Whether or not the housing deal in the state budget will work won't be known for years. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams are hailing the housing deal as transformative. Housing experts are urging caution. [ more › ]
The Butterly family presided over a wide network of businesses in its heyday – but many shut or went into receivership during the financial crisis.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has laid it all on the table: He’s staking his speakership—and his cozy relationship with Donald Trump—on aid to Ukraine, and putting his fate in the hands of Democrats. Democrats, in turn, are not going to make it easy for him. In an impassioned speech Wednesday, Johnson argued that getting aid to Ukraine was paramount, even if putting that bill on the floor will likely trigger a move to oust him. “This is a critical time right now, a critical time on the...
The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, fixed May 20 to decide on separate applications praying for the restoration of the bail granted to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The court, on the said date, will also consider the application that the IPOB leader be transferred to another facility Read More
State lawmakers reached a “conceptual” agreement on the 2025 budget on Monday, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul, who hosted a celebratory press conference touting the deal. Since the bills have not been printed yet, details remain scarce. However, according to the governor, the $237 billion budget, now over two weeks late, includes “landmark” policies to [] The post Hochul announces budget agreement, with ‘landmark’ housing deal first appeared on 6sqft.
After struggling through grief and loss with no one to talk to, it’s bittersweet comfort for Kaitlyn Dyer to know that no one else must endure the same. Julien’s House, a charity providing grief support, celebrated the formal ribbon cutting Friday for the Nick Dyer Clubhouse in Windsor. The clubhouse on Baseline Road is […]
The terse words between two media-savvy Democrats — AOC and Jared Moskowitz of Florida — expose a larger divide among Democrats
A Sedgwick County district judge has denied a motion for a new sentencing hearing for two brothers convicted in the murders of five people in Wichita. Jonathan Carr appeared in court Monday morning, while his brother Reginald
A woman whose son works for a House Democrat told the court that it would not affect her ability to serve as a juror on the Trump hush money case and be fair and impartial.
US CAPITOL (ANDREW BERNARD / JNS) Columbia University’s president, its two board co-chairs and a co-chair of its antisemitism taskforce testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Wednesday about Jew-hatred on campus since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. Student groups and professors celebrated Hamas’s attack and have since held antisemitic and anti-Israel […]
The leadership of the House of Representatives is preparing to look into the so-called gentleman’s agreement between former president Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the West Philippine Sea issue.
The New York State Capitol Building in Albany. A package floated on Friday would enact a new developer tax break while offering watered down “good cause” eviction protections. [ more › ]