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Author: Joseph Spector, Albany Bureau

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New York City cutting financial ties with Trump businesses after Capitol riot

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021Joseph Spector, Albany BureauComments Off on New York City cutting financial ties with Trump businesses after Capitol riot

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that the city would be ending three contracts with the Trump Organization after the riot last week.

Tech

Google, YouTube to pay record fine over privacy protections

September 4, 2019Joseph Spector, Albany BureauComments Off on Google, YouTube to pay record fine over privacy protections

Google and YouTube on Wednesday agreed to pay a record $170 million in a national settlement for violating the children’s online protection.

Nation

New York’s Medicaid bought erectile drugs for sex offenders

June 5, 2019Joseph Spector, Albany BureauComments Off on New York’s Medicaid bought erectile drugs for sex offenders

New York’s Medicaid program paid more than $60,000 for erectile dysfunction drugs and treatments for 47 sex offenders over a six-year period.

News

‘Cruel and unnecessary’: New York poised to become first state to ban cat declawing

June 4, 2019June 4, 2019Joseph Spector, Albany BureauComments Off on ‘Cruel and unnecessary’: New York poised to become first state to ban cat declawing

Cat declawing results in the permanent, surgical removal of most of the last boneandtendons, nerves and ligaments on the front feet of a cat.

News

3D-printed guns may soon be outlawed in New York under bill now before Gov. Andrew Cuomo

May 21, 2019Joseph Spector, Albany BureauComments Off on 3D-printed guns may soon be outlawed in New York under bill now before Gov. Andrew Cuomo

New York is poised to make undetectable guns, including 3D-printed guns, illegal.

Nation

Watch out! New York may ban texting while walking across the street

May 19, 2019Joseph Spector, Albany BureauComments Off on Watch out! New York may ban texting while walking across the street

New York may make it illegal to walk across the street and look at your phone at the same time.

News

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio enters crowded presidential field

May 16, 2019Joseph Spector, Albany BureauComments Off on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio enters crowded presidential field

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio entered the crowded Democratic presidential field, announcing his candidacy Thursday .

Money

NXIVM: Clare Bronfman, heiress to Seagram’s, pleads guilty in sex cult case

April 19, 2019April 19, 2019Joseph Spector, Albany BureauComments Off on NXIVM: Clare Bronfman, heiress to Seagram’s, pleads guilty in sex cult case

Clare Bronfman, a high-ranking member of the NXIVM cult and heiress to Seagram’s, is set to take a plea deal Friday.

Travel

Take an exclusive look inside New York’s largest waterpark, opening this week

April 15, 2019Joseph Spector, Albany BureauComments Off on Take an exclusive look inside New York’s largest waterpark, opening this week

The Kartrite, the largest waterpark in New York, is set to open Friday in the Catskills. Here’s what you need to know.

News

New York state Democrats join efforts to force release of Trump’s tax returns

April 8, 2019Joseph Spector, Albany BureauComments Off on New York state Democrats join efforts to force release of Trump’s tax returns

Some New York Democrats want to pass a state law that would force the release of President Donald Trump’s state taxes given that he is a New Yorker.

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