The following is from the Wall Street Journal: The Paterson administration, under mounting pressure from county governments owed hundreds of millions of dollars by the state, is promising local officials that Albany will wipe out a backlog of unpaid bills by the end of August. The governor’s office made that assurance Monday as it sought […]

Brooklyn — Councilman David Greenfield today applauded the Taxi & Limousine Commission’s (TLC) Group Ride Vehicle Pilot Program, which will provide point to point, shared ride van service between specified pick up and drop off locations along former MTA bus routes. The program is slated to begin on or around August 16, 2010. Included in […]

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States remained at a “sustained and troubling” level in 2009, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which compiles annually a statistical audit

On Tuesday afternoon (July 27), all seven men who were on board an Israeli Air Force CH-53 series helicopter were R”L confirmed dead. The fatal helicopter crash which took place

In case you haven’t learned the hard way, dropping off your rental car at the airport with an empty tank can cost you more in gas than your airfare. The default rate for Avis at Newark Liberty International Airport, for example, is about $8 a gallon — that’s $96 for a 12-gallon tank, $10 more […]

Iran expects the United States to launch a military strike on “at least two countries” in the Middle East in the next three months, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told state-run

The Defense Department is unable to account for $8.7 billion of the $9.1 billion in Development Fund for Iraq monies in received for reconstruction in Iraq. This according to a

Military investigators are checking computers used by Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst charged this month with leaking classified information, to see if he is the source of thousands

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sent a warm thank you letter Chacham Ovadia Yosef in response to the latter’s “get well” card sent two weeks ago in the wake of reports of Mubarak’s deteriorating health. In the letter, addressed to “dear friend and great Rabbi Ovadia Yosef,” Mubarak commented on his health status as well as Israeli […]

The fix is in for cops who toss out tickets for friends and family. The NYPD has started tracking every summons electronically – even before officers hand them out on the street. “It used to be very easy to have a ticket taken care of,” said a police source familiar with the new system. “Someone […]

While the courts have been busy making decisions about digital rights, Washington has also been having its say on copyright law, at least as it relates to the iPhone and other handsets. Key new rules arrived Monday morning. Most notably, the FCC has made the controversial practice of “jailbreaking” your iPhone — or any other […]

As parents arrived early Monday morning to drop their kids off for summer camp at the B’Nai Shalom Synagogue in Olney, Md., they were greeted by a derogatory name for Jews spray-painted on the building. But the anti-Semitic vandalism didn’t stop there. Swastikas were spray-painted across the entire building and sidewalk and German references to […]

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich ripped State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo over the controversial plans to build a mosque near the World Trade center site. Appearing on Monday’s edition of

Officials in the United Arab Emirates have put the BlackBerry smartphone under review as potential national security threat, according to WAM, the UAE’s official state news agency. BlackBerry “operates beyond

Citigroup Inc. on Monday told its U.S. mobile banking customers they should upgrade to a new application designed for Apple’s iPhone after the bank’s original version was found to have

New York City – Today, Representative Anthony D. Weiner (D- Brooklyn and Queens), a member of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security and a representative from the Rego

The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado touched down in the Riverdale section of the Bronx Sunday during a powerful thunderstorm that knocked down dozens of trees and

•The Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats have said that they want to raise taxes in the top two income tax rates in January 2011.  Under their plan, the 33 percent rate will rise to 36 percent, and the 35 percent rate will rise to 39.6 percent automatically in January.  These rates affect families and small […]

An Israeli military helicopter with six Israeli soldiers and one Romanian on board has crashed in central Romania, the country’s defense ministry says. Spokesman Constantin Spanu said the CH-53 transport

This probably isn’t the first time you’ve heard someone ask if Jeb Bush is going to run for president. It won’t be the last. Political dynasties don’t just die off,