Tag: New York City

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

Judge Says Law Allowing Non-Citizens to Vote is Unconstitutional

February 24, 2024 Steve MacDonald

My neighbors in Vermont passed a law allowing illegal aliens to vote in local elections, probably because all the cool progressive “kids” are doing it. Not far from the Green Mountains, New York City did something similar. Local Law No. 11, as it was called, would have stuffed ballot boxes with non-citizen votes.

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Night Cap: NYC Has F***** Itself With 350 Million Dollar Trump Ruling

February 21, 2024 Auntie Vaquser

The Machine Media is so busy engaging in a post-Trump 350+ Million dollar decision circle jerk they seem to have missed who got screwed. Donald Trump is going to appeal and win. It won’t even be close. The city used a political vendetta to attack a developer and was deliberately a public takedown.

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Progressive Energy Policy Is Going to Kill You – And Maybe That’s the Point

November 28, 2023 Steve MacDonald

To be clear, I use the word ‘maybe’ in the headline with a smirk. The political left would happily fundraise over your corpse if it would advance their agenda. Your death as a result of progressive policy is a win for them, even if you were a Democrat voter. They may not need you anymore, which should be of some concern.

Quit Your Bitching and Own It, and Then Do Something Different

November 17, 2023November 17, 2023 Steve MacDonald

American Exceptionalism isn’t or shouldn’t be the idea that because we are American, we are better. It is that, in America, we have left the door open to the opportunity to be exceptional, to be better, no matter what that means to any individual.

New York City Admits It Can’t Make EV Snowplows Work

November 11, 2023 Steve MacDonald

It’s been less than a year since our last report on the hurdles associated with “greening” winter road maintenance. In December of last year, the folks in New York City who are in charge of such things discovered that Electric Vehicles suck when it comes to snow removal but held out hope for a solution.

Did Biden Send the FBI “After” NYC Mayor Eric Adams For Bitching Too Much About the ‘Migrant Crisis™’

November 5, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The FBI recently showed up at the home of Brianna Suggs. She’s an associate of New York City Mayor Eric Adams. She’s also a fundraiser for a mayor who has been increasingly critical of the “migrant” situation and the impact it is having on his sanctuary city.

Overwhelmed NYC Offers “Migrants” Free One-Way Plane Ticket to Anywhere

October 31, 2023 Steve MacDonald

If you were thinking about traveling the world. Eric Adams and New York City have opened their own travel agency. An opportunity to get a one-way ticket to anywhere in the world as long as you don’t come back to New York City.

NYCs ‘Migrant Crisis’ Worsening Thanks to … The Salvation Army?

October 8, 2023 Steve MacDonald

News broke recently about New York City’s Growing Migrant Crisis (GMC). The Sanctuary City that never sleeps is feeling put out and seeking sanctuary from the teeming mass of Illegals landing on its ‘shores.’

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Leave George And Tom Alone, Tear Down Joe

September 22, 2023 Ray Cardello

Like the return of the Pumpkin Latte every Fall, the New York City Council convenes, and their first challenge to focus on is which statues need to be removed from the city.

As Dying Democrat Cities Poison the Rest of America

August 23, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Back in 2020, many months into the Left’s presidential campaign strategy doing business as the COVID pandemic and Peaceful Protests™, GraniteGrok predicted it could be the beginning of the end of big cities like New York.

Liberal Dem Donor Closes Businesses to Get Away from the By-Product of His Support for Open Borders

August 17, 2023 Steve MacDonald

One of modern history’s fastest “refugee” relocations happened when a small plane of illegal aliens touched down on Martha’s Vineyard. Within 36 hours, give or take; they’d been frog-marched away from the exclusive New England Isle of the Rich and Famous. New York City isn’t as lucky.

A Target On The Ice Cream Truck, What’s Next

August 8, 2023 Ray Cardello

With each headline or chyron across your TV screen, we wait for the next item or service that some Democrat wants to eliminate or restrict. I can envision these folks driving or walking the city streets, and rather than come up with a plan to get the homeless off the sidewalks, they are salivating about … Read more

NYC Ordinance Looks to Cut Waste – Ignores City Government Completely

August 1, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The City that never sleeps has a new ordinance on the books. It encourages fellow New Yorkers to rat out local businesses that hand out extra napkins, condiments, containers, or utensils without customers asking for them.

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New York City and American Express Are Going to Track Your Eating Habits

April 20, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The City of New York has a lot of problems, but Mayor Eric Adams has announced a new agreement between his administration and American Express. Together they will track your eating habits so the Carbon Cult can calculate CO2 emissions they will try to “reduce.”

Another Electric Vehicle Fail: NYC EV Trucks Run Out of Juice Plowing the Streets

December 31, 2022 Steve MacDonald

New York City uses its garbage trucks to plow snow. The Big Crapple is also hot to electrify the entire fleet, and why not? Who should be more climate #woke than the city that never sleeps? But someone is having nightmares after discovering the two are incompatible—electric trucks and plowing snow.

Busing Illegal Aliens to DC and NYC Is Shifting Public Opinion on Immigration

August 10, 2022 Op-Ed

During the runup to his 2016 presidential election victory, former President Donald Trump made illegal immigration and border security one of the primary aspects of his campaign’s platform. He would frequently encourage chants of “Build the Wall” at his rallies, and he wasn’t shy about calling out the problems America was facing due to the border crisis.

Democrat Mayors Cry Uncle

August 2, 2022 Ray Cardello

Mayors Bowser of Washington D.C. and Adams of New York are looking as foolish as politicians can look. They are getting a small taste of what the Border States have been enduring for eighteen months, and that snippet is not sitting well.

NY Judge Tells NYC That Letting Illegal Immigrants Vote “Legally” Violates the Constitution

July 18, 2022 Steve MacDonald

The promise of prolonged Democrat rule is a city in a ditch, on fire, with rampant crime and poop-covered streets. The product of decades of bad policy, broken promises, and corruption. But Democrats like ruling over ruin, and they’d do anything to keep it that way.

Can Anyone Defend NYC Drug Campaign

June 7, 2022 Ray Cardello

I saw the picture of the PSA drug poster currently being displayed on NYC subway cars, and I was disgusted. I cannot believe how low we have sunk as a society. Like we wake to a new record high gas prices, we also awake to the bar lowered by some government agency or party.