Politics

Hochul goes it alone on subway cops

With help from Shawn Ness

Gov. Kathy Hochul is deploying 1,000 state personnel to New York City subways amid pleas for increased subway safety funding from Mayor Eric Adams and a recent violent attack on a conductor.

In 2016, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo threw another stone in his tit-for-tat war with Mayor Bill de Blasio — he deployed hundreds of New York state troopers on de Blasio’s turf of New York City.

De Blasio blasted Cuomo for it.

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One-house budgets are coming

With help from Shawn Ness

Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins alluded the Senate's budget proposal will include changes to school funding.

Both houses of the state Legislature are planning to introduce their one-house budget proposals next Monday then pass them sometime before they adjourn for the week on March 14.

That will frame the debate around the $233 billion

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Biden’s State of the Union address is seriously high stakes

The State of the Union may be one of the most vastly overrated speeches in all of politics. But not this year.

The address President Joe Biden is set to deliver on Thursday night will come as the president faces intensifying worries about his age and

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Fighting the GOP Civil War, Texas Style

BEAUMONT, Texas — Forget the anti-climactic finale of the presidential primary, the most revealing Super Tuesday campaigns are taking place in Texas — and none more than in this swamp-and-refinery filled corner of the state, where the House speaker is at

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