All news by author: Tim Hoefer

"We were never instructed on how to breathe," Mayor Eric Adams asserted on Tuesday, as he required all K-12 students to engage in two to five minutes of "mindful breathing" each day starting next year

A new budget projection shows the state expects expenses to outpace revenues by $9 billion beginning next April.

Gov. Kathy Hochul, who hasn’t proven shy about issuing orders, had one for the state’s Republicans this week — all 5.4 million of them: “Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?" she said. "You are not New Yorkers."

The highest court in New York has overturned the new congressional and state Senate district boundaries that state Democrats redrew to gain a political edge

The budget process was progressing well until Hochul and the Legislature brought in major, complex policy matters unrelated to the budget into the negotiations

So this is how democracy dies: with a cowardly surrender of responsibility, a censure of anyone not in a legislative supermajority and a feeble sigh of resignation.