Where’s Kathy?

With help from Shawn Ness THEY DON’T HAVE THE VOTES: Gov. Kathy Hochul is still MIA since her last-minute decision to suspend congestion pricing Wednesday morning via video message. And a legislative leader’s transatlantic vacation threatens to ensure New Yorkers are left without a solution to the $1 billion hole for the country’s largest transit

Connecticut Governor Forms Working Group to Explore Ranked Voting

State lawmakers will consider implementing the election method during the 2025 legislative session. Connecticut’s Democrat Gov. Ned Lamont tasked a working group with developing a legislative proposal to allow ranked-choice voting in caucuses, conventions, primaries, and certain municipal elections. Connecticut law does not currently permit ranked-choice voting, which allows voters to rank candidates by order

Lawmakers Urge DHS to Blacklist Major Chinese Battery Companies

Five Republican lawmakers are calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to immediately blacklist two leading Chinese battery companies, on the basis that their supply chains are “deeply compromised” by the communist regime’s state-sponsored slave labor and Uyghur genocide. Led by Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist