to get a pistol permit, were reasons enough to challenge the state law. The former chairman of the Erie County Libertarian Party got his answer this week: the 106-year old law stands. A federal judge dismissed the...

You know New York’s future is grim when even Republicans refuse to push for meaningful relief for overwhelmed state taxpayers, even as federal reforms ratchet up the state’s tax bite. On Tuesday, Senate Republicans — New York’s main hope for reining in tax-and-spend progressives — rolled out...

A New York state assemblywoman from Brooklyn who claims to be an advocate for Sandy victims has been accused of bilking FEMA and New York City's's Build it Back fund out of thousands of dollars following the monster 2012 storm. Rep. Pamela Harris, a former New York City correction officer, was...

Talking about double taxation he should look at how the NYS sales tax is figured. Take gasoline the sales tax is computed on the total price of gas which includes the Federal gas tax & state gas tax. It's the same on tobacco products. Sales tax computed on the total price which includes all...

Erie County Clerk Michael Kearns is urging Albany to push back a deadline to renew tens of thousands of gun permits, as required by New York State's SAFE Act. Under the SAFE Act, permits five years and older must be renewed by January 31, 2018. Kearns is among those concerned that thousands...

Redneck Revolt is a national activist organisation that advocates for the downfall of capitalism through the elimination of racism. Its founders believe strongly that working-class liberation can only occur when workers unite, regardless of race. So in 38 different locations around the country...

New York over the past year continued to lose more residents to other states than it gained — even as the overall population grew slightly thanks to a continued influx of immigrants, Census data shows. During the 12-month period ending July 1, the state lost a net 190,508 residents to other...

It's likely that New York will lose one of its 27 congressional seats in the 2022 reapportionment because its small growth in population hasn't kept pace with the nation as a whole. According to Census Bureau estimates released Wednesday, New York’s population was 19.85 million as of July 1...

As far as I known it has never been amended. FUAC most likely wants to appeal the courts ruling rather then change the law.

County clerks across the state are seeking an emergency meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other leaders about a Jan. 31 deadline for re-certifying handgun licenses under the 2013 SAFE Act gun control law. County clerks, who keep track of handgun licenses in their individual counties, say they...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D.) brushed off a reporter's question about sexual harassment in state government, accusing her of doing a "disservice to women." During a Wednesday press conference, NYS Public Radio's Karen DeWitt asked the Democrat about former aide Sam Hoyt, who resigned in...