Did Michelle Obama do a good job promoting her husband’s case for re-election?
Amid chants of “Four more years,” Michelle Obama made an impassioned plea to the nation to return the president to office for a second term. She said her husband “knows the American dream because he’s...
View ArticleAre you better or worse off than four years ago?
The answer to that question could determine the outcome of the presidential election. President Barack Obama says you are better off because he kept the abysmal economy he inherited from falling into a...
View ArticleShould the NFL bring back the regular referees?
Stalled contract negotiations between NFL owners and the league’s first-string referees this weekend contributed to what many football fans saw as an an errant call that handed the Seattle Seahawks an...
View ArticleShould Congress extend unemployment benefits?
More jobless people in New York will lose federal unemployment benefits than in any state but California if Congress doesn’t extend the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program by the end of...
View ArticleWas Superstorm Sandy really more destructive than Hurricane Katrina?
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday said Superstorm Sandy destroyed more homes (305,000 versus 214,700, according to his office), hit more businesses (265,300 versus 18,700) and cut power to more people (2.19...
View ArticleShould fast-food workers get $15 an hour?
Labor activists and workers staged a strike Thursday morning outside about 20 fast-food eateries in the city to step up their demands for a $15-an-hour wage. Many of these nonunion workers make about...
View ArticleWho won the fiscal cliff stare-down?
Congress has approved a deal reached by President Barack Obama and Senate leaders on new tax rates that averts the so-called fiscal cliff. Neither side got everything it sought. The president preserved...
View ArticleWhat’s the most important plank of Gov. Cuomo’s platform?
Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out an ambitious agenda in his annual State of the State address this month. Pleasing the political left, he unveiled proposals for gun control, decriminalizing low-level...
View ArticleShould the City Council prevent businesses from considering job applicants’...
The City Council is expected to pass a bill Wednesday to make it illegal for employers to base hiring decisions on an applicant’s employment status. The bill allows rejected applicants to sue on those...
View ArticleIs President Obama’s corporate tax plan a good one?
President Obama on Tuesday proposed spending more to create jobs, offering Republicans an overhaul of business taxes in exchange. The president said he is open to lowering the corporate tax rate to 28%...
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