New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders have agreed on a package of gun control measures that includes banning the purchase of assault-style weapons to New Yorkers under the age of 21. The measures require that anyone who wants to purchase a semiautomatic rifle must first obtain a license, and the minimum age to buy it would be 21.
Assembly members protest planned Chick-fil-As in Thruway rest stops timesunion.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timesunion.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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This concludes Owl Week at the Naked Capitalism Water Cooler: A Great Grey Owl, Montana, along with what is either a very loud and persistent insect, or a drone!
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I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching. If we are in the eye of the storm, we are still in the eye of the storm.
Early in February, I said a simple way to compare Biden’s performance to Trump’s on vaccination would be to compare the slopes of the curves. If Biden accelerated vaccine administration, post-Inaugural slopes would get steeper. They have not. The fragmented, Federalized, and profit-driven lumbering monstrosity that we laughingly call our “health care” “system” has not responded to “energy in the executive,” but has continued on its inertial path.
59 New York Democrats issue joint letter calling in embattled Gov Andrew Cuomo to resign yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The joint letter marks the most significant pressure to date for Cuomo s ouster.
NY Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie issued an ominous statement shortly afterwards.
A group of 59 Democrats in New York s state legislature on Wednesday called for Gov. Andrew Cuomo s resignation.
Democrats from both the Assembly and Senate signed onto the joint letter, which demanded Cuomo step aside and allow Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul to serve for the remainder of his term, which expires at the end of 2022.
While Cuomo faces several major scandals simultaneously, the joint letter from lawmakers comes on the heels of the most serious allegation of sexual misconduct against Cuomo to date, with a sixth accuser reportedly telling her supervisor that the governor aggressively groped her in a sexually charged manner.