The $1.8 billion that schools don’t get

With help from Shawn Ness Sen. Sean Riley (D-Buffalo) advocates for legislation that would prohibit IDAs from abating tax revenues that would otherwise go to schools on Jan. 31, 2024. | Katelyn Cordero/POLITICO Education leaders and advocates are backing new legislation that they say could bring more than $1.8 billion in tax dollars back to

Two-way deals at the state Capitol?

With help from Shawn Ness The State Senate was scheduled to pass a bill that would allow the state to contract for its own prescription drugs. Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins made it clear the bill would help working- and middle-class people. | Photo courtesy of NYS Senate Media Services The state Senate was poised

Nikki Haley: ‘Take out’ foreign leaders behind drone strike in Jordan

Iran has denied it was behind the deadly drone strike. Haley’s campaign told POLITICO she was talking about leadership of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a branch of the armed forces charged with safeguarding the Islamic republic — and designated by the State Department as a foreign terrorist organization. Haley brushed aside concerns that could

Haley targeted in December swatting incident

A man claimed to have shot a woman and threatened to harm himself at Nikki Haley’s home in Kiawah Island, South Carolina, on Dec. 30, 2023. | Charles Krupa/AP GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley was targeted in a swatting incident last month, according to media reports Saturday. Authorities responded to a false emergency call on

More woes for Cuomo

A Department of Justice investigation concluded that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo subjected at least 13 women to sexual harassment. | Seth Wenig/AP Photo Thirteen women who worked for state government were sexually harassed by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the course of an eight-year period, a civil rights settlement announced today by the Department of