New York's renewed effort to collect taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products sold by Indian-operated companies has led to seizures of $1.2 million worth of untaxed tobacco products in the last three weeks outside Indian land.
Commissioner Joe Martens spoke on Friday saying, “I believe it (fracking) can be done safely. With all the precautions that we have built into the process I believe it can be done safely.”
The Testing the Waters report monitors bacteria levels in beach water throughout the country. It ranked the thirty Coastal and Great Lakes states. It also named Superstar Beaches, that scored perfectly, and repeat offenders that have continually scored poorly.
A tearful admission Monday afternoon from New York Congressman Anthony Weiner that he did indeed send a racy photo of himself to a college student in Seattle over a week ago.
If you rented a car recently, you could have been driving a lemon. Currently, car rental agencies are allowed to rent vehicles that have been recalled by their manufacturers.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says 46 drivers of tour buses, buses and taxis are being charged with holding commercial licenses even though they had other licenses suspended under different names.
Nearly $800 million in federal money will be used to upgrade high speed rail service on the Northeast corridor. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the improvements will save passengers thousands of traveling hours.
This week's show is all about making "a brand new start of it, in old New York." Our guests include Rob Silverman, the author of a new book called New York, New York: So Good They Named It Twice An Irreverent Guide to Experiencing and Living in the Greatest City in the World.
The organizations Hispanic Mental Health Professionals, Latino Commission on AIDS and the Hispanic Federation oppose parts of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Medicaid overhaul in his proposed state budget that will force managed care.
The Democratic governor's bill, the Redistricting Reform Act of 2011, is the latest push against the Senate’s Republican majority, which had been Cuomo’s earliest and strongest supporter for his economic platform.
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