Now it looks like the door is opening for sports betting at upstate casinos. When all else fails to bring economic vitality to upstate, bring on the betting.
Now the legislature has passed, and the governor has signed, a law that instructs judges, in the cases of crimes that do not involve actual violence, to free the accused without imposing bail.
Cuomo, people suspect, is still angry with the Working Families Party for endorsing a progressive primary opponent, Zephyr Teachout, in the past Democratic gubernatorial primary — just another example of his living up to the nickname I have attached to him: “Tough Guy Andrew.”
Andrew Cuomo got early lessons about the insidious anti-Italian prejudice that existed when his father Mario, a brilliant graduating law student, could not get a job interview with a prominent law firm in New York.
Three of the governor’s top people ended up being convicted of very serious crimes. Those crimes might well have been avoided had DiNapoli’s powers remained intact.
Glick is the chair of the Committee on Higher Education in the Assembly and she seems a little ticked off about a tuition assistance program that she believes doesn’t live up to its promises.
So if a judge declares that the so-called commission exceeded its authority to set limits on outside income and the commission didn’t have the right to take their lulus away, will Boss Heastie and his counterparts in the Senate have to give their newly elevated salaries back?
