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MacDonald: Trump Trades Wind for Gas

May 25, 2025 Steve MacDonald

New York’s massive Empire Wind project has received the green light from the White House in exchange for the approval of two natural gas pipelines that would have to travel through New York State. When the news first broke that President Trump’s White House had agreed to let the offshore wind development proceed, I was … Read more

Legal Wrangle Over NYC’s Congestion Pricing Comes to a Head

March 27, 2025 John Klar

The court will settle the tussle between the New York governor and Trump. New York City has been torn apart by a protracted legal wrangle between President Donald Trump and New York Democrats over congestion pricing. Underlying the conflict is a tussle between equity and tax revenue, pitting progressive initiatives against the working class. The … Read more

The New Manhattan Island “Toll”

December 8, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The goal is to get people to give up their mobility, which coincides both practually and culturally with the idea of freedom—the right to travel without papers anywhere in the nation. But if you want to enter Manhattan, it will cost you a lot more, thanks to a new mobility control plan.

Gov Hochul’s Hitler Youth Program

November 29, 2023 Steve MacDonald

In my headline, I was going to suggest that what you are about to read was the first phase equivalent of New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s Hitler Youth program, but that ship sailed long ago. Schools have been cauldrons of partisan indoctrination for years. So what’s this then?

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Judge Says New York State’s Dept. of Health Can Have Its Quarantine Powers Back

November 26, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Frau Hocul and New York State’s Public Health Industrial Complex are celebrating a recent court win. A policy of forced quarantine that had been struck down as unconstitutional has been resurrected like some undead beast to feed on Lady Liberty.

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New York State Dems Ban Natural Gas in New Construction (Heat, Stoves, All of It!)

May 6, 2023 Steve MacDonald

In one of the finest examples of backward thinking Progressivism, the fuel responsible more than anything in the past two decades for lowering American emissions (if you still think that’s a thing we should do) was just banned by NY Democrats.

Australian quarantine facility (ABC News: Michael Franchi)

Judge Said No, But Heil Hochul Still Wants Her Public Health Detention Camps

March 20, 2023 Steve MacDonald

If British colonials tried to infect native populations by giving them blankets with smallpox, it was never formally attempted in the Americas, and there’s no evidence if tried that it worked. New York State, on the other hand, sent COVID infected into nursing homes.

Who’s Left? Nobody

September 25, 2022September 25, 2022 Op-Ed

I’m growing tired of Democrats heaping their opprobrium on the Granite State when it comes to the whole early primary bagatelle of a fraud of a hoax of a sham.